How does a siberian elm hold up in a storm?
This is the tree that fills the phone after an Indiana ice storm. Weak brittle wood plus included bark at nearly every branch union means whole leaders tear out under ice or a straight-line wind gust, frequently ripping a long strip of trunk with them and leaving what remains badly unbalanced.
What pruning can and can't prevent
There is no pruning schedule that redeems a Siberian elm — by the time anyone looks, most are already a mass of included-bark unions and old sprout regrowth. If you're keeping one, realistic maintenance is dormant-season weight reduction over the target plus removal of dead and crossing wood; topping it, which people do constantly, produces a dense head of weakly attached sprouts that fails harder in the next storm than the original limbs did.
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