AusBonsai

Hello! I’d like your opinion on this ginkgo which I was keeping for cutting to make a forest... looking at it today without leaves it screamed clump style to me ... what do you think? I’m planning to shorten all the branches and then start ramifications...




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At present it looks like one trunk with lots of suckers. In order to pull off the clump one dominant trunk can be a problem, consider reducing the number to about 5 leaving one or two of the larger suckers to grow freely to catch up with the main trunk a bit and reduce a couple of suckers to emphasise the variation in thicknesses after a couple of years adjust the heights in accordance with the thicknesses.

Thanks Gerard, I will let all the suckers grow so they increase in size to match the middle trunk, I want to create a mini flame style ginkgo, it will take many years but I do love the leaves of this species so much and it is a prehistoric plant so fascinating!