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Sep 20, 2021 2:02 PM CST
Name: Sasha Palmer
Baltimore, MD (Zone 7b)
Live for the Love of it.
Hi,
So my little sapling became kind of wild, and I did prune it. I basically thinned it out removing crisscross branches, as well as a couple of brunches that grew at weird angles (for example, straight down.) I also removed another shoot that was growing pretty fast.

I don't know if the trunk will ever get tall enough: it splits pretty low to the ground, nothing I can do about it. I'm just hoping that I'll be able to get the sapling to resemble a tree, albeit a small one, in shape.

Right now it looks like a champagne flute. May I trim those long branches to give the crown a tidier shape, or should I wait till after the tree blooms next spring?

Thank you very much!


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