Any Mainers? Heading your way and looking for yamadori.

LanceMac10

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we should have hooked up at the bonsai west open house. I stopped in for a few but left empty handed. My benches are already over capacity... Plus all he has that I want is larch and I've already plucked the good ones.



Less than stoked. Michael put all the new, good shit, far from prying eyes/not up for 20% discount. But I think I scored the best deAl of the weekendwith the little crab apple I bought.


You have to be aggressive with Micheal to show you the good shit!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad:
 

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I've been drinking.:confused::confused::confused::confused::confused::D:p:cool::eek::oops::(:):mad::mad::mad::oops::rolleyes:o_O:p QUOTE said:
Any late night off the wall posts of mine, assume this is the case. lol although I've come up with a few good ones I think under the same circumstances
 

Joe Shmo

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It seems I may have collected a bunch of these red pines. I'll have to check tomorrow and see if the needles snap when bent. That's the deciding factor from what I have read. Either way I've collected them and I guess we'll see if I can get any back budding and start its journey on the bonsai bench. I felt like the needles were a lil long for scots.

From the book i bought, it's pretty hard to mistake a red pine for any other pine except scots, the both have reddish bark. The easiest way to tell is the needle length. Red Pine are 4-6 inches long (source), the scots pine are 1.5-3" long (Source).
 

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From the book i bought, it's pretty hard to mistake a red pine for any other pine except scots, the both have reddish bark. The easiest way to tell is the needle length. Red Pine are 4-6 inches long (source), the scots pine are 1.5-3" long (Source).
Well that's a bummer I thought I'd lucked out and found tons of scots. The needles didn't quite snap like I'd expected them to, but they definitely are on the longer side of the spectrum leaning them towards red pine. I guess we'll see what happens.
 

Joe Shmo

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Well that's a bummer I thought I'd lucked out and found tons of scots. The needles didn't quite snap like I'd expected them to, but they definitely are on the longer side of the spectrum leaning them towards red pine. I guess we'll see what happens.

Do let me know. We usually take at least one trip up to Maine a year. I don't really want to fill a trailer full of trees that wont make good bonsai if they dont work. I'd rather leave them in the forest than harvest them to add them to my junk pile.
 
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