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Yeah I thought this might be the case. It's a young maple. I had pruned it back to that point a couple of years ago but obviously didn't do the best job.Ryceman3 wrote:I agree with Mel. Although I think you can heal that scar out in the long term, I think the best bonsai move regardless is ... Cut at the red line, look to the green line for movement and hope some stuff happens like the yellow line.
“What kind of tree is this?”
Yeah I can see that now after not doing it properly originallyTimS wrote:
Japanese Maple have thin bark, so any ugly wounds will heal over ugly and just look ugly generally for an exceptionally long time.
So once it has stopped its die back and i cut it flush it won't try and die back further?? Then do I do a slight concave finish to improve the roll over growth??TimS wrote: When you have young material like this the best bet is to cut it off leaving a little stub to die back naturally and then once it has died off you can flush cut it for it to heal over smoothly.
My thoughts exactly, thanks for your inputTimS wrote: There are many decades ahead for this to become a bonsai, so you may as well start off on right foot rather than having to cut it back later down the track anyway.
Mitch_28 wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2020, 1:39 pmIf you let the stub die back naturally, it will compartmentalise at the next branch or bud below the cut and you should not get any further die back after removing the stub. If you flush cut back straight away, there is a possibility that the compartmentalising will happen at a bud or branch further back than the branch you wanted. Hence best to leave the stub and let it die back to the branch naturally.TimS wrote:So once it has stopped its die back and i cut it flush it won't try and die back further?? Then do I do a slight concave finish to improve the roll over growth??TimS wrote: When you have young material like this the best bet is to cut it off leaving a little stub to die back naturally and then once it has died off you can flush cut it for it to heal over smoothly.
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I have a shishigashira young air layer that did exactly that, i cut back too close to the branch i wanted, and it has died back below it to a new bud on the trunk. Now i have to grow the bud out to be a branch rather than using the branch that was already there.
The die back will be to the next junction between trunk and branch (sometimes referred to as the “collar”). Once it occurs you can concave cut at that point the following year. All things being equal it won’t continue to die back from that point.
