Hartinez
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Hopefully I don’t eat crow come spring.Well, I am going to find out this year …We got about a foot of snow last night and it’s still coming down!
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Colorado’s Literati Piñon Pine
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vancehanna
Omono
Nice start all the way around. Needs a 'literati' style pot.
Colorado
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Thanks, Vance! What kind/shape of literati pot would you recommend?
Hartinez
Masterpiece
So can I assume the tree pushed through winter without incident TJ?
Colorado
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Yeah man! I left it outside all winter with my other Rocky Mountain natives and it didn’t seem to skip a beat. It has candles extending now
just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
That's a cool tree, love some bunjin.
Hartinez
Masterpiece
Noice! Pinch that middle candle in favor of 2Yeah man! I left it outside all winter with my other Rocky Mountain natives and it didn’t seem to skip a beat. It has candles extending now
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Colorado
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Noice! Pinch that middle candle in favor of 2
Thanks for the reminder!
I need to do that all over the tree. Once the candles extend more I am also going to cut all the candles to about the same length to try to balance the energy across the whole tree. Although it’s already pretty well balanced as it is.
vancehanna
Omono
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This simple asymmetric shape
Colorado
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I am very happy with this tree this spring. It is showing great strength and relatively balanced energy all over the tree.
That being said, I am continuing to work on more balanced energy distribution. Today I pinched the candles for the second time this spring. When I say pinch, I mean that I use pruning shears to cut the candles to the desired length. Most of the tree has multiple candles, with one much stronger than the other one or two, such as this:
So I cut the stronger candle to match the strength of the other one, like this:
I also removed a candle entirely where there were 3, but that was only in a few spots. It was mostly just 2 candles. The apex is getting nice and strong, lots of vigorous candles!
Maybe eventually I will prune/pinch all the candles to a certain length. I haven’t fully figured out piñon yet. I want to see if cutting the candles makes the needles longer.
In any event, having fun with this one learning about the species and how to handle it!
That being said, I am continuing to work on more balanced energy distribution. Today I pinched the candles for the second time this spring. When I say pinch, I mean that I use pruning shears to cut the candles to the desired length. Most of the tree has multiple candles, with one much stronger than the other one or two, such as this:
So I cut the stronger candle to match the strength of the other one, like this:
I also removed a candle entirely where there were 3, but that was only in a few spots. It was mostly just 2 candles. The apex is getting nice and strong, lots of vigorous candles!
Maybe eventually I will prune/pinch all the candles to a certain length. I haven’t fully figured out piñon yet. I want to see if cutting the candles makes the needles longer.
In any event, having fun with this one learning about the species and how to handle it!
