The Tree Thread

[Poink88]

Dario, you got a pic of the back of the Juniper? If not and you have to take one, capture the sides too. Have you trained a Torulosa before?

Dorothy,

No. This is my first and only but know you worked and own a very nice one (saw it at IBC moons ago).

I don't have descent pics of the back but will take some later. Here are the ones I have for now, mostly left side pics.

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[berobinson82]

Dorothy,

No. This is my first and only but know you worked and own a very nice one (saw it at IBC moons ago).

I don't have descent pics of the back but will take some later. Here are the ones I have for now, mostly left side pics.

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Have you considered grafting shimpaku foliage onto it? Roy Nagatoshi had an article in BT #108 and it's closely copied here:
http://bonsaibark.com/2010/03/08/ro...anches-and-foliage-onto-a-california-juniper/

 

[Gene Deci]

This made me smile! It is quite lovely. Did you make the slab/container yourself?




Can't grow that here either. Looking good, Gene Deci. I am enjoying the thread too. It is less intimidating for folks to casually post a tree. We need to have more fun with what we are doing, don't you think.

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Best,
Dorothy

I did make the slab but it didn't turn out quite as I had envisioned. I may try again.

And yes, this thread was a great idea for just the reasons you suggest.

 

[Poink88]

Have you considered grafting shimpaku foliage onto it? Roy Nagatoshi had an article in BT #108 and it's closely copied here:
http://bonsaibark.com/2010/03/08/ro...anches-and-foliage-onto-a-california-juniper/

I have but planning on using Itoigawa instead http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?9425-Itoigawa-juniper-source

While I've done several grafting, that was long time ago and this is a totally new and different ballgame. I also need to have a design goal first before I start grafting. No use grafting on something I won't need/use later.

Thanks for the reminder. I have a complete set of BT (thanks to our friend mcpesq817 ) but haven't read most of it yet.

An Agarita (related to Berberis) I collected last year. It is very lush now and much smaller. This one bites back (leaves are very thorny) and I almost gave it away but my wife want me to keep it. Maybe because she & our daughter was with me on that dig.
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[october]

HI Dorothy,
I haven't started this seasons work, but here is some from last season. This is a san jose juniper. Here is the before and after. The bottom jin, being used as an anchor, will most likely be removed. Also, the 3rd pic is a virtual of the future shari I am planning. After the work last year, the tree was put into a larger grow pot and has been growing untouched for one year. Also, future work needs to cautiously done. After pulling it out of the pot last year. It had a very small root mass on only one side. Root production and health are this tree's current priority.

This is a very good and productive thread.

Rob

 

[nathanbs]

Is this your tree? Awesome Juniper! What did Ryan do about the rotting process at the base of the tree, if anything? Thanks for posting this!

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Best,
Dorothy

No I wish it were my tree. Im not sure how I referred to it in the earlier post but the damage was essentially done not much left to rot below the original soil line. He perhaps lowered it down a little further to utilize some of the dead wood a little higher up the trunk(now below the soil line) He mentioned that its the wood at the soil line that rots. Below where it stays constantly wet and above where it stays constantly dry are fine. It seems to me that you just deal with it when it happens. Time for a design change or lower further into the pot?

A little reminder for the rules here you guys is you must post a pic with every post!!!!

 

[Vance Wood]

HI Dorothy,
I haven't started this seasons work, but here is some from last season. This is a san jose juniper. Here is the before and after. The bottom jin, being used as an anchor, will most likely be removed. Also, the 3rd pic is a virtual of the future shari I am planning. After the work last year, the tree was put into a larger grow pot and has been growing untouched for one year. Also, future work needs to cautiously done. After pulling it out of the pot last year. It had a very small root mass on only one side. Root production and health are this tree's current priority.

This is a very good and productive thread.

Rob

Very nice SJ Juniper I like it a lot, very nicely done.

Semi Cascade Mugo

 

[Fangorn]

Here's a before and after picture of a juniper styled by Michel Phaneuf that I won in the raffle at Mid Atlantic back in 2010. I've been working on it with Suthin Sukosolvisit and will post a more recent photo later.

 

[subnet_rx]

Here are a couple of seedling that I dug from a neighbors yard (about 6" at the time) a few years ago. Still needs to develop some bark but I hope for these to represent a group of the tall lobolly pines that grow here in South Carolina... maybe 30-36" now...recently wired and repotted.

I had to find a picture of a tree just so I could reply to this. That looks much like the scenery here in Mississippi and something I've been wanting to do for quite some time. I'd love to hear any information you want to share on this because I'd love to try the same thing.


Here's a dwarf cherry dazzle crape myrtle in training.

