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[defra]

The growth did not extend enough to say its fully recoverd but it seems to do ok !



I am wondering if it would be safe to prune the new growth back by half to stimulate backbudding?

 

[_#1_]

prune the new growth back by half to stimulate backbudding?

I could be wrong but I always though stimulating back budding is more for styling than promote health. If you let the new growths extend, they should pop lots more buds. That's what mine did.

 

[defra]

I could be wrong but I always though stimulating back budding is more for styling than promote health. If you let the new growths extend, they should pop lots more buds. That's what mine did.

Its not for health purposes i want the growth to go down low so i can chop it down in about a year or two and start growing some primary branches and apex within three years or so
But i guess ill just let it go and wait untill i am sure it is recoverd from my hard rootwork and neglection at the nursery

 

[TomB]

I’d give it another year to build strength personally. You should get buds on the trunk anyway if it is healthy.

 

[just.wing.it]

This year I did spring time work to 2 of my yews, one as buds swelled, and one when new shoots were an inch or 2...

I have 2 more that I haven't touched this year, so far...
I think one will get a haircut soon as it seems to have stopped it's first flush now, and has good even growth all around...then in mid to late September I will do some wiring.
The other one untouched so far will remain untouched until September, then I'll see....

 

[dirk hoorelbeke]

Wait until it backbudding on it's own. That's the sign you can cut back and form it.

 

[leatherback]

.. Please tell me you were not impatient, left it alone and now you have a ball of green??

 

[defra]

.. Please tell me you were not impatient, left it alone and now you have a ball of green??

Well I have been patient with this one!
Havnt done anything with it yet
But it's kinda disappointing tough...
Not Realy any backbudding low on the trunk its alive tough at least at one side it might have been shaded out at the back to much I think still unsure on what to do with it.

Pics how it looks today

 

[leatherback]

Do you give it enough to eat? sunlight? Fertilizer?

 

[defra]

Do you give it enough to eat? sunlight? Fertilizer?

Been feeding it : foliar feed once a week, plenty of organic fertilizer trough the season npk 7-6-5

But because it's in that big box and I have a small garden i don't have much other space to put it so It might have gotten to little sun but from 13:00 it's in full sun at this spot so maybe the root work I've done plays a part in the tree abandoning some parts also?

 

[leatherback]

.. and.. how did it come through winter?

 

[defra]

.. and.. how did it come through winter?

it lives.
nothing done with it yet tough

 

[leatherback]

it lives.

budding? Pushing?

 

[defra]

budding? Pushing?

Yeah but still only on the top has growth
Its reduced a little on the left side my son broke off a branch but I can only see either a tall design or I have to chop it down to the first 30cm and see what happens then but I am not sure when is the right time for that..

 

[leatherback]

Looks happy enough. I would probably slowly get it into the sun again, fertilise well. If these are anything like the yews I have, they will respond by budding all-over come late summer. In spring 2021 you would have your pick of pushing foliage and buds for cutting back to.

 

[defra]

Looks happy enough. I would probably slowly get it into the sun again, fertilise well. If these are anything like the yews I have, they will respond by budding all-over come late summer. In spring 2021 you would have your pick of pushing foliage and buds for cutting back to.

i hope so!
it is moved to more sun and fertelized twice with liquid fert and a brunch of organic untill now! , if it refuses to bud back lower on the trunk the only option wil be a tall slanting/literati design with one live vein and lots of deadwood preferable the left side because it is not as straight as the right side and the big root on the left will make it seem stable.
bad sketch and maybe not totaly in scale but this might show my tought

 

[defra]

im not far off with my sketch only the live vein will be a little more straight tough

ive been busy removing dead bark back side completely died and both left and right sides have a single live vein left and two roots in the front look alive rest is dead heres some pics the bark cleanup will have to be continued later cus i dont have the time today

 

[Agriff]

Nice work @defra ! How's it doing this year?

 

[defra]

its alive!
at least still one side of it...
in doubting to put it a different container a bit more managable and since there is only one live vein it does not need this much space anymore i think...

 

[Crazy Diamond]

Maybe grafting near the base and cut all the straight cylindrical trunk? IDK how well yew grafts though