All aboard the Mugo train!

[sorce]

Today I did some hard pruning (at a slightly risky time of year) to provide sunlight and hormonal signals to the backbuds that are ready to go

I thought about This.
But the (....) is the easer.
I am amazed at Parham's clockwork here more.....
Drop a like....drop a post....see you in a couple months!

Damn that is nice, I love the old bark. When you repot I assume you will try to get it closer to the center of the pot.

Thought about that too!

That tree was up there by the cattle cars....
Right before the reefers.

How long has it been since we even used cattle cars....
Or consistently called anything reefer?

We gotta stick to the timetable, or this train is gonna miss a destination.

Sorce

 

[Vance Wood]

If you are going to repot, unless the tree looks really bad and might die if you don't, the best time to do them is after June 21. You can do them in the spring if you are careful and do not involve more than 30% of the total soil mass but again; I have only lost trees I repotted in the spring.

 

[LanceMac10]

I have found August repotting has worked for me in my climate. That gives me about three months for new roots to harden somewhat for winter.
In my area, the end of June and basically all of July, it gets very hot, (for around here), making me a bit hesitant to attempt a re-pot in that time frame.
Disregard if previous comments were directed towards others.

This method is in regards to Mugos. Nothing else.
Though I will plant out in the ground within this time-frame.

 

[Vance Wood]

That is the time I do it and it gets hot around here as well. The summer repotting is something I have been selling for more than twenty years.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

I found summer repotting for my JBP had a higher success too. Though I protect the summer repotted JBP more for the winter, rather than pushing the limits with my zone 5 weather. Anything summer repotted spends winter in the unheated well house which stays above 28 F.

Since I am less than a full year on the mugo train, I will follow your lead Vance.

 

[Vance Wood]

I found summer repotting for my JBP had a higher success too. Though I protect the summer repotted JBP more for the winter, rather than pushing the limits with my zone 5 weather. Anything summer repotted spends winter in the unheated well house which stays above 28 F.

Since I am less than a full year on the mugo train, I will follow your lead Vance.

Let's hope the trestle is not washed out.

 

[sorce]

I have two, they are just little 1 gal starters. I will put em up ASAP it got really busy the last couple of days.

Wrong thread...

I think it's supposed to be in the thread with all the talk about vanishing points.

Oh yeah.....Mugo in the desert....
Gecko in the freezer.

They're dead?

Sorce

 

[milehigh_7]

Wrong thread...

I think it's supposed to be in the thread with all the talk about vanishing points.

Oh yeah.....Mugo in the desert....
Gecko in the freezer.

They're dead?

Sorce

Actually they survived the summer and did not do bad here at all. JBP does just fine here as well.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

Still on board and loving living in pure FINE perlite.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

Those 2 were also repotted during summer dormancy(late august early September) from #1 nursery pots. removed bottom 1/4ish and made a few slices vertically on the root mass so I could work a little perlite in. the larger of the 2 got the top whacked off a couple of months later when it was blatantly apparent it would not hurt it. excited to see how it does this year. The smaller one will get its first styling probably in the next month or so as I think it can handle a little extra work as well. Then it'll be pots in the ground with just maintenance work and trims till I get my property as i'll be too busy commercial fishing to really work them. Both of these are long term project trees, at opposite ends of the scale, the larger chasing foliage back and reducing into a suitable tree, the other growing into a larger tree(don't tell anyone but I want to make it a formal upright, leaving the barbranches where I can do so without creating reverse taper)

 

[Vance Wood]

Good luck with the fishing. Tough and dangerous job. Good thing to provide for care of the trees.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

Good luck with the fishing. Tough and dangerous job. Good thing to provide for care of the trees.

I've known nothing but poverty my whole life and I have some pretty big(expensive) ambitions,since the oil industry has bottomed out fishing is really going to be the only way for me to get the money I need, i'll be 25 in 2 weeks and plan on spending 10years working out of dutch harbor, so i'll come out at 35 with enough money to purchase all the property and equipment i'll need to go full time plants. and still be young enough to make some major advances in native material techniques

 

[Vance Wood]

I've known nothing but poverty my whole life and I have some pretty big(expensive) ambitions,since the oil industry has bottomed out fishing is really going to be the only way for me to get the money I need, i'll be 25 in 2 weeks and plan on spending 10years working out of dutch harbor, so i'll come out at 35 with enough money to purchase all the property and equipment i'll need to go full time plants. and still be young enough to make some major advances in native material techniques

Have you been to Ryan Neil's operation yet? Before taking what you will obviously need in order to retire down the road you need to make sure you have a direction that is viable. If I was young enough I might think of doing the same thing, I envy you I just you can pull it off without the government telling you can't do this and they won't let you do that and if you want to do this you will have to pay THIS.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

Have you been to Ryan Neil's operation yet? Before taking what you will obviously need in order to retire down the road you need to make sure you have a direction that is viable. If I was young enough I might think of doing the same thing, I envy you I just you can pull it off without the government telling you can't do this and they won't let you do that and if you want to do this you will have to pay THIS.

I have not been to Miria and don't ever plan on it to be honest, i'm not in the game of bashing so i'll keep my reasons private. I taked about my goal in another post. My goal is to develop the horticultural/bonsai techniques for handling native species only. I have no desire to be a reknown artist, but instead to produce the highest quality native prebonsai in the country, along with the best collected specimens, besides native junipers. I love growing the trees and other plants. I don't plan on my sole income being bonsai, i'm also going to grow holistic herbs, and sell fur, along with possible teaching survival and off grid livestyle. I live in a state that fortunately allows a lot of freedoms . . . if you live far enough out. . . ability to dig wells and collect rainwater without permits ect. . . .

 

[barrosinc]

so I just styled my mugo... I hated it so I really forced it! Now I like it and don't want to loose it!! hahahaha I will post a pic if it makes it 60 days.

 

[Vance Wood]

so I just styled my mugo... I hated it so I really forced it! Now I like it and don't want to loose it!! hahahaha I will post a pic if it makes it 60 days.

You have to learn how to see the potential before you set it on fire. But; I think you will probably be alright. We wait for some pictures, which I would like to see now. Understanding that you are virtually on the other half of the world from me I am serious about knowing what people are doing with the tree.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

You have to learn how to see the potential before you set it on fire. But; I think you will probably be alright. We wait for some pictures, which I would like to see now. Understanding that you are virtually on the other half of the world from me I am serious about knowing what people are doing with the tree.

Especially since it's the equivalent of working the tree in august here. . . .

 

[parhamr]

One of my slowmound dwarves is developing male pollen cones!

 

[Potawatomi13]

See any sign of little cones?

 

[Vance Wood]

See any sign of little cones?

Yes: If you look behind the pollen cone on the left you can see what appears to be a purple bud, this is the female cone.