fraser67
Shohin
I bought this guy from a nursery back in March of this year. Supposedly, quite a few of these were dug up in the 60's (Simi Valley CA) to be raised and sold as landscape Black Pines. The nursery lost it's lease and the ones that remained ended up in Gardena, Ca. For the most part... they've been fairly well taken care of...
I did a pretty major prune, a little wiring and started a couple jins. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do with this guy...and it will take a few years, I know.
Because of the existing roots and it's age, I ruled out cascade and semi (maybe wrongly) cascade.
The trunk is about 5" at the bottom.
(BTW, I have a new program that lets me do a virt...but it's storing the photos in Icloud, and I can't access them...yet)
I want to cut off the back branch and eventually doing some carving there and create some shari...The branch creates a "Y" at that point and I don't think I can do anything else with it.
You can see from the overhead photo. It also shoots out the back of the tree about 16" before any branching. Back budding doesn't look likely.
So...
First: I plan to repot early next spring. Because of it's age...should I take some extra precautions? Can I lop off the bottom 1/3 of the pot and bareroot?
Second: Is this tree too old to try an approach graft? I'd like to try 1/3 up on the left of the tree...to try and help bring the foliage in tighter. I did leave a couple branches long enough to try...but I've read they may not take given the age of the branch at that point.
I think I have a really fun project that will take years to see through.
Thanks for looking!!
Best,
Jonathan
I did a pretty major prune, a little wiring and started a couple jins. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do with this guy...and it will take a few years, I know.
Because of the existing roots and it's age, I ruled out cascade and semi (maybe wrongly) cascade.
The trunk is about 5" at the bottom.
(BTW, I have a new program that lets me do a virt...but it's storing the photos in Icloud, and I can't access them...yet)
I want to cut off the back branch and eventually doing some carving there and create some shari...The branch creates a "Y" at that point and I don't think I can do anything else with it.
You can see from the overhead photo. It also shoots out the back of the tree about 16" before any branching. Back budding doesn't look likely.
So...
First: I plan to repot early next spring. Because of it's age...should I take some extra precautions? Can I lop off the bottom 1/3 of the pot and bareroot?
Second: Is this tree too old to try an approach graft? I'd like to try 1/3 up on the left of the tree...to try and help bring the foliage in tighter. I did leave a couple branches long enough to try...but I've read they may not take given the age of the branch at that point.
I think I have a really fun project that will take years to see through.
Thanks for looking!!
Best,
Jonathan