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Winged elm getting a little more developed.
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Water Elm forest. Trunks have definitely thickened up over the last couple years.
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Little Chinese elm likes to hold on to its leaves. Even after a couple nice frosts. Need to clean the moss off the trunk again
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Twin trunk chinese elm looking pretty odd. I'm letting the 2nd trunk grow tall to get a little thicker. I stripped the leaves off of it the other day but need to finish up the main trunk.
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
Great Tree! The bark on this tree looks different than my American elms. How do you tell the difference between American, Ceder, Chinese, etc?
VAFisher
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My thread graft on the cedar elm acted weird this year. The leaves on the important side shriveled on it twice after threading it through and then it gave up. The branch is still alive so I'm hopeful it gets going next year.
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Thanks! This is still a pretty young tree so I'm hoping the bark develops with time. I've only had the tree for 5 or 6 years now and I doubt it was more than a few years old when Zach collected it. I'm not sure how long it takes for the bark to develop. As for telling them apart, there are differences in the leaves of all these species. And the winged and cedar have the wings that the others don't.
Gustavo Martins
Omono
I like the image of the tree with the single main tree a lot. It goes for a tall feminine tree. Not sure how much better it may be with the second trunk...
VAFisher
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Thanks. This pic shows the image I'm going for - more or less. Just with a thicker secondary trunk. I like it more as a twin trunk but it can always be hacked off if I decide to take it back to a single trunk tree.
Actually, comparing these 2 pics, I've gotten some pretty decent thickening this year. I think it needs a little more though, so I'll let it keep going for a while next year.
Eckhoffw
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Love that pot too!
VAFisher
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Did some cleanup and cutback on the forest today.
Started with this.
Got pretty ruthless with it.
Started with this.
Got pretty ruthless with it.
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I did a little more work on the water elm forest before it goes away for the winter. I shortened the trees a bit more and reduced the soil mound to uncover some "interesting" surface roots.
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Spring updates on my elms. First up is the American. The bark is starting to slowly form now. It was repotted in March but stayed in this Richard Robertson oval. I was able to remove a big ugly root that came off the back of the trunk. The flare at the base is getting better but the nebari still isn't great. One of my favorite trees and pots.
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This winged elm was repotted in March into this Chuck Iker oval. I really like the form of this one. There is an approach graft in the middle of the tree that seems to be solidly attached now but I don't trust it since my grafting technique is suspect at best. Hopefully it works because it would really hurt the image if it doesn't.
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Another winged elm. This was ground layered and chopped a couple years ago. I'm attempting to make a small broom. I repotted it into this slightly deeper pot to hopefully gain some steam this year. Long way to go but coming along.
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Shohin Chinese Elm. I'm not sure but this might be the tree I've owned the longest at this point. It hasn't changed much in several years with the exception of some peeling bark. Might need to moss it again to hide that ugly base a little. Potted in a Paul Olson oval.
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Another Chinese Elm potted in a Sara Rayner. I repotted it in March to get it lower in the pot but messed up the planting angle again. I'll have to fix that next year. Still working on the smaller trunk but I'm making a little progress. I need to kill the moss on the base of this one before it hurts the bark.
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Water Elm forest. Also repotted this year. I briefly considered putting it on a slab but decided to put it back in this Sara Rayner oval. Something ate a bunch of leaves on it a couple weeks ago. I never found whatever it was but it seems to be gone now.
Moridin
Shohin
LanceMac10
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Looking good, sir!!
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