Wiring Advice for Noobs

[Glenda]

Hi people,
I thought I would pass this on for noobs like me so they don't make the same mistake.

I wired some movement into the trunk of this liquidambar only 6 (repeat six) weeks ago. I wired it loosely - I could even move the skinny trunk around inside the wire, and the trunk could even still move in the breeze. Yesterday I checked the wiring to find this

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I also have a very small trident maple that was given to me. Everyone else tells me they do not grow up here, even though this one lost all its leaves last winter and has never looked back. It was wired at the same time as the liquidambar, and today I checked it too to find

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My advice to beginners like myself is check your wiring every week!

My question for more experienced bonsaiers is: Will the wire marks grow out?

Glenda

[rch003]

Yeah they grow out within a couple years
Watched a video from Hoy Kwong doing a fig tree and he left the scares on the tree and said they will grow out

http://www.bonsaisouth.com.au/cms3/inde ... &Itemid=75

[Ozmad]

hi glenda
being young tree's it'll grow out. If this was branches on a developed tree you would be struggling to grow it out. At this time of year when plants are growing fast you can almost re-wire a tree every week, specially the fast grow tree's like elms, maples and figs. Other types of tree's like a azalea's, that scarring would be almost impossible to remove.
But i do know that a lot of nurseries wire young black pines( that a finger think in the trunks) around the trunks till the wire cuts in deeper that whats in your picture, then the next year they wire the tree again in the opposite direction till the wire has cut in deep. They do this to quicken the thickening of the trunk. I have done this to a few black pines myself and it works very well.

[Fish]

I agree with Ozmad, I have read consistently that if there are wire cuts, next time counter wind the plant to reduce the definition of the cuts, and they will disappear quicker. All the best

Also I was actually reading this post this morning, good little read.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6644

Fish