Today, it is proven that the wood of trees cut in waning moon is more dense and resistant than that of trees cut in crescent moon.
Test carried out during the winter of 1998-1999, and published in 2001, during 3 successive moons on 30 coniferous trees (picea abies).
Publication in " Nature " : " lunar synodic rhythm and wood properties : tradition and reality.
But all of this has been known for a long time and before it was proven.
Under Louis XIV , a forestry ordinance fixed the best dates for felling trees intended for the navy in winter and in waning moon.
I had also read that a great bonsai professional, a specialist in yamadori ( hundreds of tree collected each year ) took trees systematically according to the lunar phases because certain periods are much more favorable than others and the survival of the trees was directly linked.
Trees taken at the wrong time would die every time ...