{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "My first full season of trying to prune and retrain some of these trees that were left to grow wild and then overrun with vines....", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164042325993/", "html": "<p>My first full season of trying to prune and retrain some of these trees that were left to grow wild and then overrun with vines. Big insights from this year:\u2028</p><ul>\u2028<li>spring/old wood vs. summer/new wood blooming matters a lot, actually\u2028</li><li>I shouldn\u2019t feel bad about cutting branches that started as vertical suckers but now form part of the canopy; they got that far cause there\u2019s tempting sunlight there and better-positioned branches will grow in to fill quickly\u2028</li><li>in reverse, if I want to grow back an empty or misshapen patch that\u2019s not at the canopy I have to thin the layer above to let in some sun. this is a big problem regrowing stuff that\u2019s been overshadowed by larger trees since original trunk growth </li></ul>"}