Literati pitch pine

Very nice work. Looks like it’s all barking up just fine. I’d love to see a few of those lower think branches become jin as they thicken. Although, I must say, I don’t remember pitch pines having much in the way of jin in their natural form. I’ve seen that more with eastern white pines.

What are pitch pines like when attempting radical bends? It’s well known that Japanese red pines can easily snap when bends aren’t gradual, while JWPs are in my experience pretty flexible.
 
Nice work! Do you have photos from earlier in its development?
 
Looking good, looks like it pushed hard last year! Well done.
 
Dropping branch; any chance you would drop straight down instead of current angle and add bend to upper straight section of it?
 
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Repotted into a Jan Culek stone IMG_7651.jpeg

The pot it was in was suffocating it and it had a lot of circling roots not a lot of good mycorrhizae either but it was ok
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I mostly touched roots w nursery soil and left the native root and core in tact
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Got a bit creative using so screen to hold in some bigger roots that were still not quite below the line of the stone.

I will wire in the fall … gonna be a good push this year too
 
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