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Regge991 t1_ircio85 wrote

Reply to comment by DrunkenMasterII in The best tool to trim your bushes by madredditscientist

It was the lecturer stressing the importance of cutting back to growth points, but it's the kind of thing where as soon as we leave the classroom it's back to swinging off a Stihl 2 stroke.

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DrunkenMasterII t1_ircl3tq wrote

Oh well it does make sense. I mean I don’t know how are arborist classes, but I studied horticulture focused on food production and lots of the learning was about keeping plants healthy and productive and I’ve seen my fair share of right vs wrong way of trimming. I’ve seen so many botched jobs on hedges or bushes where people basically just kill branches by over cutting, so I understand the goal. Still could’ve given the same information without having you cut a shit ton of them.

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Regge991 t1_irclapb wrote

I think it was the campus exploiting free student labor tbh. We spent 2 days doing every hedge in the school

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