Japonicus
Imperial Masterpiece
I'll start with this one.
I don't have a thread for the development of any of my few meager Sargent junipers.
I only have 4 plus maybe 4 cuttings waiting to strike. One is once again ghosting on me due to spider mites. Ghosting as in fading colour. One in ground 2 years and one potted up better than 10 years ago. It is quite the aggressive grower.
Foliage is similar to procumbens runners but becomes more coarse just inside the profile, making them a little prickly, more so with age. Not so sure they're best suited for shohin size due to how coarse the pads get with time, but I have an idea to start working it down to shohin over a couple stylings and see how long I stay with it.
Could change my mind as letting it run will have its benefits.
I'll start with the one in the 3g can here on the left.
Exposed the proposed trunk I found at the nursery.
Getting a feel of the angle I want the trunk at. Decided a pond basket would be best bet for the development of the rootball.
The trunk is only 3/4-1 inch diameter.
Did not need repotting. Most of the roots are on the perimeter of the can. The wholesale nursery G&G simply up pots and triples the cost. Thete was 3 different soils that gave no trouble to remove and rake out.
Left about 3 or so inches of roots.
Interior roots lacking vigour.
Back side
Also, this particular juniper shows evidence of hedge pruning unlike others I saw.
Sargent juniper bark matures different and faster than procumbens. The trunk develops much much faster as well. Which also has me rethinking the shohin size, but I see two shohin options in it.
Keeping both legs of foliage for recovery sake for now. Right now the trunks make an X.
I don't have a thread for the development of any of my few meager Sargent junipers.
I only have 4 plus maybe 4 cuttings waiting to strike. One is once again ghosting on me due to spider mites. Ghosting as in fading colour. One in ground 2 years and one potted up better than 10 years ago. It is quite the aggressive grower.
Foliage is similar to procumbens runners but becomes more coarse just inside the profile, making them a little prickly, more so with age. Not so sure they're best suited for shohin size due to how coarse the pads get with time, but I have an idea to start working it down to shohin over a couple stylings and see how long I stay with it.
Could change my mind as letting it run will have its benefits.
I'll start with the one in the 3g can here on the left.
Exposed the proposed trunk I found at the nursery.
Getting a feel of the angle I want the trunk at. Decided a pond basket would be best bet for the development of the rootball.
The trunk is only 3/4-1 inch diameter.
Did not need repotting. Most of the roots are on the perimeter of the can. The wholesale nursery G&G simply up pots and triples the cost. Thete was 3 different soils that gave no trouble to remove and rake out.
Left about 3 or so inches of roots.
Interior roots lacking vigour.
Back side
Also, this particular juniper shows evidence of hedge pruning unlike others I saw.
Sargent juniper bark matures different and faster than procumbens. The trunk develops much much faster as well. Which also has me rethinking the shohin size, but I see two shohin options in it.
Keeping both legs of foliage for recovery sake for now. Right now the trunks make an X.
