Sean Freeman

Hi VK, your question raises a few problems, firstly manipulating the growth rate and patterns in any tree species is something that fruit growers have been attempting for a great many years and still have no reached the point where they can defeat the determining factors of the environment in which the trees grow. Secondly if you do attempt to force any tree to grow faster than it is genetically predetermined to you will force the tree into debt, both in terms of the carbon resource it must sacrifice to new growth and in terms of the energy and hormonal control pathways so essential to normal healthy growth.

My advice to you is this create the best soil environment possible for the particular tree, start by establiching just what is going on in your soil now...comprehensive soil testing, including the living biological elements of the soil...the soil food web. Then you can begin to make informed amendments to the soil to improve the conditions for your tree.

The rule in nature is fast growth leads to shortened life span.all the pioneer species grow exceptionally quickly and live very short lives in comparison with other trees.

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Sean

Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
- Kahlil Gibran