Yamabudoudanshi
Shohin
I'm following up my broadleaf thread with this one.
Here are my two entries for the conifer division. I'll decide somewhere down the road once one of them shows some promise.
1) A Itoigawa Shinpaku from air layer: The air layer was separated June 2020 from my practice tree. I've done nothing with it, but clean out weak/dead/crotch growth since then. I think it's healthy enough to get an initial wiring and maybe a repot this winter. I'm thinking of potentially doing a delicate windswept clump sort of style. I've seen a few great ones recently and being that the air layer was horizontal originally, the tree is more of a raft, so I think it could work well. I'll post a picture of what I'd like to do. Alternatively, I might just twist it up like a pretzel for a few years and reassess later.
2) One of these 3 Mugo Pines: These were grown from seed in late winter 2020. In May 2020, I did the seedling cutting technique on them, which has made them grow much more vigorously that their uncut counterparts. Other than that, I've done nothing. I have no idea what to expect for these, but I hope to learn something about developing single flush pines from seed. It seems as though there is ample information on developing JBP in this way, but is very much lacking elsewhere.
Here are my two entries for the conifer division. I'll decide somewhere down the road once one of them shows some promise.
1) A Itoigawa Shinpaku from air layer: The air layer was separated June 2020 from my practice tree. I've done nothing with it, but clean out weak/dead/crotch growth since then. I think it's healthy enough to get an initial wiring and maybe a repot this winter. I'm thinking of potentially doing a delicate windswept clump sort of style. I've seen a few great ones recently and being that the air layer was horizontal originally, the tree is more of a raft, so I think it could work well. I'll post a picture of what I'd like to do. Alternatively, I might just twist it up like a pretzel for a few years and reassess later.
2) One of these 3 Mugo Pines: These were grown from seed in late winter 2020. In May 2020, I did the seedling cutting technique on them, which has made them grow much more vigorously that their uncut counterparts. Other than that, I've done nothing. I have no idea what to expect for these, but I hope to learn something about developing single flush pines from seed. It seems as though there is ample information on developing JBP in this way, but is very much lacking elsewhere.