Elongating species prune and repot

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Hi,

Just watched this video lecture. Ryan mentione if strength comes from the vascular system we can either:

Repot heavy - no heavy prune
Heavy prune - no repot

I watched this over a few times now but i’m just making it more confusing for myself. I’m hoping someone can explain this very easily for me?

And what does this also hold true for pines where strength comes from the roots?

Thanks

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I think the general rule is regardless of the type of tree.
Heavy prune/ style then wait a year to repot
Repotted recently then wait a year to heavy style/prune.

So lets say you do a heavy style in the spring, if the tree recovers well you could repot the following spring.

Or vise versa

Everything takes time to recover.
If the tree doesn’t recover well and show good growth and strength then you may have to wait 2 years.

It depends a lot on how the tree reacts to what happened to it.

But I am no expert so I am sure someone more knowledgeable will post.
The style and repot that is common in demos and on YouTube is not the healthiest way to approach things, and it really only has a high success rate with young, strong material

Good luck

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One major insult a year.decent over arching guideline!

If you repot, that’s it until it recovers (ideally one year).

If you style, that’s it for the year…until it recovers. (Ideally one year)

Nursery stock typically you want to repot first so you can use the foliage to drive root recovery.

Yes pines strength comes from its roots but that doesn’t mean you can have multiple injuries in the same year and get away with it.

The hardest thing to learn for me was that the more we work on trees that are not ready (built up/extremely vigorous) the slower the build process is in he long run.

Trying to save a few months on a multi year project comes back to cost you additional years or you lose the tree. Hope this helps. I won’t be cliche and say practice patients instead buy so many nursery stock trees that you can’t over love them all. As your practice and skills develop you can think the heard and dial in the quality of the trees.

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