JBP HELP!!! Virts, orders, threats, insults, ANYTHING !!

[Mike Corazzi]

What you are looking at is my conundrum tree. I got it as a "replacement" from a bonsai nursery due to an actual one with ...possiblities.... abounding but it died within a couple weeks.
I had (and HAVE) ...NO idea where to go with this tree.
As is apparent, I have simply "tried" several unproductive and misguided attempts to FIND a way to take it.
So, what's left is a stick with branches. Branches that do nothing (in my eye) to suggest something other than heading to the compost pile.

So I am pleading for any suggestions, positive or negative, of what to do with it.

Good luck with this thing.

And thanks. For whatever input you might have.

Oh, and Merry Christmas.

 

[Vance Wood]

Do you even know what species of Pine you are dealing with. There is a lot of possibilities with this tree even though it is not much more than a blank piece of paper and pencil to draw with. You need to get your hands on some bonsai books and study the way these trees look and try to get clues as to how those images were created. You would do better in a club with some hands on help from experienced people.

 

[Smoke]

There is only about 4 of the best clubs in Northern Ca around you. 2 or 3 in Sac, Gold country, all have Boon regularly as well as Sam Adina and others.

Scott Chad is at Gold Country and has lots of experience with pines. You can get a lot of hands on in your area that will be much more valuable than half a dozen people trying to help on a pine they can't even see.

 

[Eric Schrader]

The key isn't what you can do with it now, but what you can accomplish by getting it healthy and growing it to become something later. Bonsai cannot be accomplished in a day. Even the instant transformations you see on the internet are preceeded by years of growing and followed by aftercare and more years of growing.

Growing is the key. You only work on something when it's ready.

 

[Vance Wood]

Trying to glean knowledge from a bunch of people from all over the country about a pine in your hands is kind of like going hunting with an accordian. When you have competent people right there in front of you, you would do best to utilize their proximity, besides a good club is a lot of fun.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

It's going to club next month. Would have gone this month but got a virus that laid me low.
This is the only tree I have that has posed no ideas from the very first day.

It's Japanese Black Pine. JBP in the title was all I put.

 

[dirk hoorelbeke]

soil except the core seems ok. Get it growing good before cutting. You can style all branches in a good angle and character without making big decisions. Cutting back all bad placed or branches "against the rules" will leave you with a tree with 2 or 3 branches and weak. The trunk is thin and tall so it would end with one branch with me, or to make a literati, or to start the next trunk section to grow it out. This is a long term project so don't cut to fast.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Kinda like the ONE branch idea.
I think I will go whack off all but one limb and see what it does.
Forgot to mention that the upper third of the trunk is so split from a bend that it's ready to snap and has surprised me by living months after the bend.

 

[dirk hoorelbeke]

I like you like it, but do not cut before your tree is ready and branches styled for a few years. By that time you will be ready too without having to question if it's the right move to make.

 

[Mike Corazzi]

SKROOT !
Chopped the sucker to ...well.... whatever.
I'll see where it ends up. Compost is a possibility.
The whole story of this tree is crap.
The "exchange" for the dead one was a "tree for a stick" exchange.

Won't be my first mistake or the last one.

At least now there's less to think about.

 

[0soyoung]

Would you like to have the insults now?

 

[thumblessprimate1]

 

[sorce]

insults

Shitty picture.....
Great tree!

Man.....it's about time some youth came to this thread!

I had this saved for you old farts!
https://www.expedia-aarp.com/Hotel-...stayLength=1&destination=Bonsai+Garden+Museum

Lol.

Really......

Nice Cut! I like it!

Sorce

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Would you like to have the insults now?

I would prefer some whipping. Dominatrix type.

I can pay in pine firewood.