PA_Penjing
Chumono
Another season means another thread. This is an American larch I purchased in the fall of 2018. A volunteer seedling from a Massachusetts backyard. I have gone back and forth with this tree for a long time. Should I sell it or keep it? It’s the first tree I spent any kind of actual money on at the time, not even $100 but it was the beginning of giving myself permission to spend money on the hobby. I have no pics of the tree when purchased but snapped a few after the needles fell and I cut off some unneeded branches. Forgive those guy wires, at that point I had barely ever used wire because all my trees were just trunking up. I went really hard with this tree, at first it was out of excitement, then because I lost interest and love for the tree. Not really many pics along the way until the third and fourth photos from .... this spring? After seeing a larch transformation by leatherback I decided to wire the thing from top to bottom and clean it up. I instantly split an important branch so I pulled back and just did some fine wiring on a few branches so I didn’t disturb the injury. 5th picture is before and 6th is the disappointing after haha. Absolutely not proud of this tree but it offers some sorely needed practice on smaller trees. needs a repot, won’t bother explaining why because it’s a dumb story. But I have a pot picked out if the roots look like they can take the pruning. So that’s the plan for now. Apex will probably need to be completely regrown this summer. Plan to feed heavy and make up for 2 years of poor treatment. Despite all I’ve said I do have high hopes for the tree but worry about it’s future in my relatively warm climate. Just kind of a tree shaped tree, or at least it will be
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