I have a few flowering plum trees and they bend a lot in the heavy rain. I am worried they will grow too wide and am wondering if tieing them up will help? My concern is that tieing them up may weaken them. Any thoughts?
for some temporary restraint you could consider Arbortie. there is a special know that they have to keep the product from girdling and it breaks down over a couple of years in sunlight if you forget to remove it after the extra weight of fruit is gone. http://www.deeproot.com/products/products.php?SL=arbortie&BL=1 http://www.deeproot.com/specs/pdfs/ArborTie_Uses_Specs.pdf