Brent Walston has many excellent articles at his site.
The one I think that will answer your question best
at this time is:

http://evergreengardenworks.com/pruning.htm

It tells you the why as well as the what. Hopefully
you have a bunch of elm seedlings and can
experiment/learn by treating each differently and
studying the results.

Remember that trees think slowly and if you do too
many things to them at one time they can die fom
confusion.

Kits

--- Dimitrios Kalderis wrote:
Too many questions from me lately, I know, but as I
get involved more and more, I face new challenges
every day.

I started a Chinese Elm from seed a few months ago,
and now the seedling has developed into a nice,
straight 8-inch long trunk that has no branches at
all.
It just keeps growing and growing, producing new
leaves, getting taller but no branches have been
formed yet.

Can I induce branching by cutting the top off just
above a pair of leaves ?
How can I make it stop getting taller and direct
most
if its energy into growing sideways ?


thanks (again)
Dimitris




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