🌱🔵 Taxus Yew, #2421
Yew (Taxus, Taxaceae), 7/29/24: Local volunteer, $10 for a two year-old sapling about 3ft.
Added some trunk movement and twist early, hoping that eventual thickening will show the benefits of texture.
Sep 2025
Hoping that autumn thickening of the trunk will hold the wired movement and twist. Using hand-wrap tape and thick wire and guy wires.
Will progressively apply twist and lower movement for a desirable small tree that will bulk up over time. Fertilizing w organic.
Dec 2024 repot into a grow box with high drainage soil
Next Steps
Fertilize occasionally 0-10-10 in winter and 14-14-14 in the growing season.
Don’t worry about branches, but ensure that a potential primary branch allowed to grow long and not shaded out near the trunk.
Attempt to grow cuttings for approach grafts for roots, if ever needed. Or to make complex tortuous base, like a reverse clump. Or to develop a clump base for a new tree.
Next growing season, feed and water. Once girth bulked up, identify where the primary branch may be (1/3 final height) and chop for taper.
While the trunk thickens and twists, target an ideal shape/size/color pot to make or buy.
Oct 2024
After only 1.5 mo, the wire bit in 1/2 way, so I removed and tied movement to the stake.
Lowered some branches, but this is all primary trunk growth and movement.
