Field maple pruning?
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Shibui
Imperial Masterpiece
To answer the question we need to know what you want to achieve. Different horses for different courses.
In my experience, Field maple don't ramify particularly well. Long internodes and sparse branching is pretty par for these.
In my experience, Field maple don't ramify particularly well. Long internodes and sparse branching is pretty par for these.
Hghhhhhhh
Seedling
I have no clue what do you recommend i should do? i was just going to keep somewhat like this picture. But if you have any other suggestions please let me know
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jeremy_norbury
Omono
Lol, that's my tree - I grew it.
It started out as a pencil thick seedling I found somewhere and I planted it out in a garden bed sometime before 2000.
I let it grow to over 2m tall and chopped it hard in about 2003.
After that it was all about just letting it grow and building ramification.
Here's an album of photos starting AFTER the chop.
It started out as a pencil thick seedling I found somewhere and I planted it out in a garden bed sometime before 2000.
I let it grow to over 2m tall and chopped it hard in about 2003.
After that it was all about just letting it grow and building ramification.
Here's an album of photos starting AFTER the chop.
Hghhhhhhh
Seedling
Oh wow any suggestions or tips to make my tree kinda look like yours? Like what were the things you were looking for while you building your tree’s ramification?
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jeremy_norbury
Omono
You've got to let them get big before you make them small.
At the point you chop them, they stop growing (effectively).
At the point you chop them, they stop growing (effectively).
Shibui
Imperial Masterpiece
So that's what I mean about knowing what you want in order to decide what to do to achieve it.
If you were happy to keep a skinny trunk with a rounded canopy I would have said just trim any bits that grow long.
Jeremy's tree has a thick trunk - no scale in the pic but compare the leaf size with trunks in your pic and his.
To achieve that you have several choices:
1. keep trimming and wait 30 -40 years
2. Do what Jeremy did. Note that all trees that are fast grown don't end up as great trees. There are things that can go wrong. I'd estimate around 20%-50% failure rate so I always encourage people to start 2 or 3 in the hope of ending up with 1 good one.
