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You wrote:

If anyone has any tried and successful ways of thickening the
trunk of a Black Pine I would love to hear from them.

And I reply:

There's only two: Growing in the ground, and TIME.

Other suggestions you may hear or read of -- cicatrizing the
trunk and bending the tree twice a day a

a) Nonsense
b) Dangerous to the tree

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Our life is
frittered away by detail . . . . Simplify! Simplify. -- Henry
David Thoreau - Walden

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