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[Tom Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>]

Hello All,

Is it possible to dwarf a tree using scar tissue?

I only ask, as last season I had a spare apple rootstock and decided I would 
try to bonsai it.  I wrapped a piece of plastic coated, copper wire around 
the whip from the ground up.  I then promptly forgot about it.

Now the wire created a wound that spirales up the tree, and the bark is 
healing over it.  Every spiral of the wire creates a scar that makes nutrient 
flow more difficult.

Will this work as a dwarfing technique?

Just curious.

Later,
Tom
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Thomas Olenio
Ontario, Canada
Hardiness Zone 5b