Ideas for this maple stump
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peterb
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Ideas for this maple stump
Hi everyone, been a while since I've posted anything. I had the privilege to collect this maple today. Neighbour was getting rid of all the trees in his back garden. I know it's a bit early here in the UK but neighbour wanted it gone. It's in the greenhouse so hopefully it'll be fine. If it survives what suggestions are there for a direction.
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Re: Ideas for this maple stump
Hi Peter
The third photo shows a pretty good front I think. If it were mine I'd put it in a decent sized pot to allow the trunk continuations to thicken before cutback.
Cheers
The third photo shows a pretty good front I think. If it were mine I'd put it in a decent sized pot to allow the trunk continuations to thicken before cutback.
Cheers
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Re: Ideas for this maple stump
Pop it in a grow pot, let it get healthy and shoot dormant buds and slowly work on easing the taper especially on the thick lower trunk (right hand side in 3rd photo) as I think that’s going to be your biggest issue going forward is making a nice transition in that thick secondary trunk
