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RE: Stewartia

Thank you, Gary- for your very specific instructions. I shall go out tomorrow, 
with my pruners, and your post printed out, and do it!!!

Bettye

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From: 	owner-woodyplants@mallorn.com on behalf of Gary Kling
Sent: 	Thursday, May 22, 1997 3:00 PM
To: 	woodyplants@mallorn.com
Subject: 	RE: Stewartia

At 04:11 PM 5/22/97 UT, you wrote:
>You said, "Try to select
>a good leader and a number of well-spaced, evenly distributed, wide-angled
>branches (sometimes that is easier said than done!)." And I take out 
>everything else? There is a good central leader, and then two main branches 
>coming off that at 10 and 2 o'clock, and then a ton of short bushy green 
>growth sort of at the junction of those three...is that what I remove?

Bettye,
Yes, you should not have a large number of branches coming from the same
point - or they will be inherently weak.  Try to space your branches both
vertially and radially on the plant.  Vertically branches should never be
directly above one another within 12 inches.  You may decide that one of the
short green new branches is needed to balance the plant radially (perhaps
around 6 o'clock), but the rest of them should go.  Look for additional
lateral branching higher up on the plant as it grows. Try and keep those
well spaced and select ones with a wide angle (stronger) from the leader. 
Gary Kling

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