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Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:14 pm

They'll grow back for sure.

neilanh · Post by **neilanh** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:47 pm

I heard you talk about a video of you slaughtering the stems. Let's see it!

maddog10 · Post by **maddog10** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:11 pm

Jeff,

You actually believed that mumbo jumbo that Ghazanfar was spewing about trimming stems!

I wait til they hit the top, but it is because I am lazy!

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:20 pm

Jeff120 wrote:Something I forgot to ask, when do you trim the stems? When they hit the top or doesn't it matter?

I whacked my stems down to nothing but bare stems about 3" tall, sure hope they grow back!

Ha! SUCKER!!!!!!!!!!

Jeff120 · Post by **Jeff120** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:49 pm

LOL!!!

Ghazanfar Ghori · Post by **Ghazanfar Ghori** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:23 pm

Ok - here are the pictures I was planning on using - along w/ a video. I hope
this shows what extreme pruning results in.

The rough scape - no major pruning done since initial planting.

The foreground has filled in and is starting to clump up and creep over
the rockwork.

Time to go postal! MUWAAAAAAHAHAHHAHAHA!

Take THAT! That'll teach you to look overgrown.

Two weeks later...

Nice and even!

Two more weeks later....

Ben Belton · Post by **Ben Belton** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:42 pm

Wow... amazing.

Jeff120 · Post by **Jeff120** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:47 pm

AHHHH, that helps a lot, thanks, now just to put that to practice. Hope you have a chance to work on the video as that would be neat to see as well.

SCMurphy · Post by **SCMurphy** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:48 am

I must have seen it a day or two after that hacking. I honestly looked up at Ghazanfar and said, "You hacked the sh!t out of this! Nice foreground."

It just proves what he said about not being able to plant enough to make the effect, you have to draw it out of the plants. If you were to take out all the plants and try to put them back you wouldn't be able to do it. You'd have a pile of extras.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 8:53 am

Nice documentation Ghazanfar.

It's nice to know I was doing it correctly. Now I just need to employ some of your foreground trimming tips for the next photo.

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