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Hi Bretts , it was planted out 13-14 years ago, possible trimmed once in the ground then forgotten .It is 2.5 m high but has a sucker 3.0m high , the trunk is around 120mm with a base around ground level of 150mm, leaves are max' 50mm on average 35-40mm and slightly smaller then marble size fruit unlike the street scape trees here . It has been growing in sticky red clay with no fertilizer , watering or trimming during its garden stay .Cheers Alpine

I know it is early days with this one Bretts, but how is it going? Has the trunk burst with new shoots and is it now growing well?
I was also wondering if you have pruned back some of the bare branches that you left on after collection now that you have new growth?
So I guess I am trying to ask if you are just letting the growth go at this stage (letting it recover after collection), or are you doing some shoot/branch selection even if minimal?
Cheers, Dario.

Hi Dario
It has lots of new shoots but they are mostly still very young and I haven't touched it again but I did take a little more wood of than pictured in the original collection I think. I will get a pic when I get back in a few days. One night stop over at home today

Thanks Bretts, look forward to seeing it!
Cheers, Dario.

Snapped a quick pic of this one for you too Dario. Would be a good time to start moving it back into full sun I think. If only I could find the room

Wow Bretts, that is bursting with new shoots! I haven't seen any larger/older Lilly Pilly's in person such as this,and I really like the detail of the aged bark on the lower trunk!
This is going to be a ripper, thanks for the pic!
Cheers, Dario.

Collected just over a year ago it was now time for some decisions, I decided to get rid of more wood for a more classical design.

Hi Bretts , mate its coming up a treat ,obviously it has a good root mass to support that growth where mine is lacking roots .

Cheers Alpine

Thanks for updating Brett, looks great!
It has a very nice structure:tu2:
Cheers, Dario.

Looking good!

Now where were we ?

Strong growth... Mine are just pushing out another flush of growth with this warm weather.... Are you going to trim?

Yes I was about to get stuck in for a trim and a wire but then we got visitors

Hi Brett,
I remember seeing this tree back in 2011 when you collected it and thinking what a nice piece of raw material it is. Nothing has changed since then, but I have to ask whether you will remove the oversize branches and start fresh. To me the first and second branches are already too heavy and I could easily argue that number one is poorly located too. On vigorous material such as this, if you were to regrow branches from scratch, you could potentially have a tree that features a beautiful flowing trunk with very good taper, without the distraction of blocky, overly heavy primary branching. It's taken 16 years for the trunk to reach that stage and 2 years in recovery for it to get where it is now.

Surely 4-5 years making potentially great primary and secondary branches is a worthy investment and something that you are easily capable of.
I hope that you give this your consideration.



Cheers,
Mojo

have missed this one in the past.
Its looking real good brett!!!
fantastic trunk and the basic structure is looking good to me.
looking forward to more updates

Hugh