M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
Thanks Will.Hey, Mike! Great thread you started, among others, and glad to see you posting about your own trees now.
You didn't kill that one you got from me - the winter up there did that, most likely, despite your precautions, because it was raised locally in the very mild Pacific Northwest climate for sale as a yard tree - I got it from just such a nursery, and its ancestors may have been aclimated to the PNW many generations ago . You might think, being of Jack Pine heritage and genetics, that it would know what to do up your way in the winter - as I thought, and therefore I didn't give any extra warnings - but that was obviously wrong, and this really dawns on me as I read here about the challenges encountered by almost everyone who collects or tries to raise them in climates like yours where these trees even are acclimated to the brutality of the climate.
So please don't beat yourself up about this, 'cause your a big guy, of Godzilla-like strength if I understand correctly, and ex-LEO and all that, too - and you might hurt yourself!
But it was in my care.
I've learned though.
Thank you again.