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    My "Other Conifers" Progression Thread

    I lost a spruce to a racoon knocking it over, but everythings doing great this spring. I only got around to wiring one larch and removing the wire on the rest, and of course gained one more too. And this is my first year without fungicide and pesticides so far, no signs of issues so far, the...
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    Alpine Fir - Another Beat Up Old Thing

    Your updates are why i still come here. Thank you for sharing your trees.
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    Japanese Larch

    This tree looks best in the fall, the needles are completely off now, ill try to get another pic soon. All the shari was made by hand, it started from little ovals that i slowly connected. Once the trunk barks up and the vein matures even more it should be pretty sweet. Any help for the top...
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    Thunderstorm Tragedy

    I just learned my lesson last week, we had winds at night that woke me up and the next day i found a couple trees knocked over and one blown 5 feet from the bench. It was a ponderosa that must have landed upside down and then bounced. We'll see if any damage occurred next spring... that's why i...
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    Fall motif-Playful Crust larches

    I love your larches crust, especially the first. I really do feel like it's watching me. Real nice color too. I like the deadwood a lot on the second and third. The trees here are behind yours, everythings just getting color.
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    Literati Clump

    How about this? All of the trunks have a nice flow to them along with beautiful branches, then the trunk on the left comes in with the sharp angle in the trunk and the one lanky branch.
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    Japanese larch advice please!

    I like the first one a lot, it could be made into a really nice little tree. I like the second but don't think it will work for a cascade because of the roots. It might need some more growing out, or a major cutback, one or the other. The roots from that angle don't really work to well for a...
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    Mountian Hemlock - Ballerina.....

    A beautiful tree, it's really looking nice! I wish we could grow mountain hemlock here... They have collected ones at a nursery by me, but i hear they just slowly decline. I live in a weird little micro-climate though, it gets cold here at night even in the summer. I need to try one... The ones...
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    Big Ol' Strobus

    Some better pictures
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    Big Ol' Strobus

    When it comes to design this tree is options on top of options. I'm not removing anything for a little while though. I cut off only dead branches before it came out of the ground. Everything else is staying there until it's safe to be messed with. For those with real collection experience, on a...
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    Big Ol' Strobus

    The rootball was loosened well before we put it in the ground, not to much clay was left. I'll attempt to take better pictures tomorrow, but the hook is actually three huge branches. One has bark the whole way out. When i get the whole thing in a picture tomorrow you'll see whats there. Eastern...
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    Big Ol' Strobus

    It came from open clay, so we just put it back in the ground. Decent root ball, it didn't have a taproot. Sorry about all the eyesores, the stakes keep it still no matter how windy it gets, and the fencing keeps me from getting the entire tree in frame. The fence is needed because this tree got...
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    species... one of each? specialize in one and its cultivars?

    Im not much on variety. I have larch, pines, spruce and fir. and one little elm. But then in the ground is everything i bought when i started. I have cedar, wisteria, juniper, JM, and a blueberry i collected, along with a massive EWP i just collected i might start a thread on someday.
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    Larch Progress

    Hmm.. i never considered this as an issue, in person they're at different heights, but if its noticeable, then it's noticeable... I could hide the top one eventually... the bottom not so much, and that ones worse then the top. I could graft a branch on either side maybe, i'm fine with...
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    Larch Progress

    Not any interest really... I posted because i could always use tips. Im still a beginner. Did i screw it up so bad its hopeless now? are the long branches too much? should i aim to shorten them? I like the flow now, but could this be bad in the future? What about the deadwood root? like it, hate...
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    Podderosa for collection

    Leave it and enjoy it where it is. Don't collect unless its the perfect situation, it's not worth killing it. This definitely isn't the perfect situation...
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    American Larch

    Just to be sure you know what i mean, It's not going to be a windswept "tree in a hurricane" like you see in books, but more the image of an old larch on the edge of a lake, where it just favored one direction a bit more. And I get what your saying, i've thought the same thing, i even thought at...
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    American Larch

    And the last one, still for sale. I won't ship, pickup or delivery only. PM me. I chopped the trunk to the first branch since it wouldn't bend and there werent any branches until the top. The new trunk has even taper after only one season. When the deadwood is carved it wont look so blocky...
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    American Larch

    No interest in the Japanese larch, so ill post some american too. They were wired this year but everything bounced back almost 100% about a week after taking it off. So i added guy wires to a couple to keep the branches somewhat in place. It's roughly done so sorry for the looks. It'll get the...
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    Larch Progress

    The top is actually full of holes and has a piece of deadwood that twists back down and to the left. The colors match too well and you can't really see it from the angle the picture was taken. I plan to carve more anyway though. The shari on the trunk is full of interest because of all the...
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    1st shari attempt, too much at once?

    I usually try not to take off more than a quarter of the bark, it looks like you went for about a third, i wouldn't worry at all. I would probably keep that lowest branch too, you can add character to it over time, a double trunk is always more interesting than a single trunk. And this tree is...
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    Larch Progress

    Here is my only Japanese Larch, I've had it since it was a 2 yr old seedling. I figured I'd post pictures before the fall color starts. The big trees here are already starting to blush. Ill get to the american larch when they turn, and with more pictures of this tree and all my pines. This year...
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    Ponderosa Pine Cascade Advice

    I agree with this. That cascading branch is long with only a little foliage, and the work required to include it in the design isn't really worth it for that branch. The other branches seem much more dense and healthier, and it would take less time to create a quality tree with them. BUT...
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    How well do Larch respond to a hard pruning?

    I've removed 50% of the branches off larch without any issues, the trees don't even notice. Larch are tough, as long as they're healthy they'll live through almost anything. With a nursery tree you'll be fine removing half or even a little more.
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    Larch in the fall

    I'm in NE PA, in zone 5b. These pictures were taken a long time ago, everything is covered in snow right now. Ill post winter silhouette pictures once everything thaws out in spring. Only one is a Japanese larch, everything else was collected up in Vermont and bought from a dealer in NJ. They...
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