Eric shares his work on two of his older Chinese Elms, focusing on ramification and spring cutback and thinning.

00:00:20 Tree 1: Between last summer's work and damage from an early Fall storm, Eric decided to trim back all of the branches and "start over" with some secondary and tertiary branching...to mixed results.

00:01:14 The results includes some bare spots; Eric had hoped more buds would pop out.

00:01:38 How to gauge whether Eric cut this tree back properly.

00:02:08 Cutting back to two leaves on each strong shoot.

00:02:43 Additional cutback of branches.

00:03:52 Tree 2: Keeping up with deciduous work in Spring...or not keeping the tree cutback and thinned out enough, the outside and top branching is healthy but the interior twigs are dying off.

00:04:20 Eric wants to force the tree to bud back on older wood and make more compact branching.

00:05:11 Analysis of cutback results and discussion of long-term maintenance to keep growing out interior twigs.

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