fredman
Masterpiece
Is that poor thing living on stored reserves, or did they leave some cambium for you?
Boredom and a bush.
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M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
It takes a long for juniper foliage to turn brown. It's quite dead. Just about every species of tree but tamaracks got this treatment.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
At least it had a crossing root....
That would lessin the pain for me.
Sorce
That would lessin the pain for me.
Sorce
fredman
Masterpiece
I just couldn't get myself to hit the like button for #22, so I wrote this instead.... 
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
Crazy huh? Don't feel bad. I deserve this for being complacent and thinking that just because I made it through the winter before this mild one was going to be a breeze.I just couldn't get myself to hit the like button for #22, so I wrote this instead....
Got my ass handed to me.
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Raffia is a very good idea. Procumbens Junipers seem to be really flexible but will break easily at the joints between branches and trunks and twigs at branches. You have to be really careful with them I have seen branches broken off at the source just because the bonsaiist decided to pull/lever the branch up against the direction of growth just to see underneath them, no serious bending or pulling just moving slightly. So make sure the joints are not challenged unless they are supported. Apparently the Procumbens will produce long and apparently vigorous branches but the tree leaves them hanging at the source on very weak growth.
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Sorry if I screwed up another post in getting it out of sequence. I don't know if it is my server, computer or the site but; very often I will publish a post and find a message stating that several messages have been posted prior to my posting. So; if what I said is irrelevant to you just ignore it, if it helps you receive it. Just know this, if I didn't care I would have said nothing. I am sorry about the animal damage. This looks a lot more like rabbit damage than mouse, though I guess it does not matter, it;s all critter poop by now.
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RickMartin
Omono
Dang Mike sorry buddy if those were off the batch of the one you gave me they were some very nice trees.
Rick
Rick
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Nice to see you post again, I hope you are doing well.
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
They were.
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
The tree in this thread is also a goner. It was voles. The branches would be snipped right off it were rabbits. I know. I've had those attack trees too.
The trees are all out of storage now. Or what is left of them. Losses were catastrophic. They ate at least one of every soecies. Including a mugo and a couple tamaracks.
KennedyMarx
Omono
Shit. That's bad. I'm sorry.
RickMartin
Omono
So very sorry my friend..they were some very nice trees
Rick
Rick
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
They were getting there. I lost so many it isn't funny. Check out the Mice!!! thread. The pictures will make you cringe.
RickMartin
Omono
And thanks Vance. Its good to be back..My health is getting much better.
Rick
Rick
RickMartin
Omono
Where is the mice thread
KennedyMarx
Omono
I bought a procumbens. Took it out of the pot to check the base and the soil shook right off of it, so I combed the roots out and slipped it into another nursery container I had. Cleaned it up at the crotches on the branch I planned to wire upwards. Started wiring, got it wired, then started bending it and CRACK snapped part of the branch. I lef that part alone and bent a little further along the branch to angle it up more and CRACK another snap. Both were small so I hope the branch makes it. I wanted to get a better angle up, but now I'll just wait to see if the branch makes it. I left the rest of the lower branches alone just in case. At least I don't have to worry about mice or voles around here.
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Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
I will repeat what I posted in another thread involving Procumbens Juniper. Procumbens Juniper is pretty flexible as long as you are stressing the tree in the direction of growth. As soon as you go contrary to the way the tree is growing it is susceptible to breaking, snapping and cracking. Procumbens's are more inclined to do this than any other Juniper I have ever worked with. You can take a moderately long branch and lift it up carefully like looking under a dogs tail to check gender and the branch will snap right where it joins the trunk. If you are going to go moving these branches around you have to support the weak spots or you are going to be picking them up.
wireme
Masterpiece
Is there any chance something like this can be treated as a layer and have a chance?
You know, tall cage full of sphagnum from ground to live cambium kinda deal.
Just curious.
KennedyMarx
Omono
After I got done wrestling that procumbens I was reading more posts about them and saw what you were saying about their flexibility. I'll probably try another one or two and see how this one reacts.
