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Janet Galpin writes:
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| One of my books says that this needs pruning when young to avoid
| becoming lank, and its growth (from the tips) confirms that. But
| when, and how harshly?
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| The website, http://www.ag.auburn.edu/hort/landscape/338.html, has for
| Koelreteria paniculata:
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| GROWTH HABIT: Grows 15' to 30' tall. Can be single or multi-trunked
| (severe renewal prune when young).
| This is unhelpfully vague but does suggest that harsh is OK.

Yes, but when and how? Some things like the dormant season; others hate
it.

| I have a specimen which I bought cheap which has a very long bare trunk
| and then a small but quite dense head of short branches which are still,
| after four years, putting on only a small amount of growth. It's lanky
| in the sense of being all thin trunk and not much else. Is that the kind
| of lanky implied by your book, do you think?
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| I think mine had been in a pot for too long but it is at least holding
| its own and I'm still hoping that it might just take off one day.

Mine is new, but its branches are shooting entirely from the tips.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.