MFP’s 2-3 year cmeg JBP

[MrFancyPlants]

just a few @cmeg1 JBP I’m working with. The smaller ones are younger, but I also withheld fertilizer and did some early season decandling. I want to work one or more of the small ones into a mame or shohin formal upright, if possible. So I have been trying to keep things small, but will run out some sacrifice next year.
The bigger ones were fully decandled last year ( except the sacrifice), which I plan on doing again this year at the end of July. Over the winter I’ll do a light pruning for bifurcation, and in spring repot back into the baskets and assessing for design options, potting angle and branch and sacrifice selection.
That’s the current plan, though not a reliable indicator of future implementations.

 

[cmeg1]

Awesome…WOW!

 

[MrFancyPlants]

I thinking this is a 5 or 6 year old tree from @cmeg1 . It was neglected for several years, but I think it has turned a corner recently and might turn into a nice tree yet. It has more movement then most of my pine, due to being in a can that was knocked over and escaped during the period of neglect.
Also cool, it looks like it is already producing coconuts. It really speaks to cmegs horticultural skills to be producing coconuts on such a young tree.

I early and lightly decandled just now and took off the fertilizer tabs. Might do it again in another month and decide on some of those sacrifices.

 

[cmeg1]

Wow!
So the coconut is an butterfly cacoon?

I am growing these .
I have seedlings outside and only pines over the winter on the way.

I have taken a fondness to seedlings this season for the outdoor grow.


I THINK THIS LOOKS GREAT THOUGH!
Thanks for the horticultural compliment.

I too had one that completely dried to a bone several times and the only damage noted was dry rings on the needles here and there that resembled needle cast and were just actually dehydration rings.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Wow!
So the coconut is an butterfly cacoon?

I am growing these .
I have seedlings outside and only pines over the winter on the way.

I have taken a fondness to seedlings this season for the outdoor grow.


I THINK THIS LOOKS GREAT THOUGH!
Thanks for the horticultural compliment.

I too had one that completely dried to a bone several times and the only damage noted was dry rings on the needles here and there that resembled needle cast and were just actually dehydration rings.

I think it is a wasp nest of some sort, but I could be wrong.
The density I’ve gotten out of your stock is incredible. Hopefully, this will be a tight little tree, when I let the birds fly through in a year or two.

I had an idea for a batch, but maybe try the method to lay a screen over the seedlings to get some variety in the rootage angles of the seedlings, before seedling cutting. It may be a terrible idea, but a peanut for thought.

 

[cmeg1]

I think it is a wasp nest of some sort, but I could be wrong.
The density I’ve gotten out of your stock is incredible. Hopefully, this will be a tight little tree, when I let the birds fly through in a year or two.

I had an idea for a batch, but maybe try the method to lay a screen over the seedlings to get some variety in the rootage angles of the seedlings, before seedling cutting. It may be a terrible idea, but a peanut for thought.

The cuttings are great,but the seedlings are equally fantastic,especially if started in a little 1.5” stonewool cube.Great natural root-pruning.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Completed the “decandling” on a bunch of these this week. A little later than last year, due to travel. I’m giving them some organic fertilizer to make up for the late timing. Mid July would have been more appropriate due to late freezes near the beach.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Oops this was the one I posted before. Headed in a similar direction as I think both were knocked over during their period of neglect.

 

[cmeg1]

Wow thanks for posting.

Looks like some good neglect.
Nice trunks on them!