Crinodendron

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• Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

  June 2021

  elaine_guQB2qO said:

  Hi- has anyone cut back a crinodendron drastically without killing it? Mine is about 10ft tall now, with lots of “trunks”. I really need to reduce the size of it quite considerably but no idea when, how, to what extent? Any thoughts welcome!

  If you can cut some, say 1/3 of the  "trunks" in year one, and repeat in the next 2 years

  Devon.

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• elaine_guQB2qO Posts: 2

  June 2021

  Thanks for this. What about the height? Can I take some of that out too? And when is best? At the moment there are quite a few tiny flower buds just starting plus done new leaf growth.

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  June 2021

  I’ve cut them back, seems they take anything. They’ll shoot out again from the bottom. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• robairdmacraignil Posts: 782

  June 2021

  I've seen one grown as a tree and it looked much better than the multi-stemmed shrubs I have also seen. If I had one that was 10foot tall and multi-stemmed I'd try reduce it to one main trunk and try form it into a tree like the really nice mature one I saw a few years back but I guess it depends on where you have it planted.
  

  https://www.youtube.com/user/sustainableveg/videos
  

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