Is it too late in the season to trunk chop a chinese juniper???

Vance Wood said:
I am saying it may even be beneficial. I've made this point perviously but I will run it by you again. If the Juniper is more foliage dependent for the support of the tree reducing down the foliage is going to create an imbalance in that the roots are going to be calling for nutrients from foliage no longer available. If the roots are reduced then you reduce the demand on the top of the tree.

In this case, where the top has been so drastically reduced, reducing the roots may be the only way of saving the tree. The idea that "gee, I have all these roots supporting just this little bit of foliage, that's got to be good." It doesn't work that way, the mass of roots will continue to demand resources from a top that is no longer there and the top that remains will be sucked dry by this activity. This is what I believe and this is what history in my experience has shown.
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I plan on mixing my soil, root pruning, and repotting today.
-Mike
 
By the way, my juniper has already started back budding on the main trunk since I made the big chop.
 
Cypress said:
By the way, my juniper has already started back budding on the main trunk since I made the big chop.
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Thats good news. Don't cut off any of the back budding from the old wood you may need it for more than decorations.
 
Vance Wood said:
Thats good news. Don't cut off any of the back budding from the old wood you may need it for more than decorations.
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Figured. I'm letting this tree grow however it wants for a while.
 
Cypress said:
Figured. I'm letting this tree grow however it wants for a while.
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Wisdom in few words. Junipers take a while to establish a good balance between roots and top.
 
Redwood Ryan said:
Still don't understand how a tongue in cheek comment that ended with an emoji was harsh but OKAY.

Anyway, let's return to our regularly scheduled program.
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I was referring to my comment previous to that, not yours man.
 
Thanks Rob for asking...
I just finished reading the whole darn thing...better than Tuesday night tv...
But I am curious...
How's the juniper doing?
Heck, Mach5 waited 15 years... Just sayin
 
Hahaha. It seems to be doing alright. Foliage is still all green and it's alive! So that's a good sign. Not much for new growth yet, but we'll see. Keeping my fingers crossed.
 
That is a good sign. When you can and if you want, post some pics. :D

Rob
 
It had seemed to make it through the winter, I posted a separate thread for it when I styled it a few months ago. This thread turned into such a circus I just started a new one. The foliage was looking really green, but as of a month ago it started to rapidly kick the bucket when it started getting warmer. I think the roots weren't doing well. And the styling surely put stress on it, but after pulling it up after it died I think it would have gone anyway.

This is the new thread: http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?14263-This-Juniper-should-be-dead-but-it-is-not!-Update&highlight=juniper

At least I got some wiring practice in though, and I've got 6 decent sized junipers in development that are doing well, I picked up almost all of them in the fall for 3 bucks a piece. Nursery just trying to get rid of them. I did some (relatively heavy) preliminary pruning this past winter, repotted them this spring, and they're all pushing new growth and backbudding like mad. I was aiming to force backbudding, to get foliage closer to the trunk, with all these and it seems my pruning method worked quite well. I will post a thread for all those eventually.
 
Cypress said:
It had seemed to make it through the winter, I posted a separate thread for it when I styled it a few months ago. This thread turned into such a circus I just started a new one. The foliage was looking really green, but as of a month ago it started to rapidly kick the bucket when it started getting warmer. I think the roots weren't doing well. And the styling surely put stress on it, but after pulling it up after it died I think it would have gone anyway.

This is the new thread: http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?14263-This-Juniper-should-be-dead-but-it-is-not!-Update&highlight=juniper

At least I got some wiring practice in though, and I've got 6 decent sized junipers in development that are doing well, I picked up almost all of them in the fall for 3 bucks a piece. Nursery just trying to get rid of them. I did some (relatively heavy) preliminary pruning this past winter, repotted them this spring, and they're all pushing new growth and backbudding like mad. I was aiming to force backbudding, to get foliage closer to the trunk, with all these and it seems my pruning method worked quite well. I will post a thread for all those eventually.
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hhmmm....sounds like BVF's slot machine puked up lemons?
 
I wonder if Cypress ever got in touch with Bill V.?
 
Dav4 said:
Just shot a nice merlot out my nose!! Why isn't there a sticky or thread here at Bnut for best posts/quotes...monthly, yearly, it doesn't matter. This one should be on it.
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Best threads, posts, comments! Kinda like these? I used to ride a 600RR.
 
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