Questions tagged [pruning]
Questions about how to best cut plant branches.
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Are My Plants Getting too much Sun?
I have two plants who have been in the sun for less thann 24hrs and their leaves look brown and wilted. The leaves are soft and leathery. I just moved and heard that plants don't like to be moved much,...
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Reducing Leyland cypress to several lateral upward branches
I do have 12 years old, 9 meters (30 ft) tall, 4.5 meters (15 ft) wide, not-ever-pruned Leyland cypress. As you can guess, it threatens touching utility lines, and I think I have to remove it because ...
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Proper pruning for Globe Catalpa to encourage upward growth and health
I bought a house that came with Globe Catalpa trees. The prior owner insisted I should cut of all the branches every year after it had gone dormant. That seemed like an absurd and stressing thing to ...
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Rose shrub suddenly dying 1 month after transplantion
I live in South India .We bought this yellow rose 4 years ago, which blooms and slowly turns white in color after few days.[Since I don't know which variety it is]
Earlier,we planted the shrub beside ...
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7 years old Rose shrub giving shriveled up leaves and flowers
I live in South India ,we shifted into our new house 7 years ago and planted this dark pink rose soon after from a nursery .There were 2 of them, but one of them died soon after planting, from shock I ...
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Indoor tree wasn't properly watered and now it seems the top is dead, what should I do?
Indoor tree wasn't properly watered and now it seems the top is dead, what should I do?
Couldn't attach photos so I created a google photo album. Any help would be great thanks. I was advised to cut ...
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When and how should a wisteria be pruned?
I just moved into a house which has two well established wisteria plants growing on the front of it.
To our knowledge, it's been here for about 30+ years and we'd like to get it under a little control ...
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Should I prune a group 1 Clematis in autumn?
I have a climbing Clematis Montana (Gothenburg) which I planted in May (I'm in East England). As this is a group 1 variety, it is supposed to flower early — I haven't seen any flowering this year. It ...
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Making branches of Sophora pendula beautifully curvy?
Is there a special pruning technique needed to achieve curly/spiraled branches of Sophora pendula like in this picture (image too large to upload, click the link to see it) or this:
My weeping ...
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Is there any concern to prune back lilly pilly and Murraya rather aggressive?
I have two plants that have grown over the years without serious trimming/pruning. As you can see in the pictures, they have grown a lot taller than the fence.
I want to trim them back to about 0.5m ...
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Entire apple seedling was eaten, but miraculously came back as two. Now what?
At the beginning of the pandemic, house bound, I decided I wanted to try germinating apple seeds from fruits I had consumed. After a dormancy, one of the seeds actually sprouted and I was obsessed ...
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How early should I start pruning Western Red Cedar planted as a hedge?
I planted a row of Thuja plicata somewhat over a year ago as a boundary hedge. It's quite shady so they have not grown much but they are surviving and growing.
They're about 3' (1m) tall but quite ...
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Should I prune my Crassula rogersii?
I have what I think is a little Crassula rogersii that's been growing out in three branches from a little trunk. The branch in the middle seems to be getting somewhat top-heavy (you can see how this ...
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Dry plant is back to life
My plant went dry when the covid started, I couldn’t give it too much attention (but it has a drip irrigation) on how it went, but then I noticed it was all dry (not a single leaf).
Some weeks ago, ...
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Pruning / restarting a birds of paradise tree
Hello I have several large birds of paradise trees (strelitzia nicolai), seen in the picture below.
Since I live in a a seasonal climate they need to be taken indoors over the winter. Unfortunately ...
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Is it safe to prune redbud in summer?
I have a young (2-3 year old) redbud tree that has some low branches that are sagging and need to be pruned. I know the preferred time of year to do so has already passed (early summer, just after ...
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Will the plant below be able to flourish without trimming the one on top?
After cutting off the root of the plant on top (I had to - long story), I'm wondering whether the one at the bottom will be able to eventually "take its place" without me having to intervene....
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Pruning Coleus (and silly 15 character requirement)
I have some coleus that about 20-24 inches tall and "leggy", as they say. So I want to prune them down and have looked at several YT videos. But their plants are all perfect for pruning ...
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Should I prune these low branches on my tomato plant?
My tomato is probably 3 weeks old and now it's end of July.
Should I trim the low branches in red circle?
What else should I do now to accelerate tomato production? Fertilizer?
I am Pacific Northwest....
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what to do to make all the leaves of my Nerium variegata turn yellow?
I live in Portugal. I have a neriun oleander variegata whose leaves are on certain branches completely yellow.
How can I get the whole bush to give leaves whid this color?
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Why are these tree branches growing downward?
The trees on my property tend to grow their branches downward, like this:
It looks to me like they're just crowded and reaching for some sunlight, but I'm starting to worry about their health and ...
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Schefflera leaflet count dropped after pruning
I got a Schefflera plant recently in a 4" pot. I pruned it to encourage branching (cut off the top a little.) Before pruning, new leaflets were always set of 8. The rest of the plant has leaflets ...
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How do I maximize flowers from Sweet Peas?
My sweet peas are growing quite well up the netting. As shown in the attached photo, they’ve grown up past the netting and are reaching skyward into emptiness.
(I put that black plastic square behind ...
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Limiting cryptomeria height
Recently bought a new house, and we have a cryptomeria planted about 10' away from it. It's currently about 20' tall and healthy.
I know cryptomerias can grow very tall and we do not want to allow for ...
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Avocado leaves drooping
Why are my avocado’s leaves pointing down? I water it once a week and everytime i water it, the leaves raise up a little. Should I water it more often? I am afraid of rotting roots.
