Josh88
Shohin
When I first started reading here about trunk chopping larger trees last fall, I caught sight of this stewartia at my local nursery and bought it with the plan of chopping this spring. There has been some great advice from @Leo in N E Illinois in a thread started by @Eddy, and a wonderful link to an @Owen Reich article from @quietobserver about his same topic. Here are a few pictures of my tree, and I would love some other's thoughts. That's a business card case for size reference. I was originally thinking of chopping around the second branch on the right, but upon a closer look there appear to be three buds just above and left of the first branch, and I wonder if this would be a better choice. This will be my first big trunk chop and I'm looking forward to whatever I learn from this experience, but I'd love to hear what others would do with this material, or if you would bother at all if it was yours. If this were your tree how would you proceed?