JPB an ScottsPine

[rollwithak]

L

I see that you say you don’t cut candles on scots pines. The video I linked shows Bjorn cutting them. I’m new to pines.

Probably depends a lot on what stage of the trees development it is in.

 

[Shibui]

I'm not sure the soil in my yard is real fertail. What I mean is any where that you did you will get a shovel full of black or almost black dirt an worms.

Pines generally don't care what the soil is like. They can grow in really poor soils on mountain sides so anything better than rock will be OK.
Fertility can be added. The biggest thing is that the roots have room to grow to get growth above ground too.

 

[Haxor Dave]

Pines generally don't care what the soil is like. They can grow in really poor soils on mountain sides so anything better than rock will be OK.
Fertility can be added. The biggest thing is that the roots have room to grow to get growth above ground too.

The pin is in a perlite vermilite and coconut core mix. Little heavy on the core do to hot weather comeing .

 

[Paradox]

L

I see that you say you don’t cut candles on scots pines. The video I linked shows Bjorn cutting them. I’m new to pines.

OK this is a problem with using the same terminology for different techniques as it can become confusing.

As I was learning, the term "cutting candles" was referring to removing the entire candle from the stem.
We only do this with JBP and JRP, it is not done on scots or other single flush pines.

Bjorn actually states this at 2:30 and at 3:10 in the video.
Yes he is actually "cutting" the candle but he is cutting it in half, not the entire candle.
People that taught me generally referred to this as "pinching" as we usually used our fingers to pinch back the shoot rather than cut with a candle which he shows at 10:00
I find pinching to be faster and easier as there is less chance of cutting the new extending needles

At 5:40 he shows exactly what he is doing and it is "pruning back" the existing candles., not completely removing them except in areas he wants to reduce the density of shoots.

In any case, it is going to be a very long time before you are going to need to worry about this as your pine will need many years of growing before they are ready for this technique

 

[amcoffeegirl]

OK this is a problem with using the same terminology for different techniques as it can become confusing.

As I was learning, the term "cutting candles" was referring to removing the entire candle from the stem.
We only do this with JBP and JRP, it is not done on scots or other single flush pines.

Bjorn actually states this at 2:30 and at 3:10 in the video.
Yes he is actually "cutting" the candle but he is cutting it in half, not the entire candle.
People that taught me generally referred to this as "pinching" as we usually used our fingers to pinch back the shoot rather than cut with a candle which he shows at 10:00
I find pinching to be faster and easier as there is less chance of cutting the new extending needles

At 5:40 he shows exactly what he is doing and it is "pruning back" the existing candles., not completely removing them except in areas he wants to reduce the density of shoots.

In any case, it is going to be a very long time before you are going to need to worry about this as your pine will need many years of growing before they are ready for this technique

Very good. Thank you for the detailed response.
If I can care for these then I may try to locate more advanced material to try.

 

[Haxor Dave]

I wasn't expecting to do much of anything with it for a while. Once trunk isn't green I'm going to wire the trunk an put some movement in it.