Kitsune's method is the safest but you can also cut it back to the stump
that you want to develop your new branches from. Don't just leave them
as flat saw cuts, hollow a little with a chisel and seal all the cuts.
Low temperature melt wax (for grafting) or cut paste will do. Beech
reliably throw many, many buds from ancient bark. That is so long as you
have collected enough fibrous root to support it and it survives
collection.

Cheers

Kev Bailey
Vale Of Clwyd, North Wales


-----Original Message-----
From: Internet Bonsai Club ] On Behalf
Of Kitsune Miko
Sent: 22 March 2004 21:23
To:
Subject: [IBC] collected beech

I think you have to cut above a growing branch and
hope that you push back buds below that branch. That
would be the safest thing to do and take time to
develop a new shape.

I was in Praha last week.

Kitsune Miko
--- XdjipsterX wrote:
hi everyone
this autumn i've collected LARGE beech ...and i want
to make it smaller...
how to do it!?!?
just take a saw and cut it at lower point and than
put some (dunno how to
say it in engleish) but some kind of gardening wax
onto cuted area to
prevent drying?!
and there is no branches below cut area ...will the
tree survive or I have
to cut above few branches!?!?
thanx
ivan
croatia


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