After fully understanding LST on cannabis I let a few volunteer trees live on my property. With the caveat that i can manipulate them how i see fit. I probably spend an average of 3-5 hours a year manipulating these plants 4 - 10 years now depending on specie.
I have have done many things over the years to keep them small -except* cut branches.
99% LST, weights, girdling, guide wires, over crowding, de foliating have all played roles.
Most of the LST is done in the form of braiding - or at least using tension and aiming for braided like patterns. A few branches have snapped here and there but 98% of the branches are still intact. Plants have never been “topped” but the natural “leader” or meristem has usually isnt highest point of the plants.
Unfortunately all the starting pics are lost.- on one of the cell phones in a box somewhere or -e cycled.
Earliest shots start in march of 2020 at that point many of these trees are 2-5 years old.
I will get out there today and get some up to date pictures. Enjoy and feel free to add your own shots if you have any tortured trees yourself ( not bonsia)
1 silver maple.
21’
22’
2 pin oak
21’
This is cardinal climber choking purposely choking out the two oaks to keep them in check
at teh end of the season her in 21’ you can see thetwo oks coming together.
22’almost there
23’may
9 braided mulberries (5 lived)
21’
23’
2 bonfire peach not born yet
may 9th- 21’
23’
Random shots —