 

[johng]

I had to find a picture of a tree just so I could reply to this. That looks much like the scenery here in Mississippi and something I've been wanting to do for quite some time. I'd love to hear any information you want to share on this because I'd love to try the same thing.


Here's a dwarf cherry dazzle crape myrtle in training.
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Hey Subnet
Thanks...I put these together to look like a park I play disc golf at...lots of tall old pines with straight trunks and twisted branches...really quite cool! (Dorothy, this is also why I didn't start with material that had a more significant difference in size...which normally I certainly would have)

Not too much to tell... As mentioned, these were small seedlings that I collected and then grew in the ground for a couple seasons. I originally collected about 40 and have been experimenting to see how they respond to JBP development techniques. Actually what I discovered is that I can get these to push new buds at least 3 times in a single season. you can The needles reduce ok but the twisted nature of Virginia Pine needles I don't think will ever result in the very finished look you can achieve with JBP....just fyi, the needles on the pictured have been cut.

I have only had about a 50-60% success rate transferring these from the growing bed to containers (could be bad timing...trying to narrow it down but I think I was too early twice)...once in a container it seems not to be a problem....but I get 2-3 times the speed of growth in the ground...of course they bark up much faster in the ground...these were part of the very first group that I took out of the ground and as such have the least amount of bark.

Like most pines they are very easy to wire and shape. VP seems to be extremely susceptible to tip moth infestations...although that just tends to force them to back bud one more time at the end of the growing season

One further thing that I have noticed, and I am sure it is a result of something I am not doing right yet, is that the trees in the ground have a much darker and better green color, while those in containers have a little yellow cast?? Going to try Julian Adams' Micromax stuff this season...he has used it successfully on the same problem with Zuishio JWP...we will see.

Thanks again,
John

 

[johng]

Great tree (virtually..). Again, I love the naturalness you are showing in your works! Splendid.

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Best,
Dorothy

Thanks Dorothy!!

 

[johng]

jff

before

after

Blaauw Juniper

 

[johng]

Does video count?

I have been training this tree now for 12 years...its a slow process with White Pine, but I am just happy to have kept it healthy as its a little warm where I live for JWP. Its going to get a good repotting in the very near future and then hopefully wired next season....if I have a few days to spare

[video=youtube_share;KuK6K9CT77w]http://youtu.be/KuK6K9CT77w[/video]

 

[rockm]

John,

Love what you did with the Va. Pine. Anyone living in Loblolly or shortleaf pine range will "get" that planting.

Also like the Maples(?) on the flat rock. Where'd you come by the rock? Is it granite?

 

[nathanbs]

great job on the blaauw juniper!
Heres one of my umes at the end of bloom just before wiring

 

[nathanbs]

John,

Love what you did with the Va. Pine. Anyone living in Loblolly or shortleaf pine range will "get" that planting.

Also like the Maples(?) on the flat rock. Where'd you come by the rock? Is it granite?

wheres your picture?

heres my flowering pear a couple months ago

 

[johng]

John,

Love what you did with the Va. Pine. Anyone living in Loblolly or shortleaf pine range will "get" that planting.

Also like the Maples(?) on the flat rock. Where'd you come by the rock? Is it granite?

Thanks Rockm! The slab planting is winged elm...and the stone is a piece of granite that "shelled" off of a huge boulder. That pic is a couple of years old..its much better now(more ramified) but I don't have a current pic.

 

[october]

Very nice SJ Juniper I like it a lot, very nicely done.

Semi Cascade Mugo

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Thank you Vance.. Your mugo is fantastic. The bud work on it is amazing. Such small and uniform buds/needles. Everyone's trees are very beautiful here.

Well, I guess since I responded, I should show another tree. Here is a grafted japanese white pine in training. I have been working with this one for about 2 years. It is a deceivingly small tree. Only about 12 inches tall. Future work includes pulling the main anchoring branch down a bit, growing some foliage in the front to break up the trunk line. Also, possibly a slightly different planting angle. It is currently in an oversized pot for training and health reasons.

Rob

 

[Paulpash]

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Something I was foolin around with today....Saved him from going in a dumpster last week...Guy at the nursery still wanted money for him, if you can believe that. So I caved...lol

Leave it to recover - Cryptomeria are from my observations very akin to Juniper - power from the foliage, likely to abort branches with minimal foliage. I lost a main branch on my cryptomeria through leaving only a third of the original foliage mass on it so I had to jinn and bend others to fill the gap.

I'll take a pic of mine when it's light Cascade ... it's in the ground now as i had to build density to fill the gap left by the demise of the first branch

 

[rockm]

"wheres your picture?"

Sorry. Forgot. Here's a "make-up" A pic of Ron Lang opening his kiln full o' bonsai pots.