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Is this a sacrificial branch?

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Posted 4 years 9 months ago #61223
Hello everyone.
There is a new shoot coming righ at the bottom of the bark. I am wondering if keeping it will thicken the bark? If it doesn't I'm gonna cut it off before it grows.
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Posted 4 years 9 months ago #61225
No you should remove it.
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Posted 4 years 9 months ago #61227
Yes, looks like a sucker (see the image here, number one, www.bonsaiempire.com/basics/styling/pruning )
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Posted 4 years 9 months ago #61231
If you let that branch grow, the base of the tree will indeed thicken.

Do note, thick sacrifice branch means large pruning wounds.
I am a fan of letting low branches run to get som taper and mass on trunks.
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Posted 4 years 9 months ago #61232

m5eaygeoff wrote: No you should remove it.

hey , thanks for response , do you think it doesn't worth the scar or it won't thicken the trunk at all ? since Oscar and Leatherback said it would thicken
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