Cosmos
Shohin
Bought this ginkgo today. It sort of winked at me as I was browsing trees in the pouring rain, being small enough to fit in my car and 1/3 the price of the taller, less interesting ginkgos on offering.
My instant feeling was "good wide base, not perfect (a bit of reverse taper) but interesting ---> need to chop that". It could have potential as a taller tree, but I want to make it small and squat (in the 6-10 inch tall range), not sumo but tending towards this, a bit like BVF's beautiful one here. The base is about 2.5 inch wide, trunk proper is around 1.5.
One side, the one with the ugly-ish circling root on the right and the stub from a cut sucker, would an unconventional front. The opposite side would be more classic, and has better tapering and uniform bark.
My question: where do you guys think I should chop, and when? I'm thinking either I do it this week (buds are beginning to show some green), and sometime in June when there is fresh foliage and maximum photosynthetic activity. I'm keeping it in its nursery container this year, unless one of you strongly suggest to root prune and place it in bonsai soil soon.
For the location of the chop, I've read here that they bud back well. There are some buds I could keep, quite low on the trunk, or I could go barbaric and reduce it to something like 4 inches.
PS. Variety is Robbie's Twist, the leaves are supposed to be slimmer and a bit curled.
My instant feeling was "good wide base, not perfect (a bit of reverse taper) but interesting ---> need to chop that". It could have potential as a taller tree, but I want to make it small and squat (in the 6-10 inch tall range), not sumo but tending towards this, a bit like BVF's beautiful one here. The base is about 2.5 inch wide, trunk proper is around 1.5.
One side, the one with the ugly-ish circling root on the right and the stub from a cut sucker, would an unconventional front. The opposite side would be more classic, and has better tapering and uniform bark.
My question: where do you guys think I should chop, and when? I'm thinking either I do it this week (buds are beginning to show some green), and sometime in June when there is fresh foliage and maximum photosynthetic activity. I'm keeping it in its nursery container this year, unless one of you strongly suggest to root prune and place it in bonsai soil soon.
For the location of the chop, I've read here that they bud back well. There are some buds I could keep, quite low on the trunk, or I could go barbaric and reduce it to something like 4 inches.
PS. Variety is Robbie's Twist, the leaves are supposed to be slimmer and a bit curled.
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