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how should i trim this okame cherry

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I pkanted this tree about a year and half ago and I want to make it grow healthy. My understabding is that I need to create a scaffolding whirl to allow it to become bushier I dont quite understand how to do this. Can someone look at my pictures and help me?

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)

last year

It's a young tree growing exactly the way it should, Compare to images of mature ones online and yours is just a scaled down version. Why would you want to make it look bushy? It will develop a fullness of canopy in time and with good care but that does not involve much in the way of pruning. And not at this age.

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gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
last year
It requires NO pruning at this time. It seems to be developing exactly as it should at this point in time.
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
last year
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It’s absolutely as it should be. Please leave it alone. But do remove the red tape.
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chris d
Original Author
last year
thank you all I never headed it

You dont think i should cut off a few bramches to promote bushiness? The red tape is holding on the tree wrap which prevents sunscald. The wrap is coming off in early april.
chris d
Original Author
last year
ok, thank you. I did remove a branch over the winter that was rubbing against another.
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
last year
Resist the temptation to fiddle. It's doing fine.
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
last year
tree time is counted in decades .. your tree has been there one year.. whats your hurry ..

there is a tree forum.. and that is where you will find pruning advice.. in a year or 3 ...

every leaf is an energy making machine.. and its job for the next 2 or 3 years.. is to grow a root mass as big as the tree you see above ground... and cutting off limbs.. aka leaves.. is not going to speed up root growth ...and neither will fertilizer.. all it takes is time.. and if you fert the lawn.. the tree will get more than it will ever need ...

just water it deeply.. and infrequently.. and insure it properly watered in july and august.. and you should be all set ..

see you in the tree forum next time ...

ken
chris d
Original Author
last year
thanks Ken. Where is the tree forum?
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
last year
Trees Forum - GardenWeb

All the forums are listed under discussions
sam_md
last year
chris d, HERE is a previous post about 'Okame' cherry. One of the pix shows trees that are rounded over, the others are untouched. What do you think of them?
chris d
Original Author
last year
are those giant wide ones untouched? thats exactly how ibwamt mine to be in 20 years. I dont like the perfectly rounded look.
sam_md
last year
are those giant wide ones untouched? Yes

BTW I passed by the one in the McDonald's pic this morning, flowers gone and a distant memory.
chris d
Original Author
last year
why is it gone?
sam_md
last year
why is it gone?

The pic at McDonalds on the other thread was taken when the tree was at peak bloom 23 days ago. I am in NE Maryland, flowers for this cherry are spent.
chris d
Original Author
last year
thats saf
chris d
Original Author
last year
sad
Embothrium
last year
Pruning newly planted trees – The Garden Professors™

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