This JBP is about 100 years old. I aquired it in January 2015:
The needles were really, really short. Too short. The long ones were 3/4 inch, and the short ones were 1/4 inch.
I didn't have time to do anything to it at that time.
May 201 before decandling:
May 2015 after decandling:
I also pulled those old 3/4 inch needles. And removed the moss covering the nebari. The chopstick indicate the front. It's an old tree, the bottom branches are really heavy. The lower left one is getting long...
November 2015. Time to wire:
Before wire:
Ahh... Good healthy growth. Time to pull the old 1/4 inch needles and wire!
This is a 14 inch tall tree. So getting my hands in there to wire without breaking needles is difficult, slow and tedious. It took me two full days to pull old needles and wire.
After wiring:
As you can see, the bottom left is getting too long. But it's wiring down, and guy wired down.
We will have to wait...
No work was done in January 2016. I would have liked to have repotted it, but the guy wires are anchored using wires coming up thru the drain holes of the pot. Repotting ruin all the guy wire work.
June 2016 before decandling:
As you can see, the tree is responding well!
The needles were really, really short. Too short. The long ones were 3/4 inch, and the short ones were 1/4 inch.
I didn't have time to do anything to it at that time.
May 201 before decandling:
May 2015 after decandling:
I also pulled those old 3/4 inch needles. And removed the moss covering the nebari. The chopstick indicate the front. It's an old tree, the bottom branches are really heavy. The lower left one is getting long...
November 2015. Time to wire:
Before wire:
Ahh... Good healthy growth. Time to pull the old 1/4 inch needles and wire!
This is a 14 inch tall tree. So getting my hands in there to wire without breaking needles is difficult, slow and tedious. It took me two full days to pull old needles and wire.
After wiring:
As you can see, the bottom left is getting too long. But it's wiring down, and guy wired down.
We will have to wait...
No work was done in January 2016. I would have liked to have repotted it, but the guy wires are anchored using wires coming up thru the drain holes of the pot. Repotting ruin all the guy wire work.
June 2016 before decandling:
As you can see, the tree is responding well!