Oh, wow. I suppose that when in a large nursery setting with thousands of trees, that’s about the best he can do.Damn, the cultivar has such short needles tho. Might buy one and make cuttings + sow seeds. Google says if you do it right a certain percentage will strike, up to 50%.
Theres some scots pine and beuvronensis scots pine in this video, for reference
Good. It may not even need that lowest “drop” branch. The foliage is so far away from the trunk, it spoils the image. There’s just too much mass there.
Good. It may not even need that lowest “drop” branch. The foliage is so far away from the trunk, it spoils the image. There’s just too much mass there.
On the other hand, if it were Jin, that might aid in depicting an old tree.
Something to think about...
Thanks, Jeff,You could grow some regular Scots Pine from seed, do the cutting thing on them to start a great nebari, then do a really low graft of the Beuvronensis onto that as the root stock.
This is what I plan to do, I've got a lot of recently cut Scots Pines right now, hopefully they'll pull through like my JBP did earlier this year.
I Like keri-wms' ground layer idea though, if it works a 3+ year head start on my approach.
sad to hear about the damage by fungus gnats, my JBP (2-3 seedlings out of 16 have been eaten, I mean only the stem and needles were remaining and I was wondering what happened overnight). It could be fungus gnats (growing media was only milled sphagnum moss).Hi Win320,
Sadly my scots cuttings got annihilated by fungus gnat larvae. They got in at the cutting point and ate up thru the stems.
I started a new grow of scots and have used tourniquets instead to do early root pruning. Too early to say how well this has gone, I'll now repot them in Aug/Sept, and will update then!