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I have a number of trees in my growing bed including tridents and Jap maples, Chinese quince, zelkova, and Korean hornbeams. What strategies do you usually follow for developing trees in the ground? For example do you let them extend then cut them back each year or just let them grow until they are the desired girth? Do you dig them each year and work on the root system or just let them do their thing? How much styling do you actually do at this stage of development? Do you do any wiring other than creating movement in the main stem? Mine have been in the ground 2 years so I figure they will need at least 3 more but I don’t want to ignore them or overdo along the way.