Huangshan pine in training.

[Wilson]

These are coming along well. Great fun to develop material like this, and you do a great job documenting. Thanks again for sharing.

 

[bonhe]

These are coming along well. Great fun to develop material like this, and you do a great job documenting. Thanks again for sharing.

Thank you very much for your kind words! I try my best to document my training process. Hopefully it will help others in the future.
Yes, I really like to work on this pine so far. I can not wait to see their final images!
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[bonhe]

I want to show you how I train these pines

In the near future, I will cut off the trunk right above 2 branches ( red line). I will use these branches as trunk and branch. The yellow line is showing the future trunk line . I will mainly use cut and grow technique and only wire as


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[bonhe]

Under the water through misty system, their young shoots just collapse. It means their branches are so soft and flexible. Based on this characteristics, I can understand why this pine has its own specific shape in nature.


By the way, so far it has been growing very well in my hot and dry area! I really like it.
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[bonhe]

They are growing very well at this time and waiting for training this year. They were under early morning sunlight.


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[MaciekA]

In spite of their water-laden drooping earlier in the year it looks like they're winning the fight against gravity so far!

 

[bonhe]

They are 33 months old now.
Their growing behavior is completely different with black pine .
This one has all of its summer shoots facing to sunlight .
The red arrows is sun direction
The yellow arrows is shoot direction .


barks


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[Potawatomi13]

Smart shoots. Barking already; bark bark.

 

[bonhe]

Wow. Time is flying! These pines are 3 yo now !


The candles have light yellow color !!!


The shoot is greenish yellow with one needle, but there are bundles at the base of these needles .


the 3 yo bark


the 2 yo bark


one yo bark


Very interesting to watch out this pine !
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[bonhe]

Some trees.


It will be more interesting in few years !
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[bonhe]

I finished pruning,wiring and fertilizing for 37 trees a week ago!
Before


After



I just want to take pictures of a few trees
This one had a straight trunk right there


it was wired and bent


This one also had straight trunk there


It was wired and bent


I cut all the old needles in the upper parts of the trees to let sunlight can touch down to the lower parts .
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[bonhe]

Another tree


This branch will be trained to the trunk. It is focal point for this tree


as you can see, there are heavy wire marks on the trunk line ! Do I care about it ? Not really! I recognized that Huangshan pine responds well with scar in a good way!
Look at these. These were a bad scar last year, and now, they are almost faint away!


These used to be wounds in the past.


By the way, I love their barks.
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[MaciekA]

Nice wound closing and nice bark progress!

 

[bonhe]

Nice wound closing and nice bark progress!

Thanks
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[bonhe]

These tree are 39 months old now. They are still growing strongly. From the first Spring, they already have 2 growth sprouts!
I took pictures on two of them.


2 sprouts from this growing season . Yellow arrow is pointed to the border





They will be pruned in July .

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[MaxChavez]

Hello, I really enjoyed this thread. Can you share any updates this year?
considering ordering some seeds!