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Re: The Japanese maple story continues..The trunk bend
Posted: May 29th, 2010, 2:26 pm
by Bretts
Dam longest sentence in history just disappeared. Try again
I have not heard of any of the trees from Leongs Videos dieing so I guess the odds are in his favour over this one making it as well.
From discussions with him he uses a very well thought out horticultural understanding of what the tree can take and how it will best recover through these processes.
The guy is good
Has he ever done a demonstration out of the Nursery?
Re: The Japanese maple story continues..The trunk bend
Posted: May 29th, 2010, 2:31 pm
by bodhidharma
kcpoole wrote:Hi Bodhi
a question I have been asking myself lately re making large bends on trees
Should we try "dry them out somewhat" before hand to reduce the moisture in the tree?
I have heard that if possible reduce the amount of water in the tree ( without killing it first), by reducing watering over a few days before the operation. So the theory goes, this tends to make the process more successful by reducing the brittleness and minimizing the chance of breakage
Apparently this applies to any variety of tree too
Anyone else have ideas?
Ken
G'day Ken, Yep i knew that and the tree had only minimal water to create Autumn colour and then i waited a couple of days without water before i did this. The idea is to do the bending over winter while it gets minimal water doing one turn per week until i am happy with the movement.
Re: The Japanese maple story continues..The trunk bend
Posted: May 29th, 2010, 2:37 pm
by bodhidharma
Bretts wrote:Dam longest sentence in history just disappeared. Try again
I have not heard of any of the trees from Leongs Videos dieing so I guess the odds are in his favour over this one making it as well.
From discussions with him he uses a very well thought out horticultural understanding of what the tree can take and how it will best recover through these processes.
The guy is good
Has he ever done a demonstration out of the Nursery?
I have never met the man Bretts. A friend of mine on the Sunshine coast sat in on one of his workshops at Tess's and was high in his praise of him.
Re: The Japanese maple story continues..The trunk bend
Posted: May 29th, 2010, 5:58 pm
by kcpoole
Thanks Bodhi
I will wait till my JRM goes to sleep eventually, and then dry it before doing any major works
Ken