Anthony
Imperial Masterpiece
Down here a simple soil mix is used and a simple Grow and Clip,
as well as Health is more important than Design.
So you say my soil mix is old fashioned.
5 mm silica based gravel - rounded shapes
5 mm crushed red brick - rounded shapes
less than 1/3 aged compost.
Freely draining, yet water retentive,
Okay -
grows every thing well since 1980
can be without the crushed red brick.
Roots can't smash and after 30 years, was still encouraging
fine feeder roots, when we did the deep core look.
Still encouraging good drainage and water holding qualities.
Plus microbes.
Okay we have also have tested 3 mm glass spheres - works
8 mm Leca spheres - works , and 8 mm marbles - worls
and hand rolled 8 mm clay spheres - works.
All have additions of less than 1/3 aged compost.
We are now at 1 inch deep pots [ 2.5 cm ] and 3 mm soil
ingredients.
Testing on the thirsty ones, Indoor Oak [ was Nicodemia d ]
and the Tamarindus i.
A bit of Scott technology and bragging rights,
Grow and Clip
We use no fungicides/ insecticides, Follow Rodales organic
farming.
Pests are brown grasshoppers and leaf cutting ants.
Grasshoppers chomp when no food is available.
Leaf cutters when the nest wants to expand.
Grasshoppers removed by hand and thrown out of the garden.
Leafcutters fed citrus peels with a scentless chemical - locally
made.
Perhaps fully realised in the late 1800's as there are references
further back in Chinese history.
Wiring pre-dates grow and clip .
So how old are my techniques ?
J.B.pines techniqes are for keeping the tree clean and exhibition.
You have to practice to learn, and so there are expendables.
Not the main trees.
Murata says do every two years. I can trust him.
So practice, master and when exhibiting take 3 to 5 years to
go for the standard,
Also used is the see the whole tree, draw and go closer to
study individual qualites.
Put together from imagination. [ Imagination is the reshuffling of images
seen by the brain ]
An idealise form.
We keep the tree shapes simple, because-
[ 1 ] Trinidad is an island that promotes healthy trees and simple old shapes.
[ to find white wood require cliffs facing the sea in the Northern range
more of an oddity than common ]
[ 2 ] Health is more important than Design and after x time the tree outgrows
the design,
Simple shapes last longer.
If a hedging shrub is grown many times.
You can draw the shape and grow the hedge material into it.
A way of showing off.
Good Day
Anthony
as well as Health is more important than Design.
So you say my soil mix is old fashioned.
5 mm silica based gravel - rounded shapes
5 mm crushed red brick - rounded shapes
less than 1/3 aged compost.
Freely draining, yet water retentive,
Okay -
grows every thing well since 1980
can be without the crushed red brick.
Roots can't smash and after 30 years, was still encouraging
fine feeder roots, when we did the deep core look.
Still encouraging good drainage and water holding qualities.
Plus microbes.
Okay we have also have tested 3 mm glass spheres - works
8 mm Leca spheres - works , and 8 mm marbles - worls
and hand rolled 8 mm clay spheres - works.
All have additions of less than 1/3 aged compost.
We are now at 1 inch deep pots [ 2.5 cm ] and 3 mm soil
ingredients.
Testing on the thirsty ones, Indoor Oak [ was Nicodemia d ]
and the Tamarindus i.
A bit of Scott technology and bragging rights,
Grow and Clip
We use no fungicides/ insecticides, Follow Rodales organic
farming.
Pests are brown grasshoppers and leaf cutting ants.
Grasshoppers chomp when no food is available.
Leaf cutters when the nest wants to expand.
Grasshoppers removed by hand and thrown out of the garden.
Leafcutters fed citrus peels with a scentless chemical - locally
made.
Perhaps fully realised in the late 1800's as there are references
further back in Chinese history.
Wiring pre-dates grow and clip .
So how old are my techniques ?
J.B.pines techniqes are for keeping the tree clean and exhibition.
You have to practice to learn, and so there are expendables.
Not the main trees.
Murata says do every two years. I can trust him.
So practice, master and when exhibiting take 3 to 5 years to
go for the standard,
Also used is the see the whole tree, draw and go closer to
study individual qualites.
Put together from imagination. [ Imagination is the reshuffling of images
seen by the brain ]
An idealise form.
We keep the tree shapes simple, because-
[ 1 ] Trinidad is an island that promotes healthy trees and simple old shapes.
[ to find white wood require cliffs facing the sea in the Northern range
more of an oddity than common ]
[ 2 ] Health is more important than Design and after x time the tree outgrows
the design,
Simple shapes last longer.
If a hedging shrub is grown many times.
You can draw the shape and grow the hedge material into it.
A way of showing off.
Good Day
Anthony
