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Reading some of the comments it's sad that there is so much myth-based hatred. No wonder we still see 30' steel and concrete walls keeping the savages apart. I was there for most of the 60's-70's. I saw Psychos hijack the Peace Movement. I saw the bodies of men. women, and children tortured with ...

2 years late but ... anyway, plant a Trident seedling in good soil (outdoors) and you can get a 3-5" trunk in as many years !

Hard prune to get the taper, and root prune every 2 years.

That's how the commercial producers do it in China and Japan, and anyone with a spare piece of ground can do the...

For those who don't know, the commercial producers grow their trees in the ground for a few years to produce the thick trunks.

My Tridents were planted as twigs 7 yrs ago in very rich soil, and one now has a 5-6" trunk. A basic mountain maple in the same 4'x6' plot has a 3" trunk.

They can be li...

Thanks ! I've got 2 similar-sized Tridents due for lifting in the Spring - you've given me some good ideas.

Good to see a real tree for a change. I'm sick of all those huge lumps of blinding-white artificial sharis with a couple of tufts of over-pruned/pinched foliage (have they ever seen a tree...