Eucalyptus niphophila sacrifice branch

[Sno]

I got this tree from my local nursery about 3 years ago . It was growing root bound in a 12 inch pot and was a couple of meteres high . I did a major root reduction and chopped it back to the nearest branch before putting it into a garden sieve . I've done this with quite a few Eucs and it works well . This year I let a branch run till today I chopped it . The branch grew to about 2.5 ms. For the amount of growth the trunk didn't really thicken to much .

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This tree has a beautiful lime green new foliage .

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The branch that was kept after the original chop died off ,future Jin

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Cheers Sno

[delisea]

Hi Sno, is now a good time to trunk chop eucs? I have a couple of angophoras that have put good summer growth but thought I would need to put off the chop until spring.
Cheers Symon

[Sno]

Hi delisea . I would leave trunk chopping till spring . What I chopped off was a branch . The reasons why I chopped it off now was it was becoming the main trunk and the other branches and trunk were losing vigor . Hope that makes sense .

[delisea]

Yes that makes perfect sense. Do use wire?

[GavinG]

Thanks for posting. We just don't know which species thicken quickly, and which stay spindly, until someone posts their results. The blue-grey tones are quite lovely. The dead branch is looking "natural" already. Probably should be a feature of every Euc. bonsai.

Gavin

[Sno]

Yes that makes perfect sense. Do use wire?

Sometimes but quite loosely and not for long when they are growing .

Thanks for posting. We just don't know which species thicken quickly, and which stay spindly, until someone posts their results. The blue-grey tones are quite lovely. The dead branch is looking "natural" already. Probably should be a feature of every Euc. bonsai.

Gavin

Thanks Gavin. It was interesting to see how big I could get the branch to grow with out letting the roots escape . I will repot it in the spring and start again . The roots will be interesting to see what they have done too .