Newbies - want to share your trees?
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Lumaca
Mame
Inspired by the 6 year contest, I checked on my pines and saw some wire bites.
The deepest bite
Unwired just in time, prob my fave with all the lower buds.
The control, left unwired and grew very bushy but concentrated in a single spot. Spider mite magnet.
The deepest bite
Unwired just in time, prob my fave with all the lower buds.
The control, left unwired and grew very bushy but concentrated in a single spot. Spider mite magnet.
Deep Sea Diver
Imperial Masterpiece
Not to worry about those wire marks on that particular tree. Now if it was an azalea, I'd say just about right.
Its ok to leave the wire on longer and let it bite about 1/3 of the diameter of the wire before unwiring on most pines. That's because you need to get the branch to set and stay, something pines don't like to do, amongst others. This generally takes a couple three wirings.... Watch the bark "shoulders" next to the wire. Their growth and cragginess with cover up the marks fairly soon.
Keep up the good efforts!
cheers
DSD sends
Its ok to leave the wire on longer and let it bite about 1/3 of the diameter of the wire before unwiring on most pines. That's because you need to get the branch to set and stay, something pines don't like to do, amongst others. This generally takes a couple three wirings.... Watch the bark "shoulders" next to the wire. Their growth and cragginess with cover up the marks fairly soon.
Keep up the good efforts!
cheers
DSD sends
Lumaca
Mame
That was my thought too because the end result shoukd be MUCH bigger than this hahaha. I,m trying to decide if I should wire straight away, and how to position the new wires in regards to the old wound.
Deep Sea Diver
Imperial Masterpiece
Give it some time!
Sure, just wire in the opposite direction.
I have seen some folks continue wiring the second time in the same direction. One has to offset the pattern. Yet I personally would not recommend it.
cheers
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Lumaca
Mame
Next year's work then hahaha. I never expected pines to be this prickly though. Not quite as bad as cypress and juniper but still annoying.
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
Bumping for this year's batch of addicts
BeepBeepBonsaiSheep
Chumono
Colorado
Masterpiece
TheAfroKing
Seedling
Oh... this is a neat thread
I've posted a few of these before but here's all of them.
My first (second tree, killed the first, tried to keep it indoors and didn't know any better.) Juniper. Had it since last August.
Spruce that I bought last month. Not sure yet how I want to style it but waiting for it to thicken up first, excited to see how it does this summer.
The rest of these are the result of my first collection expedition. I got them all from my parent's property, I got them all in some cheep soil and crappy plastic pots as they are all learning experiences and although I'm going to try my darndest to keep them alive I'm not attached to them and there are plenty more where they came from. (Species identification might be off, really is best guess and relying on my dad to know what trees were on the property and though he's pretty good with plants in general he didn't plant any of them so... yeah, may be misidentified).
Pretty sure this is a Chinese Elm. Actually has a ton of root support, I would be surprised if this one didn't make it.
Not sure 100% what this one is but dad thought is was a locust of some kind, parents have a few on their property. Should be easier to identify once the leaves show up.
Needs a bit of clean up but I was more concerned with just getting it into a pot. Really cool naturally growing raft style though. Russian Olive is the guess on the species, big ones have some pretty nasty thorns on them.
(I'm realizing how bad of a photographer I am) Twin trunk Chinese Elm. Tree was apperently cut down to stump, came back, cut down again, poisoned, and came back again and was probably 5 feet or so when I pulled it out of the ground. (Speaks to the hardiness of the species).
This is going to be my wiring practice tree, thinking something spirally but not sure yet, want to see leaves first. Again Chinese Elm.
I've posted a few of these before but here's all of them.
My first (second tree, killed the first, tried to keep it indoors and didn't know any better.) Juniper. Had it since last August.
Spruce that I bought last month. Not sure yet how I want to style it but waiting for it to thicken up first, excited to see how it does this summer.
