Good training work done so far.That's gotta be some of the worst wiring ever on here.
Don't worry, you're not the only one here who needs practice wiring.Probably saved her life today by cutting all that BS wire off.
Things I was today-years-old when I learned:
1. Steel wire is even harder to remove than it is to apply [even applied poorly].
2. When you think it might be time to remove the wire, it's already too late.
3. I need better wire cutters.
4. I need better wire.
5. I need to practice wiring on things that won't die.
6. I need to leave room every so often to get the cutters on the wire.
7. I need to cut the wraps more often... better undetstanding of how to leave the right opening to get the coil of wire I just cut off actually off the branch/tree without damaging the tree... I hated cutting a section of wire free, just to have to cut it again to get it completely off.
8. I need another tool, maybe extra long needlenose, to hold/stabilize the wire I am cutting... I shook the everlasting p!ss out her trying to get that wire off of her... I kept telling her I was helping her, I promised the tree. Lol.
9. I can actually manage removing all that mess without causing further damage to the tree... I only lost the tiniest little leaf during all that wire cutting and removal [took over an hour of kneeling/laying on the patio trying to get the best angle at the wire].
10. I am going to spend the rest of this tree's life correcting my own mistakes.
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One valuable lesson to learn. Smooth barked trees should not have wire cut in before removal. Will take much time or never grow out. If tree will develop rough bark in reasonable time wire marks will grow out/be obscured in time. Ash are in middle ground here/will eventually get somewhat rough bark10. I am going to spend the rest of this tree's life correcting my own mistakes.
Our IMpatience teaches us that tenacity is a matter of patience.Regardless of her tenacity thusfar, removing that wire was brutal... for both of us. How truly novice I am was readily apparent, and further work at this moment is rather intimidating.
I keep telling myself to be patient
Nice!Moved everything up on to a table beside the house today. Gets good afternoon sun there past 230pm... most of those plants have been living along that side of the house already, so it's the sun they are used to getting.
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What posts? Might be a timing thing and it got buried down the listof new posts. Or whatever you asked about was something that not many people can help or know about. Since you've restricted your profile, I can't search your postsWell congratulations you’ve managed to get more activity than my posts do I’ll give you that, no offense but people on here are like general human instinct , they care more about the car wrecks .
Join the BSOP club.
Ah perhaps that’s why, thanks he’s a 7 y.o English labWhat posts? Might be a timing thing and it got buried down the listof new posts. Or whatever you asked about was something that not many people can help or know about. Since you've restricted your profile, I can't search your posts
Love the dog in your profile BTW. I have labs/lab mixes as well
I figure there's no point in removing any growth from it this time of year. Even if you plan on taking the rest of that trunk off in the future, any growth on it will help thicken and strengthen the rest of the tree. So unless it starts getting in the way of growth you know you're going to keep, I'd just let it go until spring.Well, she is apparently waking up from the shock of being chopped in half a week ago. I know I said I was going to wait to chop the top half of the sacrifice trunk off, but I didn't... wait, that is. I did chop her in half by the light of the last full moon. Anyways, she is waking up, and pushing some fresh greens. The new growth low on the trunk I'm keeping is in a good spot, me-thinks... should give me something to work with down the road.
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And that really low leaf is progressing a litlle, too.
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I'm curious if I should pinch these buds growing near the chop on the sacrifice trunk. What do you think? Let the sacrifice trunk recover/grow wild as it will, or pinch the buds on the sacrifice trunk to encourage her to focus on what I'm going to keep? Does she need the new growth on the sacrifice trunk to fatten up for winter?
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