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Adair M

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Adair,
Why do you called this one triple trunks? Wasn't there a thread you stated it is not a trunk if it not coming from the ground. Clearly these are branches and not trunks.

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Ok, we’ll call it a triple branch, no trunk tree. Geesh...

A mess of a JBP I’ve been playing with:

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Ok, we’ll call it a triple branch, no trunk tree. Geesh...

A mess of a JBP I’ve been playing with:

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That JBP is clearly undecided as to which way is up!
This collected Shore pine shows off one of the advantages of preserving some of the native soil on collection!IMG_0822.JPGIMG_0823.JPG
 

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And a weird shaped trunk on a JBP that i have beView attachment 250763View attachment 250765en messing with :eek:
Looks like a fun tree, Frank!

Here’s my avatar Pine, decandled, and “thinned”. This thing is so dense, there’s not room for long needles to stand up straight. I did most of the styling when it had short needles, so the layers of pads were fairly tight. With long needles, they splayed out, making it look unruly.

But, in a few months, it will be back to the short needles again!

The tree:

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The carnage:

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I used it as a demo tree yesterday teaching at a Plant City bonsai. I decandled maybe a dozen shoots. I finished the job today, and pulled needles.

All told, I spent probably 8 hours on it working in 94 degree heat.

I’m going to return it to the bench, water it, and have a beer!
 

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Frank, has his Guinness and then takes the pix. That makes more sense to me!

Oh, two really short Japanese maple internodes. If I could only remember how this happened. 🤓

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Have you tried writing these things down. That way you could look them up and or share with others.LOL
This is my project maple prepared for thread grafting. Brittle type need to wire the branches in place when supple for the following spring. Second picture show the corresponding growth this spring. I have already thinned it out once to keep interior healthy. Almost time to repeat the process.
 

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Have you tried writing these things down. That way you could look them up and or share with others.LOL
This is my project maple prepared for thread grafting. Brittle type need to wire the branches in place when supple for the following spring. Second picture show the corresponding growth this spring. I have already thinned it out once to keep interior healthy. Almost time to repeat the process.
And a second project maple, same type, same process, leaving a few extra shoots to wire in place for next spring.IMG_1403.JPG
 

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Crabapple - Malus Floribunda. This tree was a project - chopped and regrew it from where it starts to twist. Getting multiple secondary branches on these is a bit of a challenge but it's slowly taking shapeIMG_20190708_171948.jpg


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The moss has done a good job of keeping surface roots spreading - it didn't have any of these sub roots 2-3 years back. Will need some root work and redirection next year!
 

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Great post Martin. You and @bonhe love Quince as do I so I thought I'd post something interesting I found on a white flowered chojubai in training today - a variegated sport. One leaf is exactly split down the middle - looks really cool.

And I will post a tree for good measure - my red flowered double Quince.

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While I was browsing through my trees tucked away in nooks and crannies I noticed this Escallonia I had dug up and done some block carving on. Before carving I sawed off the already dead section above and by God it's the densest and heaviest off cut I have ever felt.

The bark is kinda cool too - reminds me a lot of my potentilla. However, it's the backbudding that is most pleasing - must be the full sun, water and Kanuma in the mix. It'll need thinning and many of the tiny buds rubbing off. This could make a decent tree in future - especially when it flowers. IMG_20190709_174457.jpg

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Every time I walk past this tree (Sloe, Prunus spinosa), I feel a desperate urge to prune it. it was cut back hard this spring (and twice since then) and I'm growing it out now, not planning to cut it again until next year. Really hard to resist tidying it up though!

 

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Every time I walk past this tree (Sloe, Prunus spinosa), I feel a desperate urge to prune it. it was cut back hard this spring (and twice since then) and I'm growing it out now, not planning to cut it again until next year. Really hard to resist tidying it up though!

Same...stewartia growing like a weed.
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Same...stewartia growing like a weed.

Don't know about you, but I get itchy scissors fingers just looking at it. It's like resisting picking at a scab.

This one WILL get a radical pruning fairly soon - Mugo pine. 'Gnom' variety, BUT it has some foliage coming out of the original rootstock below the graft (visible bottom right of the picture). The plan is to cut right back to develop a shohin from the understock, discarding all the 'Gnom' parts.

 

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Hello, my willow oak is alittle over three feet tall and has a 6 inch nebari with a radial root span, this is a nursery find, reduced from its 8+ft height, has a strong weeping form, seeming to bud out feverishly when leaf pruned. Buttonwood has got to be one of my favorites for working deadwood, worked mine at the wrong time of year and it tanked...see if I might find an old pic to share, thanks for this thread start, nice idea...7BF62A7A-FC4D-409F-884A-86DA7A76FBC9.jpeg
 
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