More larch work

[crust]

Worked a bunch of larches today. Here is a favorite small rock bound larch I grew from a seedling. It was plucked like a radish from the sphagnum in a bog a long time ago, grew in a pot, then the ground, then a pot, then the rock. I included a couple shots of the branching just before re-wiring--the wires are messy because they had been partially cut off last year to avoid wire scars.

 

[fourteener]

How long would you say you've had this tree?

 

[Beng]

Nice tree what's the white stuff around the roots snow?

 

[crust]

How long would you say you've had this tree?

Oh, about 18 years.

 

[crust]

Nice tree what's the white stuff around the roots snow?

Ya, datz snow. She be frozen solid and will stay that way for some time. Here out side temps started this morning at 5 below. My storage facility is in the high 20's and holds there pretty well.

 

[monza]

Cool...keep them coming.

 

[JudyB]

She's a beauty. Plucked like a radish,- that brought such a feeling/vision to my mind when you said that....

 

[Vance Wood]

Beautiful tree. Harvested from a bog? Interesting how much good stuff you can find in that kind of environment. The best Larch I have seen in a long time-----maybe ever.

 

[Nybonsai12]

Awesome. Loving the trees you are sharing with us!

 

[crust]

Beautiful tree. Harvested from a bog? Interesting how much good stuff you can find in that kind of environment. The best Larch I have seen in a long time-----maybe ever.

Thanks Vance, The tree was but a wee stick when I pulled it up, perfectly straight and as big around as my little finger. Everything about the tree was grown. It was hacked back to a pre-trained branch after along time in the ground. I remember laying a old metal 1 inch screen over the lowest branch for a long time and let the top grow. I used sac branches to beef up the branch also. All pretty much randomly. The rock is a spalt off a boulder that was used as a fire ring rock during one of my boys pre-wedding drunkfests--the heat popped it off.

 

[Vance Wood]

Thanks Vance, The tree was but a wee stick when I pulled it up, perfectly straight and as big around as my little finger. Everything about the tree was grown. It was hacked back to a pre-trained branch after along time in the ground. I remember laying a old metal 1 inch screen over the lowest branch for a long time and let the top grow. I used sac branches to beef up the branch also. All pretty much randomly. The rock is a spalt off a boulder that was used as a fire ring rock during one of my boys pre-wedding drunkfests--the heat popped it off.

Never the less it is now a beautiful tree.

 

[amkhalid]

The rock is a spalt off a boulder that was used as a fire ring rock during one of my boys pre-wedding drunkfests--the heat popped it off.

This might be the coolest part of the story. I was going to ask about that rock. What a happy accident.

Awesome larch. Good bark for less than 20 years. I've seen some of Nick's field grown trees that are 20+ years and don't have bark that nice. Why do you think you were able to get that crusty bark? Did most of that bark develop in the ground or in the container?

I still have another month or so before I can pull any of mine out of the ground. Need a shed.

 

[amkhalid]

Wondering if the composition could be made a bit more dynamic with an angle change. Might take some stilts for the stone.

 

[crust]

Wondering if the composition could be made a bit more dynamic with an angle change. Might take some stilts for the stone.

actually the stone is reclining too much in the photo--lazy photographer I am.

 

[crust]

This might be the coolest part of the story. I was going to ask about that rock. What a happy accident.

Awesome larch. Good bark for less than 20 years. I've seen some of Nick's field grown trees that are 20+ years and don't have bark that nice. Why do you think you were able to get that crusty bark? Did most of that bark develop in the ground or in the container?

I still have another month or so before I can pull any of mine out of the ground. Need a shed.

As for the bark I go with a Nick's theory. Lenz always said if they have crusty bark to begin with it will develop much faster. Even as a small plant this larch was slightly rough barked--in fact all the trees in that area were--even the smallest ones. The Ogre thinks that everything was pretty old there due to the usual PH driven nitrogen starvation.