zachkent29
Mame
Agreed, just great!
Large broom Hawthorn
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JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Interesting avatar tree Zach, what is it? Thanks!
zachkent29
Mame
Grape...
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
No, good skill!
I like what the left branch does. The way the canopy is heading. Lil here, lil there. It is looking very natural.
Trunks Great.
Sorce
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Will be great if it takes off! Thanks.
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
I did some major reductions this season, and also some thread grafting for better placement of the lower branches on the left side of the tree. The tree will be repotted next spring, and I'll lean the tree back to the left a bit. I let most of the tree grow strongly this year, time to do a cutback so I can store it! It finally got a bit of color, very late this year! Sorry for the crappy pic, it's too big right now to get a decent background.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Love the shallow pot!
Sorce
Sorce
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Here is a sight that I wish was happening in the spring instead of now. This bud popped on very old wood on the trunk right where I'd like to have a branch. So I hope that it makes it over the winter. Nothing you can do to keep them cold (without a chiller of some sort) when it's 60 outside. Of course it got cold the last couple days, but going to be up towards 60 again next week.
Bunjeh
Chumono
Hawthorns are my absolute favorite for the exact reason that Zach mentions. Great tree, Judy.
Zach Smith
Omono
Judy, in my experience once a hawthorn throws a bud somewhere it will tend to keep on trying to do so for at least some number of tries. This is a useful characteristic when you're working on your branches. Often you'll get a bud/shoot that points straight up on your branch when you'd rather it go in one sideways direction or the other. If y0u let the branch grow out (good for basal thickening if it's close enough to the base of the branch) until it achieves a decent thickness and then cut it off, it'll re-bud off to one side or another (sometimes both). You then have a secondary branch pointing in the desired direction.
In your case, I suspect that regardless of what happens over winter this spot will have a new bud come spring.
Zach
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Oh, @Zach Smith that is good news! I have used that process on the branches, as they do like to throw buds straight up, and I've cut them off to get better placed buds.
Thanks for the hopeful thoughts!
Thanks for the hopeful thoughts!
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
No, this was a tree I acquired from Don Blackmond (Gregory Beach Bonsai) a few seasons ago. The picture in the first post shows how the tree looked before he acquired it from the guy who made the tree. It was amazing, but then the person who made it had a bad insect issue, that didn't get taken care of before the tree (in that form) was partially ruined. Don got the tree, and brought it back to health. I then acquired it and began to re-develop it in a more naturalistic form. Don told me that the tree was either yamadori, or a nursery tree, he couldn't remember at the time which. Came from Louisiana.
Tentakelaertje
Omono
Zach Smith
Omono
I learned this year that hawthorns can be dug in October, so you should be all right. Success rate 90%.
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
LOL Ten... I didn't go back and read the whole thread, I went instead to the emails that Don and I had about the tree to answer ghulsts question. At that time he didn't remember which it was. I'll have to archive this tidbit, so I remember it's history. I like knowing things about where my trees came from!Judy, he does now
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
I am happy with the thread grafts that seem to have taken on the left trunk, I'll leave them for another season I think, then begin to separate. There is a bud that popped out just before winter in a perfect spot, and it made it thru winter just fine. Now that trunk will have primaries set in correct places. I did do a pretty big scale cut back of top branching back to create taper and ramification. Anything too big or straight went. This was not a repot year, so it should zoom this season. Buds are all over this tree some on very old wood.
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