Photoshop ideas for the Creeper...any other thoughts you wish toss out

[Cadillactaste]

One I feel most obtainable...

This is what I had originally thought...but not sure now.

This would take my developing the leader and growing it out more (far more)...but, I honestly don't know how many years it would take to do...or...if it's the wrong direction to even consider.

Again...any thoughts for a direction to go with this. I am open for suggestions.

~Thanks

 

[Wee]

I like the first one...

 

[Vin]

I agree with you on the one you feel most obtainable. I've got some creepers picked out to dig down here as they grow everywhere wild. We'll see how it goes.

 

[Cadillactaste]

I agree with you on the one you feel most obtainable. I've got some creepers picked out to dig down here as they grow everywhere wild. We'll see how it goes.

All the creepers around my neck of the woods have straight trunks...no tapering and really attached to trees. I've looked a bit. I have plans of adding a bit more substrate to the top of the pot. Not burying all the roots. But, I think it needs some covered up a bit. To tidy it and not take all the attention from the tree itself.

 

[edprocoat]

Is it going dormat now ? I assume its some kind of vine with the name " creeper ". It sounds like something to be wary of, THE CREEPER !!

ed

 

[Vin]

Looks a lot like poison ivy but has five leaves instead of three per whorl. They share habitats.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Looks a lot like poison ivy but has five leaves instead of three per whorl. They share habitats.

Up until this year...I always thought the creeper was poison oak.

 

[JudyB]

I think I like the root structure best in the first picture. You should try to pick a best front first perhaps with this one, as it'll be pretty flexible to style from any side. What is the circled part in one of the pics?

 

[Cadillactaste]

I think I like the root structure best in the first picture. You should try to pick a best front first perhaps with this one, as it'll be pretty flexible to style from any side. What is the circled part in one of the pics?

Thanks...yes, I agree the roots are less overpowering in that first photo. The circle I think was my lame excuse for drawing a leader to grow out and twist back around and make a weeping form tree taking the leader then out to the side of the roots for it to hang down.

With the round pot...it makes it easy to decide on a front. It's just deciding on one...the roots that are less obtrusive yet impressive...and making the curves of the trunk seem flowing.

 

[Giga]

I've got a creeper, mines pretty small but has ridiculous bark so I thinks it pretty old. I planted it in the ground in my grow out bed and it took over! I have to keep all the growth to one area, else it started growing on all the other trees. I plan on repotting it this spring in a cascade pot and I planned on doing the third option you have. It grew around seven 8 foot vines out, so I have plenty to play with. I was hoping to gain some size on it, despite the long growth it didn't put on much truck size I like yours and should be cool once done.

 

[Cadillactaste]

I've got a creeper, mines pretty small but has ridiculous bark so I thinks it pretty old. I planted it in the ground in my grow out bed and it took over! I have to keep all the growth to one area, else it started growing on all the other trees. I plan on repotting it this spring in a cascade pot and I planned on doing the third option you have. It grew around seven 8 foot vines out, so I have plenty to play with. I was hoping to gain some size on it, despite the long growth it didn't put on much truck size I like yours and should be cool once done.

They've been know to kill a tree...so that it tried to take over doesn't surprise me. Are you working on ramification while it's in ground? Or just letting it run vines? I would think you would want to leave a sacrifice branch on it...those are what thickens it up. Maybe reduce the vines it currently has so it's energy is forced to be used on what it has left. Possibly thickening that trunk? Not sure...I honestly know not much about them.

I would love to see photos of yours when you get it in a pot! We'll both have to touch base come spring...and toss back what we learn from this creeper.

 

[Giga]

I had it in a pot for a couple years before I cut most of it off and placed it in the ground. Ramification is ez on this guy. Just fertilize a lot and cut back and you get branches all over the place-including suckers . I figured with longer roots and long growth it would put on some size and it did just not much-though the bark looks even better

Here's it is as of last spring right when I put it in the ground. I don't have any recent pics as I just let it do it's thing and fertilized a lot.


it's a little deeper then what it would be in a pot-Kinda hard to tell but the bark is pretty fissured

 

[Cadillactaste]

Love the texture of it's bark...

 

[Giga]

here's leafless version taken yesterday