hey lucas
i love baekea
i only have one and its very small and no where near as impressive as yours haha
but i did do some research and got some good advice on here about them and
i do remember reading that most people when dealing with a tree like this one
that they use a hedging style approach when trimming the foliage
which it give a lovely smooth nice neat shape and thats fine for getting that shape initially
but later on the canopy will get very dense and the inner growth will weaken and die
and to have a convincing looking canopy it needs to be thinned out and the general rules apply
no crossing branches, growing under another branch so on and so forth
so if it were mine i would clean out the fine inner dead branches
then figure out what you want the canopy to eventually look like
then trim any foliage that is growing out of your final 'vision'
using the hedge style approach until your happy with the way it looks
then refine the branch structure and thin it out to let light into the inner growth
which will balance the vigour of the canopy
i hope this helps and if anyone else has a better approach i would be very interested in hearing as well
cheers
matt
“The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.”
― Vincent van Gogh
