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I am a new to this forum and am hoping I can get some help with early stages of development with Japanese Black Pine.
I have some questions regarding growing Japanese Black Pine. I do have several Japanese Black Pine in various stages of development. I have quite a few in the ramification stage and fully understand candle pinching, shoot trimming needle plucking and bud selection. Most importantly I know the cause and effect of those techniques and when they should be applied as my trees are all quite healthy and are ramifying quite nicely. These trees were purchased from reputable Bonsai Nurseries and already had been styled with the trunks having the appropriate girth and the branches pretty much in place but only needing further development.
Since having great success with this I decided to purchase some younger Pines that had light years of development ahead of them. I have read Brent’s article about growing Black Pine about a million times and have The Master Series “Pines” Book that I purchased a while back. I have found this book to be quite informative and have applied some of the ramification techniques with good success. This book is very vague in regards to actually growing a Japanese Black Pine and really doesn’t have much information regarding early stages of development other than candle pinching. Brent’s article is very informative but I am still a little confused about what really needs to be done and when.
I purchased a Pine from Graydon about three years old that last fall that had been pruned hard the previous spring. I transplanted the tree in February for my climate zone in about 90% inorganic 10% organic soil mix and experimented with Michael Persiano’s super feeding program. Put the tree in full sun in spring and let grow. It grew like a weed. I didn’t do any candle pruning has I wanted the tree to regain its strength after the previous springs hard pruning. You would not believe the growth I got out of it. I have branches in all the right places but my concern is with the internode distances on the branch extensions. I also got some fox tails as well on a few branches that I would like to keep for the final design. I understand the theory about sacrifice branches and I already have identified them. My question is how do I get back to shorter internodes? Do I prune back to smaller candles on the branch??? If so at what time should this occur as everything I have read is let the tree grow in order to develop the trunk? How do you develop the trunk and keep the internode distance in check on the branches you want for the final design??? If I can’t get some help with this then I think I might have it. Any and all advice would be appreciated.
I have some questions regarding growing Japanese Black Pine. I do have several Japanese Black Pine in various stages of development. I have quite a few in the ramification stage and fully understand candle pinching, shoot trimming needle plucking and bud selection. Most importantly I know the cause and effect of those techniques and when they should be applied as my trees are all quite healthy and are ramifying quite nicely. These trees were purchased from reputable Bonsai Nurseries and already had been styled with the trunks having the appropriate girth and the branches pretty much in place but only needing further development.
Since having great success with this I decided to purchase some younger Pines that had light years of development ahead of them. I have read Brent’s article about growing Black Pine about a million times and have The Master Series “Pines” Book that I purchased a while back. I have found this book to be quite informative and have applied some of the ramification techniques with good success. This book is very vague in regards to actually growing a Japanese Black Pine and really doesn’t have much information regarding early stages of development other than candle pinching. Brent’s article is very informative but I am still a little confused about what really needs to be done and when.
I purchased a Pine from Graydon about three years old that last fall that had been pruned hard the previous spring. I transplanted the tree in February for my climate zone in about 90% inorganic 10% organic soil mix and experimented with Michael Persiano’s super feeding program. Put the tree in full sun in spring and let grow. It grew like a weed. I didn’t do any candle pruning has I wanted the tree to regain its strength after the previous springs hard pruning. You would not believe the growth I got out of it. I have branches in all the right places but my concern is with the internode distances on the branch extensions. I also got some fox tails as well on a few branches that I would like to keep for the final design. I understand the theory about sacrifice branches and I already have identified them. My question is how do I get back to shorter internodes? Do I prune back to smaller candles on the branch??? If so at what time should this occur as everything I have read is let the tree grow in order to develop the trunk? How do you develop the trunk and keep the internode distance in check on the branches you want for the final design??? If I can’t get some help with this then I think I might have it. Any and all advice would be appreciated.