AusBonsai

I am not condoning this method or refuting it, simply came across it and thought it to be of use perhaps to the broader community.
I captured this in Rockhampton in a front yard, the elderly gentleman was of Indo/Asian descent and could not speak or understand a word of English so questions regarding this method was very limited.
If the photos don't show it, seems the procedure is to drill a hole the same thickness of the wire you are about to use just below or beside the branch about to be wired. It seems also this techniques was for green shoots not established hard wood branches as this was the only shoots available on this young cut stump. Shape the wire to the line of new branch direction that you wish, and then in places, bind the new green shoot to the guideline of wire. Does that make sense? hopefully the photos will. Anyhooo....... if it helps someone or opens up a line of discussion, all good,
thanks for reading
Watty

It reminds me of a wiring method I saw for swamp cypress. Like the boug in this thread, swampies have fat trunks. Rather than anchor the wire around the trunk, the person pressed the end of the wire into the trunk above the branch. This gave a downward leverage point for the wire. The end of the wire had a dog leg in it where it went from the branch to the trunk. This added the tension on the wire.

Best explanation I can do without a picture.

I am confused as to why it would be necessary
I have wired and bent many bougy, and so long as you do it early enough before the wood lignifies it is easy as pie.
The advantage is once the wood lignifies then it is set for life.

IMHO much easier and quicker to slap on a few turns around the branch and bend.
The are many ways to anchor a wire too and drilling a hole in the trunk seems a little bit harder to me and the tree has to repair that damage after.

Again not hard to wrap a quick wrap around the trunk or other branch

Ken

SteveW wrote:It reminds me of a wiring method I saw for swamp cypress. Like the boug in this thread, swampies have fat trunks. Rather than anchor the wire around the trunk, the person pressed the end of the wire into the trunk above the branch. This gave a downward leverage point for the wire. The end of the wire had a dog leg in it where it went from the branch to the trunk. This added the tension on the wire.

Best explanation I can do without a picture.

I saw this on a video on youtube. If I remember right it was about saving wire and looking tidier. The guy had a huge trunk and this technique was to avaoid having wire coiling up it. Does that sound right?

NAHamilton wrote:

SteveW wrote:It reminds me of a wiring method I saw for swamp cypress. Like the boug in this thread, swampies have fat trunks. Rather than anchor the wire around the trunk, the person pressed the end of the wire into the trunk above the branch. This gave a downward leverage point for the wire. The end of the wire had a dog leg in it where it went from the branch to the trunk. This added the tension on the wire.

Best explanation I can do without a picture.

I saw this on a video on youtube. If I remember right it was about saving wire and looking tidier. The guy had a huge trunk and this technique was to avaoid having wire coiling up it. Does that sound right?

Aesthetics and saving a bit of wire would be the only reason I could think of.
Looking tidier IMHO does not matter on my own trees and we never show a tree with wire on so not really my concern.
Saving wire may have merit, but with the larger bend it would be easily reusable

Ken