Dude, who even knows.
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Like you can read on this blog back to posts I still really treasure before I tried trimming a tree at all (my first year’s cuts here at Karafuto were atrocious!), that blows my mind to think of
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So this is the tree behind the bathroom, those two cut trunks will be the central supports for a table and bench (there’ll be a rear deck as ground level, and they’re both a bit high so I can cut down to ideal) and I’m gonna let shoots off them grow and thicken a few years as auxiliary supports (that’s two years’ growth off the upper one and one off the lower, then I cut them down a bit so new shoots will have to stay wide of the upper ones)
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Alright, went to clean up the lower backyard, do more grass weeding in the side yard, then went to finish smashing Blueberry Hill but I’m closer to the energy limits of my creatine dose and it was another tease, only halfway. Then I blocked some parking spaces for the crew coming tomorrow (at 8 AM!) to get up around power lines and trim the last untouched tree on the property.
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Reshaping a bush by cutting it back pretty severely then as it regrows trimming the leggy early-season growth so that it comes back in really dense
Alright, started on the little bit of Blueberry Hill left to smash but it really was left til last because it had the least stable ground to stand on and after a few swings realized I wasn’t gonna have my big finish today.
So instead I edged it (ba-dum-tiss).
I also finished off all the weeding circuit except the yards – front and top rear – within the retaining wall, took the time to try to totally clear some subpar grasses out while the soil’s still moist and good to dig out clumps.
Dumped 3 buckets of pull onto my ramp down into the Blueberry Hill dugout shell, that’s just loads dumped on wood fill full of air pockets so when it rains dirt drains down there and I gotta keep packing more on.
Tree in the top backyard starting to bear leaves, there’s a part where I cut two trunks to mount a bench and table, and shoots are growing off the sides right to thicken to be trimmed into a candelabra of supporting pillars in time.
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No trespassing
See, the top picture is just what happens to a healthy, perfectly well-shaped tree if you don’t remove the lower branches once the crown establishes higher up – the lower branches get more and first spring growth as energy gets hydraulically pumped up from the winter root stores, so they try to stretch and outrace the shade of the crown but they just get spindly for no real gain – the thickness of a branch is basically representative of how much lifetime sun has been kicked up from leaves on the tree (!) graph it tops, look at how where it meets the trunk is noticeably thinner than the younger stuff above it, and keep in mind that sustaining the wood of all those branches in the interim not only came with some “support cost” but the opportunity cost of using that spring growth up higher
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Aw yuss, there was a shoot going straight up from a tree in the backyard last year in a perfect place to grow a secondary trunk, but by September it had gotten its leaves scorched and dropped them but I left it up and now it’s growing new buds again this year.
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Uf, when I did some smashing yesterday after the epic day prior I appreciated once the periods where I had to go do something else for a while I could just take a few minutes’ break, the sets I used to need a break between I just needed to catch my breath again and the stuff where I once needed a breather I just readjusted my grip on the maul.
I also stopped in part cause I was actually getting sore in the shoulder and now waking up my core is tight in the way that means growth. But so no smashing today, though I might take the maul to split up some stumps.
Alright, got to those stumps, 3 I didn’t destroy but opened up the inside wood to the elements in a way that’ll rot them, 3 I cut last year a/o had a service come for two years ago are still too hard and intact and need another year or more of decay.
And that definitely exhausts my capacity to swing that thing for the day.
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Haha, just realized all these “what the fuck is this” sprouts coming up in this one area for years are just suckers off a well-buried tree root that don’t resemble the mature tree
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One thing I’ve really taken to appreciate about trimming plants is whenever you see a photo shoot of something well-done and it’s not of something in winter dormancy it’s probably been trimmed within the week if not immediately before, it didn’t look like that a month earlier, and it won’t look like that a month later
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