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Mojosan
Mame
Well, unfortunately when I saw the wire, I removed it without thinking too much.......
Is there any way that anyone knows of to encourage the areas to heal over? Or will the severed edges just scar and pull back?
Is there any way that anyone knows of to encourage the areas to heal over? Or will the severed edges just scar and pull back?
Wow, the pictures are not pretty. 
If it's the same vendor I'm thinking of, the prices aren't particularly discounted either. I'd be pretty pissed if I spent hard earned money and that's what I received (and how I received it through the s&h process).
If it's the same vendor I'm thinking of, the prices aren't particularly discounted either. I'd be pretty pissed if I spent hard earned money and that's what I received (and how I received it through the s&h process).
Well, unfortunately when I saw the wire, I removed it without thinking too much.......
Is there any way that anyone knows of to encourage the areas to heal over? Or will the severed edges just scar and pull back?
In the ground it must go! OR In the mulch pile it must go.
It will take a millennium to close those wounds in a pot. Hopefully your trunk will thicken and you may have the opportunity to reduce. My feeling is that these scares...both yours and mine will never heal completely and a tell tale will always be visible...to you if to no one else. However, with some creative pruning and reduction that those scares maybe visibly reduced or if you lucky possibly incorporated into the tree design.
The best you can do is try and make lemonade out of lemons at this point
BoneSci
Sapling
One of Lindsey Farr's World of Bonsai videos highlights a nursery in Japan that uses wire in this fashion (not to rip people off but to embed into the trunk of JBPs and thicken them quicker). It may be worth a look. Unfortunately there are a lot of them and I cannot remember exacly which episode it was - either series two episode 4 or 5.
*edit* see http://www.vimeo.com/8052130
After a while the scars are not really visible unless you know they were there.
Chris
but to embed into the trunk of JBPs and thicken them quicker). It may be worth a look. Unfortunately there are a lot of them and I cannot remember exacly which episode it was - either series two episode 4 or 5.*edit* see http://www.vimeo.com/8052130
After a while the scars are not really visible unless you know they were there.
Chris
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Klytus
Omono
As a secret lemonade drinker i would look into filling the spirals with a permanent filler and then apply some kind of healing balm to the wound.
I was thinking maybe the decandlings could be used by removing the tips and mashing them to a fine paste before application to the injury site.
I was thinking maybe the decandlings could be used by removing the tips and mashing them to a fine paste before application to the injury site.
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Mojosan
Mame
One of Lindsey Farr's World of Bonsai videos highlights a nursery in Japan that uses wire in this fashion
Yes, but this wire was not at the trunk base but much farther up. I don't know anyone who wants to induce reverse taper, do you?
Yes, but this wire was not at the trunk base but much farther up. I don't know anyone who wants to induce reverse taper, do you?
Victrinia Ridgeway
Omono
lol... oh Mojo... stop being so logical. 
My biggest trouble with legitimizing the process of imbedding wire is that you also never get to carve any interesting deadwood into the tree as it gets older... I would be irrate to be sold a tree I couldn't carve into because of something like that.
V
My biggest trouble with legitimizing the process of imbedding wire is that you also never get to carve any interesting deadwood into the tree as it gets older... I would be irrate to be sold a tree I couldn't carve into because of something like that.
V
Klytus
Omono
Pine resin as a filler could be the naturalistic thing to do.
BoneSci
Sapling
Sorry Mojosan I thought the wire went all the way to the soil level. Just trying to pull something positive out of an unfortunately crappy situation.
jferrier
Mame
Is anyone going to post this company's name? Message me, I'll do it.
jferrier
Mame
edro
Yamadori
Holy crap!
http://www.matsumomiji.com/black_pine_stock.htm
Every one of those has wire deeply embedded in the trunks!
Good prices though...
http://www.matsumomiji.com/black_pine_stock.htm
Every one of those has wire deeply embedded in the trunks!
Good prices though...
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