Picea Glauca Conica #1 - Progression Thread

RODERLO

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Hi everyone,

This is my attempt at a progress thread to keep my trees documented throughout the years.

My picea started life as one of those garden center christmas trees. It's been in training for slightly more than a year as of today.
The tree was repotted a week ago into pumice and akadama for the first time. It's finally out of it's garden center peat, ready to hopefully form a new denser root mass. It now only has a few large roots with fine roots at their ends.
These roots come out a few inches up the trunk, so I have potted it deep. A much nicer an wider part of the trunk is therefore still obscured.

Here is the tree in January 2023:
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... and here it is today, repotted, rewired and with buds just opening:
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As you can see I'm aiming for a tall formal upright spruce with weeping branches. An image I often see in mature Spruce here in The Netherlands.
I'll keep a report of it's future progress.
 
Nice work!
Yep, a very naturalistic look for the species.
I like where your going with it.
 
Update 19-04-2024

This is having a really strong flush of growth this year.
Pinching tactically last year really helped to push vigour back into the lower branches.
The plan is to not pinch this year, but perform selective pruning and wiring later this year to set the individual pads.

Composition wise this definitely needs to be move left of center in the pot, in my opinion.
Sadly, the shape of the rootball did not allow for it this time around. I'll see how far I can reduce it next time around.

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Boom! Love the tree and the boulder it rests against. 10:10.
 
@Bonsai Nut Would this tree be eligible for the 2023-2026 little christmas tree contest?
It was started in January 2023 from a regular garden center christmas tree.

If so, would it be possible to change the thread title to 'Roderlo's 2023-2026 little christmas tree entry'?

Thanks in advance!
 
You will have to talk to @Eckhoffw - it is his contest.
Ahh check, my bad!

Hopefully @Eckhoffw can give me the green light.

EDIT: now that I've found @Eckhoffw's original thread about the contest, I've realised it started just before christmas of 2023, whereas mine was started early 2023 (after christmas 2022). I reckon that would give me too much of a headstart with this one.
 
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Ahh check, my bad!

Hopefully @Eckhoffw can give me the green light.

EDIT: now that I've found @Eckhoffw's original thread about the contest, I've realised it started just before christmas of 2023, whereas mine was started early 2023 (after christmas 2022). I reckon that would give me too much of a headstart with this one.
It would likely be a toss up between you and Jelle considering the quality of work already achieved, respectively
 
Ahh check, my bad!

Hopefully @Eckhoffw can give me the green light.

EDIT: now that I've found @Eckhoffw's original thread about the contest, I've realised it started just before christmas of 2023, whereas mine was started early 2023 (after christmas 2022). I reckon that would give me too much of a headstart with this one.
Nice tree you have there!
So yeah, I don’t know that I can technically allow it as an equal submission.

BUT….., this competition is for fun, and more of a motivation to do something.

If you want to enter it, that’s fine by me.
We can still all enjoy the documentation and progression of the tree!

We will all know that this one has had about a year headstart, and will take that into consideration when critiquing.

Make sense?
 
Nice tree you have there!
So yeah, I don’t know that I can technically allow it as an equal submission.

BUT….., this competition is for fun, and more of a motivation to do something.

If you want to enter it, that’s fine by me.
We can still all enjoy the documentation and progression of the tree!

We will all know that this one has had about a year headstart, and will take that into consideration when critiquing.

Make sense?
Thank you for taking the time to think this through.

I agree that is a fair way to assess this tree when it comes to judging the entries.

@Bonsai Nut if you’d be so kind to change the title as said before. Thank you!
 
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