Triple trunk Cas..styling help needed.

[bodhidharma]

A while ago somebody posted a Triple trunk Juniper? or pine and said it would be a great style for a Casuarina. I agreed and I did the groundwork last year and now cannot find the post Should have bookmarked it. If anyone can remember it or if the poster is still active it would be great to find it. The back of my head says it was Graeme but i am not sure. I will wait with baited breath folks and see if this great site delivers.

[Josh]

Hi Bodhi, I had a look but the only thread I could find was a pine style but not triple trunk.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10688&p=113295&hili ... na#p113295
That was the thread. I couldn't find anything else after typing multiple phrases in the search. Maybe someone else will find it. Interested to see where you go with this.

Josh

[bodhidharma]

Thanks Josh, but no, not the one. The setting was a triple trunk and facing the same way as my design. We will keep looking as it was definitely the direction i want to head.

[Gerard]

I like the technique using heavy wire and cable ties, casuarinas are so difficult to wire without damaging the branches.
Styling, at this stage I would concentrate on making trees of 3 different heights and correspondong thicknesses.
Chop the left back hard the right halfway and the centre only a little.
After a year or two when thicness varies between the trunks cut them all much harder to establish your desired heights.

[bodhidharma]

Whoa.. 140 views and nobody remembers I am still trolling through threads and am now starting to teeter on the edge of reality and insanity