Hey Stephen, a buddy and I have been doing a lot of experimenting with local loblolly. It seems like they follow very closely with the standard black pine techniques and schedule for work.
We have chopped dozens of trunks, cut back hard, the responses have been tons of back budding, and very vigorous growth. The trees we are working are planted in the ground, in grow bags and seem to be doing extremely well. The responses we’ve seen are very exciting and we’re looking forward to working these pines. We’ve also seen needle reduction of 3/4, which is exciting too!
Not sure I would do the wedge bends on your tree, the movement looks pretty good - my debate is would such a dramatic procedure improve the tree enough to warrant the years of recovery?
Good luck - grab some more to experiment with!
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