Maple Techniques: How to develop Branches and Close Wounds. One year Trident

How do you develop branches on a trident maple? How quickly do trident maple cut-sites close over? In this video I will show you the one year progress of developing a trident maple. Thinning out the crown, pruning back the branches and getting lower branches to thicken more than the branches on top. The previous video on this tree: https://youtu.be/cDL_bs3E-6M 0:00 developing trident maple 0:22 When to do fall work on your trident maple? 0:42 Early season work on trident maple, and defoliating 1:47 Thickening of lower branches, Pruning trident in spring, discussing a new leader 4:15 Dealing with spring cut sites and how they have further healed over summer 6:08 Fall pruning for taper and refinement, the importance of internode length, where to prune for taper and avoid swelling 9:30 Fall care for trident maple and late winter care to create a better nebari Music by Tattooed Preacher (https://pixabay.com/users/tattooedpreacher-21039356/) at https://pixabay.com