The rest of these are the result of my first collection expedition. I got them all from my parent's property, I got them all in some cheep soil and crappy plastic pots as they are all learning experiences and although I'm going to try my darndest to keep them alive I'm not attached to them and there are plenty more where they came from. (Species identification might be off, really is best guess and relying on my dad to know what trees were on the property and though he's pretty good with plants in general he didn't plant any of them so... yeah, may be misidentified).
Pretty sure this is a Chinese Elm. Actually has a ton of root support, I would be surprised if this one didn't make it.
Not sure 100% what this one is but dad thought is was a locust of some kind, parents have a few on their property. Should be easier to identify once the leaves show up.
Needs a bit of clean up but I was more concerned with just getting it into a pot. Really cool naturally growing raft style though. Russian Olive is the guess on the species, big ones have some pretty nasty thorns on them.
(I'm realizing how bad of a photographer I am) Twin trunk Chinese Elm. Tree was apperently cut down to stump, came back, cut down again, poisoned, and came back again and was probably 5 feet or so when I pulled it out of the ground. (Speaks to the hardiness of the species).
This is going to be my wiring practice tree, thinking something spirally but not sure yet, want to see leaves first. Again Chinese Elm.
TheAfroKing
Seedling
I love the bark on that rosemary! I'd be tempted to use some of it for cooking myself, probably wouldn't be the best idea for something that you're trying to work on...
Clorgan
Omono
Here's my elm I'm working on
19Mateo83
Masterpiece
Does these count?
First picture is my nursery area. Oaks, maples, willows, Osage oranges and lots more.
Second picture is my Japanese maple collection. Shishigashiras, deshojos, Lima gold, tamukeyama, summer gold, atropurpureum
Third picture is bald cypresses and trident maples on their way back to the nursery area.
Fourth picture is a juniper chinensis
Fifth picture is hornbeams, a liquidambar, a honey suckle collected this year and an olive and a random maple group.
The sixth is a muscadine
My collection so far. There is more and there’s tropical inside. not all will be kept and all of the seedlings are for sale.
First picture is my nursery area. Oaks, maples, willows, Osage oranges and lots more.
Second picture is my Japanese maple collection. Shishigashiras, deshojos, Lima gold, tamukeyama, summer gold, atropurpureum
Third picture is bald cypresses and trident maples on their way back to the nursery area.
Fourth picture is a juniper chinensis
Fifth picture is hornbeams, a liquidambar, a honey suckle collected this year and an olive and a random maple group.
The sixth is a muscadine
My collection so far. There is more and there’s tropical inside. not all will be kept and all of the seedlings are for sale.
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HorseloverFat
Squarepants with Conkers
Totally DOES count!
That Muscadine is neat!
A collected liquidambar? How long have you had it?
19Mateo83
Masterpiece
I collected it a week or two ago. It’s nothing really special. There’s one more I want to collect that’s got crazy corky bark
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rollwithak
Chumono
A few of my new ones since this threat was last active! Just trimmed and wired my ficus….. Japanese maple, shimpaku juniper, and interior live oak….
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ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
I respectfully but heartily disagree!
Trees we can eat! What's better than that?
Gotta do something with the trimmings when you prune anyway.
TheAfroKing
Seedling
I didn't think about using the trimmings, you could even dry them yourself and use them long after you were done trimming.
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
Before finally jumping in both feet a couple years ago, my last dismissal attempt at bonsai was almost 20 years ago. One of the things that got me going again was looking for ways to keep something like the summer garden going all year. That and my oldest daughter said one day that she wished there was a way to have a little version of that cool tree we saw on a hike in the woods.
BeepBeepBonsaiSheep
Chumono
I’d keep the trimming for seasoning… if I used seasoning. We don’t do any fancy cooking here. Mostly prepackaged stuff
I may do some trimming of them soon. I’m trying to decide on how to shade my bench before it gets too blast furnace here
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