I trunk chopped my trunk chop.

[sorce]

Me laughing, bravo to you, though it's really a ticking time bomb, even the monkeys think it's funny when that pops, so much so people take pictures, so I gotta leave on the ship and get bit by a snake off Sao Paulo.

Sorce

 

[leatherback]

I think he means in full control of his faculties.

That would be a first!?

 

[leatherback]

so I gotta leave on the ship and get bit by a snake off Sao Paulo.

Normally I would recommend going to Sampa. Right now.. Not so much. They really are in trouble with the virus.

 

[Woocash]

Carpinus Betulus, collected last summer.

I made this thread to update it every now and then.

Nice, I’m looking forward to the progress. I bought a couple of chunky hornbeam stumps today (well, started at 12ft before they met me). Not as nice as yours, but they have a similar girth. Good material to learn development of the species on though.

Well the thread is certainly off to an entertaining start

 

[Trenthany]

Me laughing, bravo to you, though it's really a ticking time bomb, even the monkeys think it's funny when that pops, so much so people take pictures, so I gotta leave on the ship and get bit by a snake off Sao Paulo.

Sorce

Cruise time?

 

[Ruben Bouwmeester]

good find.
Sad about the big chopmark. For me, carpinus does not close them well.

Yes there must be done something to make it look natural.
I have doubts about taking him to a workshop with Will or whether I do it myself.

 

[Ruben Bouwmeester]

Nice, I’m looking forward to the progress. I bought a couple of chunky hornbeam stumps today (well, started at 12ft before they met me). Not as nice as yours, but they have a similar girth. Good material to learn development of the species on though.

Well the thread is certainly off to an entertaining start

Nice, Haahahaa enough has happened so far. snakes, chickens, trains, busses.

 

[Ruben Bouwmeester]

A bit positively surprised what was underground. And now we can write a bunch of nonsense again. And yes mister gorilla I really repotted it.

 

[leatherback]

A bit positively surprised what was underground. And now we can write a bunch of nonsense again. And yes mister gorilla I really repotted it.

Nice toes on that tree Ruben!

 

[Ruben Bouwmeester]

Update. Next Monday workshop with Yannick Kiggen. Making some branch selection. 1 of the tree's that was growing good this year.

 

[Ruben Bouwmeester]

Branches selected and 2 crafts. Lets see what 2022 brings us.

 

[Ruben Bouwmeester]

Building branches with the fertipads from Yamabonsaistudio. Goes well.

 

[Milly]

Branches selected and 2 crafts. Lets see what 2022 brings us.View attachment 406376

Exciting!
Waiting to see it naked again.

 

[Ruben Bouwmeester]

Wired the tree last week. There are still some little things that irritating me.

 

[A. Gorilla]

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Wired the tree last week. There are still some little things that irritating me.

Please don't publicly criticize your own children.

 

[BobbyLane]

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Wired the tree last week. There are still some little things that irritating me.

whats irritating you? Looks like a good decision to chop. I might make more of a split in the top. only if possible. looks to me the volume of wood there could be reduced carefully. and I might cut the long straight branch on the right of the apex in half, back to the shoot lower down. being so high up, it will fill back out in quick time.
A split like this you can partially see through, can help to reduce the weight of wood up top

 

[Ruben Bouwmeester]

whats irritating you? Looks like a good decision to chop. I might make more of a split in the top. only if possible. looks to me the volume of wood there could be reduced carefully. and I might cut the long straight branch on the right of the apex in half, back to the shoot lower down. being so high up, it will fill back out in quick time.
A split like this you can partially see through, can help to reduce the weight of wood up top

Thanks, I'll definitely consider that deadwood. I will indeed prune that branch back, it is too straight. I also want to improve the nebari on the left side. Not well visible in the photo, but also needs improvement.