First Pine: A Little Mugo Progression

[JoeR]

Morning everybody,

I am starting a thread to keep track of my first pine. This is some sort of a dwarf mugo pine, not sure of the specific cultivar.

Some info.
I got this from Plant City Bonsai in early summer. Repotted it mid summer. Wired it yesterday to open the inside up to get light and thus backbuds and to set a basic structure. Very difficult to wire as It's only a meer 5" from the pot rim to tip of crown.

Before, ready for work:




During repot:


After repot:


And today after first wiring and setting branch structure:



That paper is covering a branch that needs to be removed and actually is black. Im not sure why it looks purple.

 

[JoeR]

Structure:



And a lighter for scale.


Needs some more tweaking but for now Im going to let it recover.




Comments are welcome!

Dont judge the wiring, its very small and I had a hard time doing it with not so small hands. I dont normally use guage 18 and 20 very often.

 

[Alain]

Nice little buddy!

You should use it to come aboard the mugo train, tons of mugo's nuts will be there to comments (including Vance Wood, the mugo's Jedi Master )

 

[JoeR]

Nice little buddy!

You should use it to come aboard the mugo train, tons of mugo's nuts will be there to comments (including Vance Wood, the mugo's Jedi Master )

Yup its on there already. Vance is the one that guided me through it.

 

[bonsaiboy60077]

Nice little tree. Just got these two.

 

[TreeJunkie]

Update on this tree?