It is never too late to wire.

If you want to cut back branches to where there is no
growth, I would wait until next year, or if you must
wait until June when there is what is called a second
spring. First spring trees give a big energy push,
take a rest and do it all over again about June, but
with less vigor.

Kitsune Miko
--- MadSweeney wrote:
what i have are 2 low branches that curve up, almost
like extra trunks. i
was going for an 'umbrella'-like bunch on the ends
of each of them. like
serengetti trees, wide but thin. so i stripped it
to the ends, but i
realize that i need lower brnches to support it and
wanted to do anything i
could to accelerate the back budding.

is it too late to do any wiring? how about cutting
back branches that have
minimal growth so far?
"Kitsune Miko" wrote in message

o.com...
Yes, if it is a healthy tree to begin with. If
you
cut back when it was dormant. If youcut back after
budding out , you have the tree wasted the
resources
it used to bud out.

So I don't know if you are talking about total
defoliation or expect budding out to occur in
specific
places or what.

I completed trasplanting and shaping all my elms
already. I am in the California bay area. I have
an
elm that has a nice trunk, but bad branches. Next
Janurary/February, I will remove all the dormant
branches. I will ge sprouting from the trunk. I
will
save the sprouts I want for new branches and rub
off
the rest.

Kitsune Miko
--- MadSweeney
wrote:
no, i think i may have missed the window. i'm
talking next week to my local
bonsai nursery. but it will back bud like mad
on
the entire tree right?
just regular, balanced fertilizer

my email is without the 42. i've been on nhl
groups
rousing ire and they
can be vengeful so i hide it a little bit.
"Kitsune Miko" wrote in
message



o.com...
It should bud back. Just try and stop it. I
keep
rubbing elm buds off of my tree trunks. Did
you
just
transplant as well?

Kitsune Miko

PS your email address doesn't accept my
replies.

--- MadSweeney
wrote:
is there any way to induce a chinese elm to
bud
back
on the branches? i
stripped it too clean while trial and
erroring.
is
there a fertillizer
combo that will help out or cutting
techniques?
i'm
in l.a., zone 10.
thanks






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