Very nice!
Most of that shari has been there a while - natural but undiscovered. When I got it home, I lifted what looked like a small patch of dead bark near the base, and it peeled almost away all the way up the trunk! It is well healed on both sides.
Oh, and yes - my hands are a mess.
Thanks. I'm growing to like them too.
Cool...predestined to be styled as so. Then it should be fine. Which I'm glad. It really looks cool!
Depends on what you are trying to keep alive... If you are extending the Shari all the way down the trunk, trying to not lose any branches and there has been no deadwood previously, you would be wise to do it in little pieces, then leave the tree to heal a while before connecting them... If there was already deadwood going down the trunk, and you are just extending it on the same vein, you can do a lot more in one sitting.
Yes, three so far, probably more to come. They've been my weekly "homework"
Hey, there are six branches on there! Haha. You're right though - in fact, I wanted to remove at least one or two more, but figured I should wire them for practice first! I'll leave them for now and let the poor thing recover either way.
