February 12, 2021 by Jonas Dupuich 7 Comments
It’s been fun watching the branches develop on some of the older pines I’ve grown from seed.
When these trees are healthy, it only takes a few years to reduce the internode length and fill out the basic silhouette. The main challenge at this stage is managing the tree’s vigor to reliably produce two shoots per branch after decandling.
The tree below is a good example of how much the internode length can be reduced over the course of a year. Here’s the tree before decandling last summer (see “Refining a 15 year-old pine” for photos of the previous year’s work).
Japanese black pine – June, 2020
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