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[SG] Attention Tree People!

Hello; I hope the tree experts out there can help me.  I have a 2' tall
Davidia involucrata, which had been growing with a nice, straight standard
and prettily curved branches.  The growing point was topped by a soft,
green shoot sporting two leaves.  I am somewhat overweight; having been
quite slender most of my life, I don't always automatically know where my
current body ends and the rest of the world begins.  So I leaned over the
tree while weeding and some part of me broke the top shoot off.

Does this mean I have just limited my tree to a mature height of 2'?  Will
a new shoot emerge from the growing point?  Should I try to train a branch
to replace the standard, or is the growth pattern such that it makes no
difference that the shoot was destroyed?  If I have to train a branch, how
do I do that?


Sheila Smith
mikecook@pipeline.com
Z 5/6
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