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Thanks, I like this forest, great job so far!
Will
Will
Florida Elm
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Jay Wilson
Shohin
Darn Graydon,
I'd enjoy bringing to the meeting, but......I just repotted into a screen bottom tray after a lot of root work. I'm now about halfway through some serious thinning, pruning and wireing.
Now it doesen't look like it did in the pictures.
The pics above were how it looked after a light trimming and clean-up late last fall.
I had to repot and trim much farther back to allow room for this years growth and after seeing the virts I cut and thinned even more than I had planned.
So, the little forest is not looking as spiffy as it was a few days ago.
Jay
I'd enjoy bringing to the meeting, but......I just repotted into a screen bottom tray after a lot of root work. I'm now about halfway through some serious thinning, pruning and wireing.
Now it doesen't look like it did in the pictures.
The pics above were how it looked after a light trimming and clean-up late last fall.
I had to repot and trim much farther back to allow room for this years growth and after seeing the virts I cut and thinned even more than I had planned.
So, the little forest is not looking as spiffy as it was a few days ago.
Jay
Jay,
Thanks for coming to the meeting last night. I hope you find our company acceptable and that the programs are not too boring.
Now on the your elm forest. Wow. I'm glad I walked with you to your car after the meeting. Your modesty is nice. I can understand apprehension when coming to a club meeting not knowing anyone. You should have brought it in to share at the meeting - that is obvious after we set it on your car roof and you instantly drew a crowd. Nice progress from the photo posted here and what I saw last night. I can't wait to see it develop over the next few seasons. Quite a piece of work for sure.
See you around...
Thanks for coming to the meeting last night. I hope you find our company acceptable and that the programs are not too boring.
Now on the your elm forest. Wow. I'm glad I walked with you to your car after the meeting. Your modesty is nice. I can understand apprehension when coming to a club meeting not knowing anyone. You should have brought it in to share at the meeting - that is obvious after we set it on your car roof and you instantly drew a crowd. Nice progress from the photo posted here and what I saw last night. I can't wait to see it develop over the next few seasons. Quite a piece of work for sure.
See you around...
Jay Wilson
Shohin
Graydon,
I enjoyed the meeting last night.Thanks for your patience in getting me there.
Thanks for your comments on the forest....It did look good sitting there on the car roof...in the dark
Jay
I enjoyed the meeting last night.Thanks for your patience in getting me there.
Thanks for your comments on the forest....It did look good sitting there on the car roof...in the dark
Jay
paddles
Yamadori
I was ok until the last picture. Is that where you're going to put your Buddah on a surfboard?
Oi! I heard that! lol
Jay Wilson
Shohin
Thanks Graydon and Tom for your kind words. I think they may be too kind for this forest in this stage of it's development.
I've been working on this lately, trying to correct some of the problems I see in it.
I repotted into a screen bottom box after some fairly heavy root work. I hope to encourage some better surface roots and a generally finer root system.
As you can see in the picture below (taken today), I've done a lot of wireing. Besides trying for better branch placement, I've also put a little movement into some of the arrow straight trunks and on the little tree on the far right, I tried to fix the odd 'C' looking branching at the top.
Lots of wires and guy wires to hold everything in position.
Along about May, I'll defoliate, remove wires, lower the soil surface and wire some movement in the last straight trunks.
If I can find a pot for it, I might do a fall repot..... It might be ready to show then.
If anyone is interested, I'll post some progression pictures from it's start in 2004 until now.
Thanks,
Jay
I've been working on this lately, trying to correct some of the problems I see in it.
I repotted into a screen bottom box after some fairly heavy root work. I hope to encourage some better surface roots and a generally finer root system.
As you can see in the picture below (taken today), I've done a lot of wireing. Besides trying for better branch placement, I've also put a little movement into some of the arrow straight trunks and on the little tree on the far right, I tried to fix the odd 'C' looking branching at the top.
Lots of wires and guy wires to hold everything in position.
Along about May, I'll defoliate, remove wires, lower the soil surface and wire some movement in the last straight trunks.
If I can find a pot for it, I might do a fall repot..... It might be ready to show then.
If anyone is interested, I'll post some progression pictures from it's start in 2004 until now.
Thanks,
Jay
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All right Tom, here you go.
Back in 2003 I dug a stump by my road that had been bushhogged the year before. I didn't see anything useful in the stump itself, but it had lots of rooted shoots coming off it at ground level. I cut the shoots , put them in pots and planted the stump.
The next year (2004), I dug the stump (pic#1) and cut some more shoots. I had all these little sticks so I thought I'd try to make a forest.
Pic #2 is what it first looked like on Jan. 2004.
pic #3 July 2004
pic #4 Feb 2005
pic #5 July 2005
The progress of this planting kind of mirrors my own stumbling on the road to bonsai. if I knew then what I know now......
Jay
Back in 2003 I dug a stump by my road that had been bushhogged the year before. I didn't see anything useful in the stump itself, but it had lots of rooted shoots coming off it at ground level. I cut the shoots , put them in pots and planted the stump.
The next year (2004), I dug the stump (pic#1) and cut some more shoots. I had all these little sticks so I thought I'd try to make a forest.
Pic #2 is what it first looked like on Jan. 2004.
pic #3 July 2004
pic #4 Feb 2005
pic #5 July 2005
The progress of this planting kind of mirrors my own stumbling on the road to bonsai. if I knew then what I know now......
Jay
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Gotta love bushhogs. Except if your collecting in Alabama where a snake seems to be hiding by every cut stump.
So your forest as I understand it is made up of all cuttings from the original stump? It has come visually a long way in a short period of time. Once again, congrats .... this will be a very nice forest in no time at all. Thanks for taking us down memory lane
So your forest as I understand it is made up of all cuttings from the original stump? It has come visually a long way in a short period of time. Once again, congrats .... this will be a very nice forest in no time at all. Thanks for taking us down memory lane
John Hill
Mame
Looking good my man looking good!!
A Friend in bonsai
John
A Friend in bonsai
John
Jay Wilson
Shohin
Jay Wilson
Shohin
Hey Grog,
Both these trees have had a hard year so far. The neighbors bull chewed them up pretty bad in early summer. The forest suffered more as it was wired pretty extensively and when the critter took a bite, he bit wire and pulled it and the limbs right off the trees. Lost some needed branches.
Both these trees (and all my elms) developed black spot which hurt them a good bit also.
I've almost got the black spot under control and am now just letting the trees grow for a while to regain some vigor.
So..... there's not much use of posting any current pictures of a couple of shaggy things.
Probably in a few weeks I'll trim and defoiliate and if there's any thing worth seeing, I'll post some updates then
Both these trees have had a hard year so far. The neighbors bull chewed them up pretty bad in early summer. The forest suffered more as it was wired pretty extensively and when the critter took a bite, he bit wire and pulled it and the limbs right off the trees. Lost some needed branches.
Both these trees (and all my elms) developed black spot which hurt them a good bit also.
I've almost got the black spot under control and am now just letting the trees grow for a while to regain some vigor.
So..... there's not much use of posting any current pictures of a couple of shaggy things.
Probably in a few weeks I'll trim and defoiliate and if there's any thing worth seeing, I'll post some updates then
Yikes! And I thought my neighborhood animals could do some damage.
I feel your pain with the bovine mishap. None of the stuff I have is that far along but I was still wanting to carve some ribeye off a still breathing cow after one took a tour of my yard.
Thank goodness they're elms, I'm sure they'll bounce back great.
Thank goodness they're elms, I'm sure they'll bounce back great.
