This video explains the physiological and ecological role of epicormic buds in plant recovery following disturbance. Using a hawthorn example and the felled ...
I’m guessing from those epicormic shoots you would then train a leader? I don’t think pines get epicormic shoots either when they die back or are cut to the base they don’t send up those shoots.
I’m not sure what will happen in this example where the main trunk was cut down to a stump.
Maybe our descendants decades from now will see a squat branchy hedge like thing emanating from the stump, or maybe some shoots will curl back and grow out over the stump top, resulting in something that appears more tree-like.
I’m guessing from those epicormic shoots you would then train a leader? I don’t think pines get epicormic shoots either when they die back or are cut to the base they don’t send up those shoots.
You’d still want a balanced tree though.
Best to let nature take its course.
I’m not sure what will happen in this example where the main trunk was cut down to a stump.
Maybe our descendants decades from now will see a squat branchy hedge like thing emanating from the stump, or maybe some shoots will curl back and grow out over the stump top, resulting in something that appears more tree-like.
It’ll look like these if left alone: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/coppiced-tree-winter-woodland.html?pseudoid=C06657A9-750C-4B78-A69A-8E981609AE0E&sortBy=relevant
They don’t. Conifers just die when cut back.