Recent content by mc4mc44

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

Some better pictures

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...