Sunday, April 19, 2009

Maple's First Pruning

Today I decided to do some pruning to the new maple tree.
Based on everything I have read, it's not advised to prune newly planted trees in order to let them build up strength after the shock of transplanting. However, since this was a container-grown tree (ie, not dug up and transplanted) and because it has multiple leading stems, I decided to prune a few of the stems.
The objective was to establish a single dominant leader.

Before:


After (hard to tell the difference, but look at the top):

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