Second one shows some promise.
First one goin die.
Actually, second one going die too....
Just playing...but they like more foliage left on...
Wintering grounds?
I am not against Dwarf Alberta (assumption)....
Love em.
But...
I got "suckered" into buying a nice base the other day...
But I ASSumed the bush would have something to cut back to on the inside. It didn't. And I bought mine before they went on sale. Argh.
So now, I will never again stray away from having the whole tree laid out before I buy it.
Gotta identify every branch (more, more branches) that I will use, find every transition, and most importantly, identify anything that will need a lot of growing out..
Small low branches, poorly proportioned transitions, trunks, reverse taper....
Throw it all into the old Bonsai Calculator and if the result is more than 5-7 years out....
Skip it..
Important note...This quick 5-7 year timetable limit is only for Dwarf Alberta.
Since we are still in this stage of finding a way to keep them sustainable as bonsai...I want to get to an image worth sustaining fast.
Don't want to grow one out for 20 years just to find out a finished image is truly unsustainable.
For the record....each year brings me closer to finding the sustainable system to grow these with.
I can see the reasons for the negative connotations about Alberta, but my trees have already proved there is a way around them.
I dont know where this "dwarf" came from. If they are ALL from one mutation, one set of genes...
But I doubt it.
Even if they are all from one mutation, they are not all exactly the same on the inside, and I swear there are at least two different needles (besides the revert back to normal needles), I dont know if this is age or a different mutation, but either way different is going to act different, health different.
If it is age....the younger ones have thicker needles, with early pruned second flush shoots that have even thicker(yet shorter) needles.
Thats three different solar panels to somehow miraculously know the energy capacity of.
No no....it wont be a miracle, the facts only need to be taken into account before we dismiss a tree as no good for bonsai.
Different on the inside?
In hedgerows, every year, the same tree throws shoots of reverted to regular Alberta. And the others do not.
I understand the others may at some point, or may have, but for x years, it remains the same.
Are the reverters stronger? Weaker?
reverting remains an unread sign.
I'm not one to go looking for specific answers to these scientific mutation questions....
But I WILL use the lack of information to know my Dwarf Alberta IS Not your Dwarf Alberta.
And even if it is....it may like my yard better!
Copy and paste to the jammer thread!
Sorce