AusBonsai

I recently needed to bend a branch on one of my trees and could not really use wire coiled around the branch as it would eventually cut into the bark which in my opinion was still a bit tender. I guess I could have used vet wrap but this would have prevented new shoots from possibly emerging in that area. So to cut a long story short I used a guy wire. In order to prevent it cutting into the branch (Seeing as it is going to be there for quite a while) , I purchased some transparent tubing from "B**********gs". (As shown below) It comes in lots of sizes and I have found it to be very handy. So if this is something you have'nt considered, now you know.

P.S. The picture below shows the guy wire on a Japanese Black Pine.

GOTCHA!!! It's a Serissa As if!!!!

the foliage looks pretty tight john, are you gonna show us the rest of your tree???


jamie

Yeah thats really clever, onya jamie

Psymo wrote:Yeah thats really clever, onya jamie

are you being sarcastic???

Hi Jamie, I have the tree in another post.

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It is about halfway down the document. You can't miss it. And Yes, the foliage is extremely tight.

yes its great i'd be lost with out it! you can also thread thicker wire through and wrap with it.

nice one mate i can see now, maybe you should post the pic here to show how effective it is aswell

just a thought

jamie

Funny you should bring that up, i too this last few days did the same. I think its even better than winding the wire around the branches.

I also use the tubing if I have making a cradle around a pot to guy branches down so the tubing protects the pot from possible wire scratching. Not important on most commercial pots but if the pot is Mirkwood or Mudlark I prefer to take special care. I would rarely use it to wire a branch but almost always use it if I am working with guy wires.

It is also better to use copper wire for guy wires as it is stronger than aluminium.