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Roughly 80% of these thread situations, the trees aren't in a position to be applying these techniques to begin with.
Colin Fraser shared this with us on another thread....
Watch all 4 parts!
Also, it doesn't apply to Elm and Box much,
But I am against teaching newbs to blindly cut off all upward and downward growing foliage.
On spruce, Junipers, pines, even some deciduous trees, hell, box and elm too!
You can turn the branch sideways, or completely upside down.....
Be sure you won't need to do that first!
For instance...
The rule "foliage close to the trunk" should take presidence.
If your first foliage is up and down...
But your next bit doesn't come till the end of a 3inch long internode, you are better off flipping that branch sideways, and utilizing that close foliage.
If you blindly cut off all that up and down foliage....
You may end up with nothing good to work with.
This concept gets more important the closer you get to the apex.
So I would say yes....
That sheet is good.
But there is more mindfulness to apply as well....between every rule.
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