Should I transfer ...
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How hard can one prune a Hebe hedge?
I have a Hebe hedge like the shrub pictured and due to inadequate pruning over the years it has badly outgrown it's area. Hebe's have green foliage only for a couple inches over the outside of the ...
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How to prune cherry tree to grow evenly?
I have a cherry tree that until September was overshadowed by much larger trees. As a result the tree has no growth on one side. I took the larger trees down and had hoped that this season would bring ...
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How to encourage growth from seed in an avocado tree?
I have an avocado seedling. I've recently pruned the tree and there is new growth visible.
However, when I inspect the seed, I see multiple sprouts just waiting there. How do I encourage those to grow ...
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Should chestnut seedlings be pruned?
I have planted Castanea chestnut seeds which have grown to seedlings. However, some of the seedlings have more than one stem, like this one:
This one even has 3, all growing from the same seed:
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Is Yucca plant dead?
I bought my Yucca plant in February and it was fine. I believe I might have over watered it. Recently I saw the leaves turning yellow, I decided to re-pot it with cactus soil and one spray of plant ...
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Can i prune an habanero in may?
Soo i bought this plant already developed, assuming it was planted in mid February, can i snip off the top of the plant or it already invested too much energy in growing the stem? it's about 20 cm ...
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How do I prevent my forsythia from getting leggy/wiry at the bottom?
How do I prune my forsythia to encourage bushy growth at the bottom? It is extremely healthy-looking at the top and ends, but I want to stop it from becoming leggy/wiry at the bottom. I don't want ...
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Making six leylandiis bushy
I have just planted 6 leylandii at approx. 3 ft apart. They were 6 ft tall when I bought them last month. I want to grow them to about 15 ft and want them to merge together with a nice thick healthy ...
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Fiddle Leaf Tree: does radical pruning make sense?
Last year our Fiddle Leaf Tree lost many of its leaves due to overwatering. You can see that the three top branches only have leaves on their ends:
To give the tree a nicer shape, we want to cut all ...
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Have I ruined my Japanese maple by over-pruning?
I pruned the dead bits off my Bihou Acer two weeks ago. Now there are no leaves and the stems are going black. Have I wrecked it?
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Turning a jade plant into a tree
I started a jade plant from a cutting. It is growing nicely but has three different branches. How do I trim my plant to make it a tree? Do I split the three branches and repot each to turn into a ...
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New to me Plant, Not sure what steps to take
I recently inherited this plant (was in an office and neglected for a long time other than sporadic watering over the last 10 years).
First of all - anyone know what plant this is? Dracaena was ...
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How to prune this prunus okame
We planted this prunus okame last year, and according to this website it should be pruned after flowering for the first couple of years. I am thinking to prune off the lower branches as it is close ...
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How do I get a nice dense folliage back on my Chinese Elm?
I'm new here and quite new to growing bonsais! I'm in possession of a Chinese Elm, which I bought 3 months ago. It was held outside by the previous owner, so it had no leaves when it arrived here. I'm ...
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How do I encourage my potted Lilac Palibin to grow more leaves and flowers?
I live in Munich, Germany, and have had my Lilac Palibin bush for nearly a year. It has grown well in its pot on my south-east-facing balcony. However, now spring has arrived it has few leaves up ...
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Blackberry bushes with No Berries . Thornless berries puchased from Conservation Dept
I purchase 8 thornless blackberry bushes from the local Pa. (Wayne County) Conservation Dept. about 8 years ago. They look vigorous and in good, loamy soil and have good drainage with full sun. They ...
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Black cattleya pseudobulb
I would like to ask if I need to prune off the blackened pseudobulb on this cattleya orchid or could I just leave it as is.
Thanks!
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What to do to pelargoniums after overwintering in cellar
I have a couple of pelargonia in pots. They live on a south facing balcony, and generally seem pretty happy there in the summer. (In my previous posts, they lived elsewhere and were much less happy. ...
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How do I prune the broken branches of my plum tree?
I have a plum tree that's about 8 years old. For the first time last year, it produced a bumper crop, having only given a few the previous years. Not realising it was a good idea, I never pruned it.
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Trim hydrangeas when some growth on old branches
Below is my hydrangeas that was way over due
I didn’t trim it until Feb 15
The darker branches have some growth on top of it. I thought those are dead branches.
Also the whiter color branches are ...
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Is it ever too late to prune hawthorn?
The previous owners of our property planted a hawthorn hedge as screening from the road but it's clearly not been managed for severally years; they're now established trees 10+ feet tall.
Hawthorn is ...
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What should i do with this mulberry tree?
Last year i had planted 4 mulberry trees outside but slowly they all started to die. I figured it was the soil. It was badly compacted. Eventually, i was left with just one which i decided to pull out ...
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How long can I keep rosette-forming Peperomias without pruning, while in ideal growing conditions?
Unlike nurseries, flower shops do not provide all conditions for healthy growth. Sellers are often stuck with batches of rosette-forming Peperomias such as P. Caperata, P. griseoargentea and P. ...
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Will lemon tree ever grow new leaves on on bare branches?
I have an apparently healthy lemon tree that exhibits a few isolated leafless branches, 10-30cm long. Can I assume these are dead wood and prune them, or should I wait longer for them to emit new ...
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Is the pruner bad or my technique? Cuts are not clean and nice
I got this pruner and the build quality is certainly good, but my cut experience is not going good. The cuts are not clean. Check the pics attached:
This is how I do it:
I place the pruner in ...
