~2 year old JBP seedling

[Kanorin]

I received this seedling from a $1 club raffle last year - I was told that it's probably a JBP. I buried the plastic pot that it came in into the ground and put some mulch around it to overwinter, then potted it into the current pot this spring.


I'm new to bonsai and super new to pines. I'm mainly curious about what to do at this stage of development. It's got 4 huge candles all coming out of the same spot and I'm worried if that might cause some reverse taper. Some of those candles even have buds starting to form on them. Should I remove 2 of those candles now or not worry about that until it's a bit more grown up?

 

[sorce]

I wouldn't worry much about the reverse taper yet. Think about by fall maybe.

Nice for a dollar!

Sorce

 

[Mike Corazzi]

I wouldn't worry much about the reverse taper yet. Think about by fall maybe.

Nice for a dollar!

Sorce

By fall, it could need a much larger pot.

 

[Thomas J.]

Do yourself a big favor and slip pot it into either a colander or a pond basket now and in a few years you'll be glad you did believe me. The pot you have it in now will keep it thin and small. These are only 4yrs old at the time and the trunks have fattened up quite nicely by then.

 

[Thomas J.]

These are 7yrs old and should be what you're striving for.

 

[Haines' Trees]

So, I get that pond baskets and colanders work really well, but why exactly is that? More aeration?

 

[Adair M]

There’s a great thread on this forum. It’s titled something like “some pine seeds six years later”. It’s by Eric Schrader. You’ll learn a lot!

 

[Potawatomi13]

Nice looking small pot equals skinny trunk. Be aware using garbage plastic baskets tree dries out enthusiasticly quick in hot, dry, windy weather unless tended diligently. One day=dead tree! Better to use grow box, grow bag or plant in ground to largely avoid death.

 

[Adair M]

Nice looking small pot equals skinny trunk. Be aware using garbage plastic baskets tree dries out enthusiasticly quick in hot, dry, windy weather unless tended diligently. One day=dead tree! Better to use grow box, grow bag or plant in ground to largely avoid death.

Potawatomi13, why are you posting on this thread? You don’t like JBP. Do you even have any? If you don’t, you have no experience. Why would you think that anyone wants to hear what someone who has Expressed their distain for JBP has to say about how to grow them?

Have you ever used a colander to grow pines? No? No experience with that, either?

 

[Kanorin]

3 years later, still going. I decandled the lower candles last year to keep those internodes tight. Left the sacrifice branch alone to grow strong.
Whole tree with sacrifice


Future tree is a shohin somewhere in here:

 

[Wulfskaar]

Nice! So that's 5 years old now?

Mine are almost 3 yrs (and younger) now and definitely need to be potted into grow boxes next spring.