Our English Morello cherry’s pruned and shortened branches were quite stiff and quite determined to stay as upwards-facing as possible last Saturday when I planted it. Like I mentioned, that can lead to broken boughs in years to come so even though there wasn’t much to anchor them against I did what I could with some of the smallest spacers to try to stretch the wood earthward a bit.
Tonight I went out to see if by very small chance I could reposition things a little. I truly did not expect to.
I could. Rather easily, actually, I could even get a medium spacer in one place now and the angles are noticeably improved.
Who knew that making a few very small changes and allowing it some time would help it become flexible enough to accept the better points of viewing to come?