MrFancyPlants
Omono
Thank you for the input! Everyone.I feel your going to have to make a decision. Visa visa branch removal . Traditional conifer styling . Would create Jin’s which of course is a option . But as you know hemlock have great wound healing capabilities. There is the fact they bark up slowly so wounds heal but take time to look natural . Be careful in a work shop . Drastic root pruning to get a tree in a nice pot added with a heavy restyle has killed a lot of trees . I don’t mean to sound rude . But it’s a pitfall I have seen a lot of experienced people make . Hemlock can be finicky to root work . Don’t do both at same time , the tree has great potential . Using existing branches and foliage . Is fine the risk of course is growth to far from the trunk eventually . A drastic hair cut and branch pruning at a workshop will stimulate growth from interior buds that also now receive light . As for styling I’m slightly reluctant to influence . Your thoughts . The relatively straight lower trunk is a factor . There is of course a a informal upright tree there . A slanting tree is a simple possibility . So is something more dramatic like a windswept . Using some of the existing foliage as you seem to interested in . So is a semi cascade possible with more work . Step one game plan . Ie style and time line . Something I feel people overlook . Are you looking for a long term project that requires more development . Or something simpler in style but takes less time
No danger of restyling and repotting in one go. I was going to do a fall workshop at Natures Way (no email back from them yet, but I assume it is a go) to get some assistance in choosing lower branches to take out or Jin. And then pot this Spring or next, partially dependent on if I get the new pot(s) this January or next.
The roots are very symmetric as is, so I wasn’t planning on messing with the angle, though it would be possible to adjust given the wound healing properties. I was thinking informal upright with weeping foliage and perhaps some cascading branches. The deeper lotus pot was intended to allow for some cascading branches.