Canadian Hemlock box store find

Mike123 · Sep 19, 2015

Was at HD and found this guy. Really like the small needle like foliage. Trunk has potential. The one thing it seems like it's sitting on top of soil or root mass. or there's more trunk in there. 19.99 didn't think i did to bad. What do you think?

0soyoung · Sep 19, 2015

I think you got a good deal.

Nybonsai12 · Sep 19, 2015

Looks good to me for $20. Nice score.

Mike123 · Sep 19, 2015

Thanks Osoyoung .It has some swollen lumps on trunk. (Pic 3 ) Not where a branch formed but just a lump, distracting or cool.... I think it gives it character. Is there a term for that?

Mike123 · Sep 19, 2015

Nybonsai12, they had 4. I may go back and another one. Thanks

0soyoung · Sep 19, 2015

Mike123 said:
Thanks Osoyoung .It has some swollen lumps on trunk. (Pic 3 ) Not where a branch formed but just a lump, distracting or cool.... I think it gives it character. Is there a term for that?

I don't know the term, but it could be an interesting feature. Nick Lenz was a gifted sculptor and carved a feature like this into a face. You certainly wouldn't need to go that far to have it add a lot of interest in your final design.

What caught my eye was how it wouldn't take much to make this into an exposed root or root-over-something form. As is, it is potted way too high.
Regardless, you should have a good time with it. Its a nice tree.

CWTurner · Sep 19, 2015

Great find. I agree with Osoyoung "As is, it is potted way too high".
CW

Mike123 · Sep 19, 2015

Thanks don't know why it was potted this way. I guess they potted it in a hurry. I'll have to study this one. Can't seem to get a idea where to go with it. The soil or roots under the trunk seem pretty hard so I guess in spring I'll find out whats beneath. I think the trunk is thick for its size. Unless that's typical. Do you think I should fix the soil height going into fall-over winter?

BethF · Sep 20, 2015

Good find. It looks vigorous and it has tons of potential.

Mike123 · Sep 28, 2015

Opened it up some, along with some rough jins. I think it's starting to look like the Wizard of Oz talking apple trees! With the bottom roots looking like legs. Also finding it hard to get an apex, the branches are coming from same area. Pulled one branch down to give movement. Any ideas?

Mike123 · Oct 1, 2015

It's a Jervis variety but I think it has a resemblance to Sideshow Bob.

Giga · Oct 1, 2015

that's actually a pretty good find!- I bet if a bonsai nursery had that they'd put triple the price tag or something. If handled right in a few year it would be something amazing

Mike123 · Oct 1, 2015

Thanks. I'll have to study it a bit more and get it moving in the right direction. Have my eye on a Colorado blue spruce. Same place we're this was. A lot bigger though.

Leo in N E Illinois · Oct 1, 2015

The 'Jervis' cultivar is rather slow growing. In fact, grows somewhere around 1 inch per year. (maybe 2 inches, I did not look it up) In styling it, I would not choose a style where you had to grow out parts of it. Keep as much green as you need. If you cut off too much foliage, or design it in a way where the tree need to grow a branch several inches long to fill a spot, you may be waiting 5 or 10 years for it to grow. Just a thought to keep in mind. Work with what is already there.

Mike123 · Apr 1, 2017

Little update. Finally got around to potting this up. Haven't done anything to it since it grows very slowly. Its not much to look at but i kinda like it.

Wilson · Apr 1, 2017

For 20 bucks you got your self a nice little tree!

Mike123 · Apr 1, 2017

Thanks! Trying to pot up some trees that i really should have done last year.

Random User · Apr 1, 2017

I like it for the price, but I really like it for it's peculiarities... if it wasn't so happy looking, I might not like it at all... but who can argue with something that looks so content with being alive.

BenBSeattle · Jun 27, 2019

Sorry about digging up an old post, but have you observed on whether or not this back buds on old wood?

Leo in N E Illinois · Jun 28, 2019

Eastern hemlock, like Hinoki and a number of other conifers are notorious for not budding back on old wood.

It is not absolutely impossible to get it to back bud, but back budding is rare and infrequent enough that nobody depends on them to do so.

They do graft reasonably well, either single point or approach grafts. So if you have a trunk with age, you can put branches on it by grafting.

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