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"David Bockman" wrote in message
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We're probably at the height of the bad season to make any cuts into
hard wood. To do so now would invite a flush of extraordinary growth
at the cut location. Late fall to very early spring are good times
for major pruning.

I recall reading that early spring wasn't a good time to prune maples.




Yes, the folk wisdom is that the poor little Maple will pump sap at a
prodigious rate until it bleeds to death. I've worked with Maples for over
15 years, both as bonsai and as landscape trees, and I've never seen it.
Hard pruning just as the buds are beginning to push results in a flush of
adventitious buds forming from old wood, some of which can be chosen as
better-placed branches, or they can be simply rubbed off.

--
David J. Bockman, Fairfax, VA (USDA Hardiness Zone 7)
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