A couple of wild pines.

M. Frary · May 12, 2018

First is a Scots pine.

Next up is a Jack pine.

Both collected today.
The Jack is about as big around as a pop can.
The Scots is larger.
I've been eyeing them up for almost a year now
Well see how it goes. I've only got around a 50% survivability rate collecting in spring.

TomB · May 12, 2018

The Scots pine in particular looks really interesting. Good luck with them.

petegreg · May 12, 2018

Wild and promising, I like them.

Bonvivant25 · May 12, 2018

If nothing else the Scotts would make a kick ass niwaki!

M. Frary · May 12, 2018

Bonvivant25 said:
If nothing else the Scotts would make a kick ass niwaki!

If it lives it gets a colander. Then a pot.
These are going to be bonsai man!
If you saw what I use for benches you'll realize that yard art isn't my thing.
5 gallon buckets with oak boards laid across them.

Bonvivant25 · May 12, 2018

Lol. I understand. This a bonsai site afterall!

Wilson · May 12, 2018

M. Frary said:
First is a Scots pine.View attachment 191745
Next up is a Jack pine.View attachment 191746
Both collected today.
The Jack is about as big around as a pop can.
The Scots is larger.
I've been eyeing them up for almost a year now
Well see how it goes. I've only got around a 50% survivability rate collecting in spring.

Awesome Mike! I could definetly imagine that jack pine tilted to the right, deadwood up top. Both are beauty!

GGB · May 12, 2018

Damn dawg, that scots was born to be a bonsai. Wish they came up wild near me

barrosinc · May 12, 2018

Promising

!!

M. Frary · May 12, 2018

Both of these trees were within 6 miles of my house.
Good trees can be found all over.

GGB · May 12, 2018

M. Frary said:
Both of these trees were within 6 miles of my house.
Good trees can be found all over.

I can tell you've never visited the Lehigh Valley in PA

my nellie · May 12, 2018

I just read your thread of two Larches and then I read this... I really feel envious

TN_Jim · May 12, 2018

Sweet score!

Having never collected a pine, I’m wondering the degree that, or if, you are approaching any shade with them

M. Frary · May 12, 2018

TN_Jim said:
Sweet score!

Having never collected a pine, I’m wondering the degree that, or if, you are approaching any shade with them

Both are in partial /dappled shade under a maple in the yard.

M. Frary · May 12, 2018

Wilson said:
Awesome Mike! I could definetly imagine that jack pine tilted to the right, deadwood up top. Both are beauty!

The other side I cut off was under a dead oak that had fallen on the tree.

bonsaichile · May 12, 2018

I just collected a couple of pines from the mountains. I have them in dappled shade, on grow boxes filled with pumice..I mist them several times a day, and keep the soil moist but not damp. Any advice you can give me to keep them alive? Thanks!

0soyoung · May 12, 2018

M. Frary said:
I've been eyeing them up for almost a year now

I get the scots = nice

What grabbed you about Jack? What do you have in mind?
I probably would have passed it up because it appears quite challenging to me. But, I don't know Jack.

M. Frary · May 12, 2018

0soyoung said:
I get the scots = nice

What grabbed you about Jack? What do you have in mind?
I probably would have passed it up because it appears quite challenging to me. But, I don't know Jack.

It doesn't show in the pictures but there is a little movement in the trunk.
If I can get it healthy and start back budding plus some wiring magic there's a potential literati in there maybe.

TN_Jim · May 12, 2018

Thanks much..shade amount and reading a bit has formed a very recent (today/yesterday...move em'!) reconsideration with many i've had left to the new blazing sun.

Shade up..made me think of this book..

...."It was unlikely, for folk do not like to venture into the night when things of horror stalk the earth. Hild clutched at her crucifix, but I was comfortable in the dark. From the time I was a small child I had taught myself to love the night. I was a sceadugengan, a shadow-walker, one of the creatures other men feared.
I waited a long time until I was certain no one else was on the low ridge, then I drew Wasp-Sting, my short-sword, and I cut out a square of turf that I laid to one side. Then I dug into the ground, piling the soil onto my cloak."...
The Lords of the North, Bernard Cornwell

mattspinniken · May 13, 2018

DUDE that’s a sweet Scots, I’ve looked and looked and looked and I can’t find them like that in my area. The search continues, nice to see such a nice collected Pine from MI.

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