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Mon, Nov 21, 11 at 21:38
| Hello, new to bonsai and here. Looking for suggestions on what to do with my dwarf pomegranate tree. It is 4 years old and little over 4 feet tall including pot. I re potted it this past spring and it grew like crazy. Now after its fall leaf drop it is looking pretty bare and I would like to start pruning/ shaping it to around 2 feet tall. How aggressive should I be when pruning? And how do you know which branches are best to be kept? |
Here is a link that might be useful: image of its current state
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- Posted by wizzard419 none (My Page) on Tue, Nov 22, 11 at 2:12
| If I recall, it can do well with the cascade method. Another one I've seen, you would need an older tree to start with this style, is to have the main trunk going horizontal (half buried in the soil) with the branches coming off forming small trees. |
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| First off I would visualise how you would like the tree too look when its finished. Look at other trees draw pictures etc.. to get the image in your head. After you have that accomplished the first thing I would do is allow the tree to grow almost completely unchecked until you have a sufficient trunk diameter to that of which you would like to have when the tree is finished this is the most time consuming stage of development but can be mostly bypassed by purchasing advanced tree stock that already has good trunk girth. I would recommend reading over Harry Harrington's website as well as Brent Walston's site in articles under trunk developing (towards the bottom of the page) http://www.evergreengardenworks.com/index.htm |
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