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« on: January 27, 2024, 02:56:41 AM »
Yeah, I thought that too when I read their method. I went about it a little bit different than them. Since I had read so much about the associations between node count and flowering, I figured I should try to get the plant to grow as tall as possible as quickly as possible. At the same time I had read that yuzu can sometimes flower on the lower branches at the beginning. Therefore, I didn't cut the side branches off but instead trained them to the horizontal like is done in intensive apple orchards in order to maintain the apical dominance of the central leader. In my mind that had the extra advantage that the lower branches would contribute with their photosynthesis to the total growth of the tree. The growth was truly impressive in that often a new growth spurt began before the old one had completely hardened off. I also ask myself if the use of horn meal as a nitrogen source also played a role in that it provided a gradual slow release of nutrients. I am always careful with horn meal though after having given the plants ammonia poisoning with it. That wasn't pretty.
The tree ended up bending over on its own and I believe it was due to two factors. For one it had simply gotten so tall it hit the ceiling of my apartment. That caused it to bend over. Then, when I took it outside the new growth was so green that it was able to support it's own weight and ended up bending over because my plant stake wasn't able to reach up to the very top of the plant.