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Posted 2 years 11 months ago #75989
I have a nandina with very nice trunk movement but has a typical compound leaves, which don't seem to want to shrink down. The top appears like a canopy but with compound leaves sticking out at funny angles. If I cut half the compound leaf off the lower half looks like a stub that stops abruptly.

There is probably the same problem with any compound leaf, so there must be an acceptable solution.

Ideas?
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Posted 2 years 11 months ago #76006
Hey Ivann, I have quite a few compound leaves' trees here, for some of them, that have big leaves like Delonix Regia, Jacs. and other unusual species, I always aim for big trees, but I still amazed on how those get a lot smaller when on the pot...

I try to make smaller ones with more suitable compound leafed trees... Like Brazilian Rain Trees, Calliandras that are a lot smaller than the others I mentioned... And I even have an experimental small Mimosa Bimucronata, which also seems to have very suitable leaf size/reducing........

Can you share a picture?
Cuz I've seen people reducing the compound leaves by cutting on it's internodes... I don't know how better would it look, but it works.
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Posted 2 years 11 months ago #76031
Picture, of course.

Here it is. Cutting any part of the compound leaf would leave a triangular hole. I just don't see anything to do except take out the whole compound leaf.
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