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I finally decided to have one place to tell you the story of the second Deshojo I had in my life. The first one was, as far as I can remember, an innocent victim of the sun about 25 years ago.
It's mostly a way to remind me not to repeat the errors I made and spot an issue I already met in time. Feel free to correct me any time since I'm not an expert, just an enthusiast of trees and Nature in general.
This is still my favorite JM because of the colors it exhibits every season but it's a very delicate and demanding tree, at least when it's in my hands.
March 2015
I got the tree in March 2015 from a local (German) online shop, standard import from some Asian country.
View media item 2925At the beginning of May I pruned the longer shoots. My reasoning was that if I got too long internodes on the new shoots I would have to cut the whole new growth anyway so I was trying to keep the ones with short internodes and reduce the others.
Now I know that pruning (too many) new branches the tree is still developing might take some energy off it and weaken it. I'm much more conservative now with late Spring pruning although the issue of long internodes still exists.
To be continued...
It's mostly a way to remind me not to repeat the errors I made and spot an issue I already met in time. Feel free to correct me any time since I'm not an expert, just an enthusiast of trees and Nature in general.
This is still my favorite JM because of the colors it exhibits every season but it's a very delicate and demanding tree, at least when it's in my hands.
March 2015
I got the tree in March 2015 from a local (German) online shop, standard import from some Asian country.
View media item 2925At the beginning of May I pruned the longer shoots. My reasoning was that if I got too long internodes on the new shoots I would have to cut the whole new growth anyway so I was trying to keep the ones with short internodes and reduce the others.
Now I know that pruning (too many) new branches the tree is still developing might take some energy off it and weaken it. I'm much more conservative now with late Spring pruning although the issue of long internodes still exists.
To be continued...