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Originally Posted by TrevMcRev  I'd prefer more "reduction" than "thinning".
The nett result still thins the canopy but leaves a better framework.
Thinning alone leaves long wispy branches that once they flush with new growth and extend further will be even more prone to failure. |
See, now with this species that the we're looking at here, does it only thicken "bush up" on the ends or will this one thicken elsewhere too? I dont know, but I feel from what is being told it fills out fast (bushes/thickens up).
I know my trees here and what they do, reduce some, thin others and combos on some. But this thing we're looking at here, I got no idea what it does.
Up here for instance, with Jacs and Poincies I go for the reduction as much as I can, keep them down.
Now Leopards, just clean the dead/rubbing out of them and thin the occasional, stronger than steel those bastids but if you nip the ends for a reduction they just rocket off again and you have bugger all places to target cut to.