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ISS-03
Mekiri & Winter Dormancy: The Seasonal Discipline of Japanese Black Pine
Plate I
Mid-summer second-flush bud back-budding following complete candle excision.
Det.
Kenji Morimoto
Master Ligneous Cultivator
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Reading
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Understanding apical dominance, summer candle decandling, and obligatory chill-hour physiology in Pinus thunbergii bonsai.
Balancing Auxin Across the Canopy
Left unpruned, Pinus thunbergii channels growth hormone preferentially to its highest apical shoots, starving lower structural branches. By excising elongating spring candles in June (mekiri), the tree is induced to produce a secondary summer flush with shorter internodes and compact needle fascicles.
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