Black pine work

[MichaelS]

A ground grown Black. This is the way I do pines. Others do them differently. A friend of mine likes to take long whips and bend the crap out of them then fatten them up. I prefer this way.

Pretty simple really. Prune a couple of times for a direction change, then dig it up and graft branches wherever you may want them..




As you can see, just 2 grafts will make the entire new tree. (these were done last winter)
Close up of the right graft...




The left...




years ago I grew a seedling from a Nishiki pine. Going by the bark on this tree, I suspect this might be it, but I'm not sure

 

[0soyoung]

Do you gather the scions from this same tree or from some other tree?

 

[Adair M]

More than one way to skin a cat, I suppose.

I like to have bigger bases and more taper on mine, so I let sacrifice branches go, then cut back. At the same time, I try to keep a few low branches to use for keeper branches. Then graft as needed.

A couple examples:

Before:



After:



Another tree I’ve been messing with a couple years:

After decandling:



I’ll use a couple of those extra shoots on the sacrifice for grafting next spring.

 

[MichaelS]

Do you gather the scions from this same tree or from some other tree?

Usually the same tree unless the needles are really long or have a long bare neck on the shoot.

 

[MichaelS]

More than one way to skin a cat, I suppose.

I like to have bigger bases and more taper on mine, so I let sacrifice branches go, then cut back. At the same time, I try to keep a few low branches to use for keeper branches. Then graft as needed.

A couple examples:

Before:

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After:

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Another tree I’ve been messing with a couple years:

After decandling:

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I’ll use a couple of those extra shoots on the sacrifice for grafting next spring.

This is the old way, we don't do it like that any more...

 

[cmeg1]

Pretty cool.I just watched a video on grafting JBP branches today.Seems real handy.

 

[Adair M]

This is the old way, we don't do it like that any more...

I guess I’m old fashioned then.

 

[DirkvanDreven]

I guess I’m old fashioned then.

Please Adair, stay old fashioned!