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The dragon tree will grow its trunk first, it will flare out the middle, then it starts to form its next set of branching. From where it initially starts to branch…
The leaf structure will come out in the initial year and then you’ll start to see some trunk starting to form on these little branches.
Where the green reads the brown on the leaf right there on the dragon tree. As you can see just here, that’s where we cut them.
We get clients that ring up asking about stripping the leaves off. What happens is with the dragon tree, guys, if you do strip the leaves off…
Once it’s flowered, the dragon tree will not feed the original leaves. It stops feeding those leaves and it starts to focus on the small branches coming through on the sides.
I often get a phone call to say, “Okay, when’s my dragon tree going to flower?” Or, “When are the branches going to start coming out?”