Ben and Luke (Ulmus Parvifolia)

ConorDash · Mar 30, 2018

Some pruning done to these guys, pruned back hard, as I believe Elms benefit from this greatly.
Overall this has been quite useful for me.. Finally doing stuff and not reading it online. I have cut back, looking at movement of the branches, thickness, thinking of the next branch to grow and what area it will fill.
Rule of thumb is all cut back to 2internodes and will continue this in mid summer, along with perhaps some air wiring of young green shoots for movement straight away.

Ben:

@Vin @sorce (these branches are still there

, FOR NOW, sorry!)

(I really like this last pic view).

These 2 elms are nothing award winning but I do love them, I think they are great little trees. The smaller one has a great nebari, bigger one great bark and both should get nicely developed branching, if I succeed!

ConorDash · May 13, 2018

And boom, growth. Elm style.

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Davidlpf · May 18, 2018

In the pruning, I would have gone further, remember: Do, or do not, there is no try!

As you know the force is strong in the elms family so in the development stage: Use the force....

don't rely too much in that bark, It'll fall apart sooner or later, let it go because the fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side.

you have much to learn young padawan

ConorDash · May 18, 2018

Davidlpf said:
In the pruning, I would have gone further, remember: Do, or do not, there is no try!

As you know the force is strong in the elms family so in the development stage: Use the force....

don't rely too much in that bark, It'll fall apart sooner or later, let it go because the fear of loss is a path to the Dark Side.

you have much to learn young padawan

Cool I get the jokes, cheers.

I took a lot off the first time, I think I’d have wasted the grow season by removing more.

ConorDash · May 19, 2018

Tried pruning some of the extra growth today but it’s so dense, can hardly see anything I’m doing...
Wanted to try air wiring, as suggested in Colin Lewis’ book.

ConorDash · Jun 2, 2018

Just a simple before and after:

ConorDash · Jun 9, 2018

Both have been pruned, looking a lot better now.
Few years of this clip and grow and I think they will look like great little elms.

ConorDash · Jul 1, 2018

These guys sit out in 26-30c, full sun temps at the moment and their growth and leaves are only showing signs of amazing health.. Really strong green growth and sprouting from everywhere.

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ConorDash · Dec 9, 2018

Little update (more perhaps for me than others, unsure how followed this thread is!).
Its always pot luck as to which of the elms drops leaves and which doesn't, but these colours look awesome.

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ConorDash · Mar 24, 2019

These guys are good to go for the year:

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ConorDash · Mar 24, 2019

And this little one...

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Should get a nice image out of all of them this year, nice ramified canopies.

ConorDash · Jun 1, 2019

Updates. Looking at previous pics, in this thread, the leaves look to have reduced in size again this year. They are stupidly tiny.. I can't imagine leaves of any other species, ill ever own, being this small. They don't need to be smaller!
Some comparison pics with a sharpie and my finger, to show size.

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Upskirt picture:

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ConorDash · Jun 1, 2019

There's also the ugly duckling of the 3 Elms, with stupid tiny leaves..
Ill admit he doesn't get as much of my attention as I find his trunk more boring (sorry)

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Do you remember these guys still, @BobbyLane ?

BobbyLane · Jun 1, 2019

ConorDash said:
There's also the ugly duckling of the 3 Elms, with stupid tiny leaves..
Ill admit he doesn't get as much of my attention as I find his trunk more boring (sorry)

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Do you remember these guys still, @BobbyLane ?

looking very healthy mate...
i only remember them as part of the forest, maybe one day you can use them as part of a new forest, this is what can be done with mallsai elms

ConorDash · Jul 21, 2019

I should have pruned these guys sooner... the dense branches and tiny leaves make pruning a real struggle! Just under 2 hours pruning ONE OF THEM!

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I want to just briefly have a moan about how tiny these leaves are and how difficult it is to follow a branch and finding where to cut..

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My finger is behind that foliage.. I'm definitely cutting sooner next time.

I feel like these trees aren't quite progressing as fast as they could be.. I'm looking for suggestions as to what I could be doing wrong or perhaps not as efficiently as I could be.

BobbyLane · Jul 21, 2019

still think you should use these and maybe more to create a mine c elm forest. would of kept mine if i had the space and made it much better.

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actually, these two here aren't a bad shout to repot, move them together as one entity. give the impression of a twin trunk. ive always wanted to try this, but would need the right trunks to compliment each other. these two would work

ConorDash · Jul 27, 2019

Second one pruned now. A nightmare pruning such a small tree when wet.. it has too much crap all over it and it sticks in the wet..

Next time I’m pruning way sooner and thus more frequent. Hopefully means less dead crap to clean out of them as I go. I think I need to start thinking of ramification technique, not standard pruning.

ConorDash · Mar 15, 2020

These 2 guys got repotted, thankfully, in to different pots this time... 2 trees same pot was an annoying thing to deal with but they grew extremely strongly, so no big deal.
They certainly needed the repot though!

https://imgur.com/V1bBwJM

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So.. I cut the brick in half, no messing about..

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More could have been removed, and I will do.. I have bought some final pots for them but they were too small so I have done this repotting now, will buy the right pots and slip pot back in after.

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I cut off a good amount of roots and put in to temporary pots for now. The trees look much better when alone in their own pots.

https://imgur.com/5PVKqoZ
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The white pot is only a temporary one but honestly, not bad looking in the shape and depth of pot.. the white is just too much, but good shape.

ConorDash · Mar 22, 2020

Ignore the pot above... I bought a new pot and put one of the CE in it.. I actually love it. I love the pot and I think they look great together, its the perfect size.. Im really happy with everything about it!

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