My Mi Nishiki

[Littlejoe919]

So excited that this tree is on it's way to me. Thanks Brent!
Always wanted a corker on it'd own roots.

 

[Littlejoe919]

Let's give this some scale. So much more than I expected. Now to study it a while and figure out where to take it.

 

[BonsaiButler]

Nice looking pine. I did notice it has some needle issue from the photo, brown spot or some kind of needle cast?

 

[Littlejoe919]

Nice looking pine. I did notice it has some needle issue from the photo, brown spot or some kind of needle cast?

I don't think so, the needles have been trimmed.

 

[hemmy]

Nice! But I think a tree of that much potential, deserves a little higher quality beer for scale!

 

[sorce]

Mad Potential!

Score!

Sorce

 

[just.wing.it]

Wow, it's larger than it looks in the first pics... nice piece there... bark looks great.

 

[Littlejoe919]

Nice! But I think a tree of that much potential, deserves a little higher quality beer for scale!

Ha, how do you think I afforded this

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Always a good day when you get a tree from @Brent ! I'll be curious on where you'll land for a front, and if you'll use the ten-jin as part of the design. I kept my Hachi-Gen in a round pot for several years trying to decide on a front.

From his website, descriptions, and another Mi-Nishiki, it seems pretty close to Hachi-Gen as a cultivar, except maybe better bark. My Hachi-Gen is flaky and chunky, but not winged like some are.

 

[Littlejoe919]

Always a good day when you get a tree from @Brent ! I'll be curious on where you'll land for a front, and if you'll use the ten-jin as part of the design. I kept my Hachi-Gen in a round pot for several years trying to decide on a front.

From his website, descriptions, and another Mi-Nishiki, it seems pretty close to Hachi-Gen as a cultivar, except maybe better bark. My Hachi-Gen is flaky and chunky, but not winged like some are.

I'm thinking of calling her "Baby got back" see first picture in the first post.
It is a great day to receive something from @Brent. I'm liking the front in the second post. I'd like to use the ten-jin as a point just above the canopy. This thing is back budding like crazy, So I could probably do anything I can dream up with it.
I know you have a lot of information on corker, so I'd appreciate any and all info you could send me. This is my first one. Thank you in advance for that.

 

[Littlejoe919]

Here is a better picture of her butt. Jalo's got nothing on her

 

[Dorky_gearhead]

Here is a better picture of her butt. Jalo's got nothing on her

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Baby got back lol

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Nice one

 

[Littlejoe919]

So, I took this tree to The Bonsai Learning center near Charlotte NC for a BYOT with Bjorn today. I was just looking for direction and somehow this happened. He says it's very healthy but he has his doubts it's a cork bark variety.

 

[Giga]

And so it starts - going to be a very nice little pine!

 

[fredtruck]

The Mi Nishiki is a cork bark pine, but it takes a long time for it to cork up. I also have a Mi Nishiki that I got as a 4 yr. old cutting in 2002 from Brent. It is just now coming into its own, with cork ridges running up and down the trunk. I like your tree and think it has excellent potential. Be patient, keep the tree in good health and it will reward you, slowly, a little at a time.

 

[augustine]

If Brent says it's a cork bark, it's cork bark.