Nice stock and very typical of nursery mugos. Hardly any upward movement and all the branches are about the same as the trunk. This is from shearing the trees into little globes and this takes a few years once you get on the right track to reconstruct.
Mugos were my first pine, and you never forget your first, do you? I hated to even share what I was doing with them, it was so contrary to what I was reading about pines, but I had stumbled into a way of working mugos and they were responding very well for me. I've often said that I'm doing everything wrong with this pine and it just keeps coming.
Then I met the man, and everyone pretty much calling crackpot on his methods (A profit is not without honor, save in his own home, I read that somewhere), but it was pretty much what I was doing and lo and behold! Haven't we come full circle! Isn't life grand!
Anyway, wooboy! talk about hijack, my apologies. I just wanted to say, if you can come across any mugo that have not been so prunned, I've found a couple, they are so much nicer than these from the gitgo, they actually look like trees and not little bushes. Your little one there you can work into a nicer tree than the biggie because you can train it right from the start. You've got a couple of few years to get that bush going the right way. Well, you know. I worked mind back slowly and I think one good hard prunning might have been the way to go after all. I don't know and I'll never buy another so treat me like I'm from Missouri, show me. Best of luck and fun, Rick
