Fun Little Ginkgo Progression

[ColinFraser]

Just a little tree I've been screwing around with for a while - nothing amazing, but its been fun so far.
Here are a couple of teasers while I find the 2014 photos . . .

 

[sorce]

I was hoping you might have taken it down to the three.

Why not?

Sorce

 

[ColinFraser]

Ok, in summer 2014 I bought this little Ginkgo biloba in a 5# pot at a landscape nursery in Santa Barbara.



I cut back a few branches but left it long and lanky - I hadn't fully embraced the way of the chop yet

 

[ColinFraser]

After that I think I just left it to grow until the next summer.



Summer 2015 I chopped it to a low branch and wired up the new lead.

 

[ColinFraser]

Tapered the stub and took the wire off when it started to bite, and then just let it grow.

 

[ColinFraser]

By spring 2016 it was time to start in on those awful roots!



I just took a saw to the original 5# pot and then raked what was left a little bit.

 

[ColinFraser]

I stuck it in a Rubbermaid plastic tub, and buried it pretty deep to encourage new roots - it didn't skip a beat.

 

[ColinFraser]

It grew vigorously enough that I cut it back again during the summer of 2016.

 

[ColinFraser]

Winter 2016/17

 

[ColinFraser]

I've decided that spring started early in 2017. I finally got a chance to start gnawing away at those big fat roots. Burying it deep at the last repot definitely got it to put out some new roots around the base



That's more like it!!

 

[ColinFraser]

A couple more hard cuts, and an inexpensive Chinese glazed pot, and it's starting to look like a bonsai

 

[ColinFraser]

As @sorce alluded, if I don't get any buds in that long empty section, then I'll eventually cut it way down low . . . for now, I'm giving it a chance.

 

[sorce]

As I was sitting here thinking....

I'm giving it a chance.

To what?

Look ugly?
Excite some sick person?
Ruin your progress?
Piss me off?

I noticed that front higher branch.

Then how sickly and out of perfect that low front one is.

Please.
Cut the low front one....

Please.
Cut it down to the top front one.

Please don't sell it without PMn me!

That is, well, that could be, the dopest Ginkgo start I've seen.

Fingers crossed for no buds up there!

Sorce

 

[Vance Wood]

Great progression and a great job on a difficult tree.

 

[Giga]

give it 5 more years looks great!

 

[petegreg]

A couple more hard cuts, and an inexpensive Chinese glazed pot, and it's starting to look like a bonsai

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Nice progression and little ginkgo. Just a Q Colin, what style are you going for? Asking because I have got one in the ground and I would pay for those lowest branches you removed. But I need them for "flame" style.

 

[aml1014]

Ithe appears I'm not the only one who uses glue to seal up wounds. Nice start!

Aaron

 

[ColinFraser]

Ithe appears I'm not the only one who uses glue to seal up wounds. Nice start!

Thanks. It's actually one of those gloopy cut pastes that comes in a toothpaste tube - I think our recent torrential rain may have washed most of it away!

 

[aml1014]

Thanks. It's actually one of those gloopy cut pastes that comes in a toothpaste tube - I think our recent torrential rain may have washed most of it away!

Nice, I guess I'm still the only cheap one who uses wood glue it doesn't rain enough here to remove any type of cutpaste

Aaron

 

[ColinFraser]

Nice progression and little ginkgo. Just a Q Colin, what style are you going for? Asking because I have got one in the ground and I would pay for those lowest branches you removed. But I need them for "flame" style.

Even if I end up going more classic flame style, I'd like to see a bit of Trunk/Nebari at the bottom; that's why I ditched that lowest branch. Im not certain where we'll end up - perhaps somewhere naturalistic between broom and flame . . .