Growing European ivy's trunk
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Tonight I've consulted an expert in agronomy and he said that there's no any negative effect on the plant if it's cut off when it exceeds it's imagined desired length. Nor it slows down the trunk's fattening process. This is an expert statement. My personal opinion in the beginning was that it makes no sense that the trunk would fatten faster if let to grow for metres, cause it fattens equally from bottom to top. Seemed to me, if you cut the unnecessary parts that develop equally everywhere along the stem and maybe waste food, it would only make easier for the trunk to get fatter when shorter. This was of course laic logical thinking, but if anything, now I know it doesn't have any negatve effects on the process.
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Sure. Your expert against this expert answering.
Thickening of a trunk is in direct relation to the amount of green biomass you have above that point. As such, longer branches get you a fatter stem faster: The longer you let the branches grow, the more foliage you get, the more girth development you can get.
But ah well. What do I know. I have only been growing plants for a few decades. Got a PhD of one of the best aricultural universities in the world and have measured thousands of trees in stand-regeneration studies.
I do get to the point that I wonder why you even ask questions, as you give an argument against every single answer you get.
Thickening of a trunk is in direct relation to the amount of green biomass you have above that point. As such, longer branches get you a fatter stem faster: The longer you let the branches grow, the more foliage you get, the more girth development you can get.
But ah well. What do I know. I have only been growing plants for a few decades. Got a PhD of one of the best aricultural universities in the world and have measured thousands of trees in stand-regeneration studies.
I do get to the point that I wonder why you even ask questions, as you give an argument against every single answer you get.
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- Nikola990
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I never claimed you're wrong, I just got different advices elsewhere. I didn't imagined anything of what I said, it's someone's knowledge and experience. For example, at some prominent sites, I read that thuja should be propagated in the end of may, and elsewhere I read it should be done in the early fall. People have different experiences that worked out and I'm keen to use the easier ones, I won't lose anything really.
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