Maiden69
Masterpiece
Finally starting threads for a few of my trees... JBP 1, probably will keep as a shohin size tree. Bought as a Mikawa JBP bare root seedling from Matt O in February 2021, wired the trunk, and planted into 4" pot. Moved into a 1 gal Rootpouch in spring 2022 with minimal root work, left to grow the entire year. End of February 2023 was moved into a fresh Rootpouch.
September 2021
April 2022
June 2022
September 2022 - I started bending the trunk around July 2022 with an aluminum wire, twisting progressively every week or so.
March 2023
After root work and placing into a new Rootpouch for one more season. I think my plan right now is to further reduce the strength of the sacrifice branch at decandle time depending on how the tree recover. Hopefully that will move the energy to the lower buds. I plan to use the stronger candle at the 1 year node as the next sacrifice/trunk section unless I can transition to any of the weaker buds behind it.
Possible future... I plan on applying some wire to the new sacrifice around July to move it to the 10-11 O'clock direction to set one more sharp turn on the trunk line.
Any suggestions?
Red new trunk/sacrifice
Blue - first branch
Yellow - back branch
September 2021
April 2022
June 2022
September 2022 - I started bending the trunk around July 2022 with an aluminum wire, twisting progressively every week or so.
March 2023
After root work and placing into a new Rootpouch for one more season. I think my plan right now is to further reduce the strength of the sacrifice branch at decandle time depending on how the tree recover. Hopefully that will move the energy to the lower buds. I plan to use the stronger candle at the 1 year node as the next sacrifice/trunk section unless I can transition to any of the weaker buds behind it.
Possible future... I plan on applying some wire to the new sacrifice around July to move it to the 10-11 O'clock direction to set one more sharp turn on the trunk line.
Any suggestions?
Red new trunk/sacrifice
Blue - first branch
Yellow - back branch