They say you should talk to your plants to make them grow better, so we just had to share this story from our cousin Ernie in Montana:

“This tree's name is Lucky. It was hit at an early age by cultivator. It was stunted with a crook in the base. Didn't grow well. One day I told my wife JoAnn I was going to cut it off . She went out, gave it a good shaking telling it to get growing or else! That was 4 years ago. It has grown from about the height of the lower branches to what it is today.”