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Posted by
betula_pondula (
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Fri, Apr 11, 08 at 12:35
| i am curious if anyone can tell me when the best time to trim the deadwood off a wild silver birch would be?The tree was transplanted about a month ago.The tree has taken to transplant well and is growing healthy vegitation but still looks too cluttered because there are two dead trunks from possibly old branches but they were growing right near the base where the alive trunk is coming out of the soil, therefore im not sure if it would injure the live trunk from cutting/trimming too deep into the dead ones to remove them. any recomendations? |
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RE: silver birch deadwood
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| to see pictures click on the link below |
Here is a link that might be useful: click here
RE: silver birch deadwood
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| Dead is dead - it doesn't matter when you do it. BTW betula - that link doesn't work. |
RE: silver birch deadwood
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| sorry for the bad link here is a picture of two weeks growth. 
and this is a picture of the deadwood on the on the left and the right. the center is the live trunk
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RE: silver birch deadwood
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| Leave a stub, and carve it into a tapered look, so it doesn't just look 'cut off', but is more graceful. |
RE: silver birch deadwood
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| thanks i'll try that, also do you know if i can do the same with the deadwood on the branches of the canopy? |
RE: silver birch deadwood
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| Why not? Well, you can do it, but you may or may not want to. Carving is more traditionally used on conifers (pine, larch, fir), so if that matters to you (being traditional about bonsai) then you may not choose to do it, but others have and if they do a good job it doesn't look terrible at all, though possibly a little strange. However, why not just cut the unwanted parts off flush with the trunk (or branches) with a concave cutter? Why not Google 'bonsai' with 'jin' and 'shari' (the terms for carving) and learn more about them? |
RE: silver birch deadwood
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| i'll deffinately look up on the carving. thnx for the advice, ill keep posted on the pics. |
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