JOEL MCCORMICK wrote:
Hi Joel
I read that too .. but it also said that is NOT for pines as it
loosen the bark & will kill the tree , the twisting method does the same
bad result.. some books advice pinching teh trunck woth a spike and
teh holes cicatrizing will make it thicker , or scaratch it with a fork
to make it enhance its texture with cicatrization .. all hogwash! you
just spoil a tree
The moment in which the bark is most sensitive& dangerous is may
and june..as it mught loosen from the cambium ;
anyway I would not use that method on a nice/or whatever tree I
spent already time for training ..
If you wire a branch of a pine and you keep this for a while in a
position and than loosen and bent into another position for a while
again (x months anyway)
the connection point of the branch to the main trunk will fatten in
size and become unnatural as as big as the trunk
read and experienced personally :-(
Theo
I have read in a bonsai book that hitting the trunk of a pine with a hammer, softly will cause cell damage and as the tree repairs this damage the diameter of the trunk is increased. The book continued to say that one should only do one side of a tree at
a time.
I am interested in if the hitting the trunk with a hammer really works. I have a Japanese Black Pine that I am growing in the ground. I have about 2 1/2 inch trunk maybe 3. I have good sacrificial branches all the way down to the ground. I have a good cu
rve in the trunk and I have a new top picked out. The problem is that through out the trunk I have very little taper. This spring I will cut it back from 5 foot to 2 foot. My problem is I have little taper from zero to 18 inches then the taper of the new t
op. I plan on the finished plant being around 28 - 32 inches so I may not even need to be concerned at this time.
If the hitting the trunk with a hammer at the base causes the cells to break and then swell to repair themselves it may be worth it, giving me a little better taper at the base. This is not a small seedling in a bonsai pot. This is a 5 ft Japanese black
pine in my yard.
Thanks Joel
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