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A few of mine chugging right along... @Vance Wood when is reccomeded by you to get in and start thinning this years needles into bowties? Or at least removing downward growing needles. It would really smarten up my silhouette.
You could do that stuff now. Make sure that you remove any new buds that are growing straight down as well.A few of mine chugging right along... @Vance Wood when is reccomeded by you to get in and start thinning this years needles into bowties? Or at least removing downward growing needles. It would really smarten up my silhouette.
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Thanks boss. I also have lost of budding in places... Tool much budding. Do,you reccomnend reducing those now as well or wait til fall?You could do that stuff now. Make sure that you remove any new buds that are growing straight down as well.
Upon further inspection there was not as many crowded junctions as i had thought... Heres the after pics of the one I had time for today, big difference cleaning out those downward needles. Also i found the backside has a nice profile too. Now just clean up the dead wood and jin areas tomorrow.Wait till fall. If you take them now their removal will stimulate a response with more budding.
Not that I've seen. Not like jwp anywaysDo mugos tend to shed their needles this time of year similar to jwp?
Im gone have to do this sideways thing. Bet by next summer you'll have a nice profile. Once you remove some of those traffic branches.A look at the only Mugo I repotted this summer...I just got to the 4in square pot of old roots and slammed it sideways in this basket . View attachment 206454
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The punk ass bloodoooodooodoooroots.
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That silver moss just chopped and tossed.
Goes green.
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Kept under the twice a day.
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The other side.View attachment 206459
And a face look...
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Showing signs of too much water...
It will probly go up on the bench soon.
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And I see a bud on old wood!A root means success
Be very careful of those new buds. It will take two seasons for them to gain strenght enough to withstand being handled. Once you get to that point you can start cutting the top back to green needles, not bare wood, and this will help strengthen those new buds and maybe give you some new ones as well.One of this died the same year collected the other one survived
Last year i left it untouched but half of the tree died off
The remaining parts are kind of leggy and i cut half the needles off this year and cut the new growth back to get it to backbud
And guesd what.....
Following @Vance Wood his advice worked out !
I got it to pop some buds halfway back at the branches and even one slightly closer to the trunk
Pics or it didnt happen:
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