new bougy

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Andrew
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new bougy

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so this is my new purple boug i dug up yesterday.has some nice movment and an interesting branch,not sure its its usefull but we will see.would love some ideas,im planing something abit diffrent with some shari.kimura if your on this forum would love to no what you think ;)
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Re: new bougy

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The bottom picture is definitely not the front. [he he]. Relax, wait until the little beast starts to shoot before trying to decide how you are going to style it. And remember, the shoots are not really attached to the trunk with super glue so be very careful when you start to wire them. I was trying to put a thin wire around a new shoot on a similar trunk and ended up with the wire on the tree and the shoot in my hand. And I was being careful.

All I would recommend at this stage is to let it start shooting vigorously and rub off the shoots you know you don't want and let the rest get to the stage they need wiring and then repost. But the trunk is quite nice, some lovely movement there.
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