Newly aquired medium sized Trident,

[edprocoat]

I agree. I find that when working with people in workshops that I teach the one thing that most people here in America lack is future vision. The ability to look at material and envision a place you wish to take it or where you see it five years. I can only grasp from your statements that you feel you lack the ability to have vision. One view notwithstanding, "I" still see a great tree here. I think I have posted enough trident work over the years to know what I am talking about.

I think if we were both at the show, It makes me feel good that you would have passed this over so that I could have bought it.
Cheers, Al

Al, I have looked at quite a few of your tridents on your blog, which BTW can be clicked on in Smoke's signature line of every post by him, and I would tend to agree with your assessment. I have seen the proofs of design in the produce you document there and here as well. Many of your trees I see at the beginning and wonder what the hell will he make out of that, and I have been stunned by what looked like a twig or a stub and now looks like a tree.

ed

 

[Smoke]

Maybe about like this

 

[Smoke]

Most of the larger branches are already started. Just needs some work up top. This would be a great little tree for any collection.

 

[JudyB]

Maybe about like this

Yes, that's about what I was thinking. Thanks for the visual Al.

 

[Smoke]

Yes, that's about what I was thinking. Thanks for the visual Al.

I think you were right on track and didn't need the visual. You saw it in your mind and "that" is what it is all about. If you can't see it, one will never do it.

 

[fviljoen963]

Thanks for the virtual Smoke )
And that exactly what I was thinking with the tilt, heres some pic with it tilted, the tree was turned anticlockwise although I suspect they're not in order

edit: fixd the pics..

 

[jk_lewis]

Daylight savings ended this weekend. It appears not to have adjusted. Dunno why anyone would care.

 

[JudyB]

You'll have to turn the pictures to the correct orientation before anyone can tell what it looks like. Can't see the tilt... for the tilt.

 

[fviljoen963]

Fixed the pics two replies up..

sorry it took so long. Way easier on a computer though

its budding out from the sticky branches, will maybe take a pic when its nice and bushy again, away from home now

 

[Smoke]

[sigh...] I remember the days I had a sticky branch.......now its just jin

 

[fviljoen963]

Well I can tell you one thing.. since Ive had this its started dawning on me how much longer it might still take to get branches not just in the right places but in proportions thick enought for it to look tree like 0_O
Hahahaha

 

[fviljoen963]

Its spring... and this maple is budding but the shoots aren't extending like my other maples are

 

[Adair M]

Well, I see I'm too late...

The tree as purchased had some nice long whips for branches. They would have been be perfect for thread grafts. You could have had branches exactly where you want them.

Still can. Just grow more whips!

 

[fviljoen963]

Thats the idea but it dropped its leaves in Jan... winter doesnt start until Apr/march, then I thought damn... maybe if I cut back the shoots it'll give a new crop of leaves. Which it did. End of May. They burned off naturally
Now its doing this. This is the the I learnt my "true worth of trees" lesson by paying way too much. So I want to make a good tree out of it and add a piece of apex and all that... so I need it to stop sulking and looking like its going to die

Can anybody help? Its not in a waterlogged mix, it drains and I let it dry a little between waterings