Bonsai Forest
Omono
Regarding spruce and cryptomeria and similar foliage growth:
Does pinching off 1/3” length of growth from the newly grown, fleshy, bright green tips at the ends of branches push the auxin further back into the interior of the entire branch branch so that the:
a) primary portion of the whole branch stops elongating and getting too leggy (thus preventing foliage from being further away from the tree as a whole)?
b) promote the growth and maturity of wood on secondary branches/tertiary growth?
c) If this is accurate, does that mean one is essentially pinching their way all over the tree to achieve a tightly ramified and eventually refined tree?
d) as understand, directly top/bottom and otherwise unnecessary growth can be pruned off, right? (unwanted clusters of growth whether spruce or cryptomeria)
I am also a little confused about pruning a branch to shorten it but keep it. Featured below is a branch I pruned off of my Cryptomeria Black Dragon tree:
This branch was pruned in half last Summer (near end of Summer), the end of the branch healed over, and then began to back bud like crazy (as they seem to willingly back bud) thus what I ended up with by now is a less-than-half-sized-branch with super tight foliage growing into what looks like a pad.
Can I simply do this with Cryptomeria all over the tree to achieve my desired length/size branches and it will stay short and then mature similarly with compact pads?
Can I do the same with Spruce? Or is this all basically the difference between ‘pinching vs. clip and grow’? I am trying to understand how to achieve the maturity and ramification of the primaries and secondaries etc. Sorry for the length of my post.
Does pinching off 1/3” length of growth from the newly grown, fleshy, bright green tips at the ends of branches push the auxin further back into the interior of the entire branch branch so that the:
a) primary portion of the whole branch stops elongating and getting too leggy (thus preventing foliage from being further away from the tree as a whole)?
b) promote the growth and maturity of wood on secondary branches/tertiary growth?
c) If this is accurate, does that mean one is essentially pinching their way all over the tree to achieve a tightly ramified and eventually refined tree?
d) as understand, directly top/bottom and otherwise unnecessary growth can be pruned off, right? (unwanted clusters of growth whether spruce or cryptomeria)
I am also a little confused about pruning a branch to shorten it but keep it. Featured below is a branch I pruned off of my Cryptomeria Black Dragon tree:
This branch was pruned in half last Summer (near end of Summer), the end of the branch healed over, and then began to back bud like crazy (as they seem to willingly back bud) thus what I ended up with by now is a less-than-half-sized-branch with super tight foliage growing into what looks like a pad.
Can I simply do this with Cryptomeria all over the tree to achieve my desired length/size branches and it will stay short and then mature similarly with compact pads?
Can I do the same with Spruce? Or is this all basically the difference between ‘pinching vs. clip and grow’? I am trying to understand how to achieve the maturity and ramification of the primaries and secondaries etc. Sorry for the length of my post.