My Mugo

[RickMartin]

I'm trying a mugo pine again, this time in Missouri. I have not had much success at reporting these. I repotted this 2 weeks ago so we will see. Today I cut the bottom and top needles off and wired some branches. I have a couple of options with this tree. I can remove the 2nd trunk and rebuild the main trunk or I can keep the second trunk and build on the whole tree. I need to get some back budding on interior branches so it will be several years before I have anything decent. Right now I'm concentrating on just keeping it alive.

 

[sorce]

Damn Rick! You get around!

Mugon!

Sorce

 

[Vance Wood]

I'm trying a mugo pine again, this time in Missouri. I have not had much success at reporting these. I repotted this 2 weeks ago so we will see. Today I cut the bottom and top needles off and wired some branches. I have a couple of options with this tree. I can remove the 2nd trunk and rebuild the main trunk or I can keep the second trunk and build on the whole tree. I need to get some back budding on interior branches so it will be several years before I have anything decent. Right now I'm concentrating on just keeping it alive.
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How are you watering this tree? What kind of soil? How much sun? These are critical questions.

 

[RickMartin]

How are you watering this tree? What kind of soil? How much sun? These are critical questions.

Full sun, it's in a napa floor dry soil, and I water it whenever it needs it, but here lately there hasn't been much need for that, it's been raining almost everyday. Please don't tell me you see a problem with the tree. I can keep them alive in a nursery pot, it's just when I repot they die but that was down in South Texas too.

 

[RickMartin]

Damn Rick! You get around!

Mugon!

Sorce

Yeah this is my last stop. My new wife and I bought a house here. We decided we wanted to be close to my mom with my dad gone.

 

[Vance Wood]

Full sun, it's in a napa floor dry soil, and I water it whenever it needs it, but here lately there hasn't been much need for that, it's been raining almost everyday. Please don't tell me you see a problem with the tree. I can keep them alive in a nursery pot, it's just when I repot they die but that was down in South Texas too.

Have you tried to discover what the difference between a nursery container and what you are growing it in is?

 

[RickMartin]

I've done some soil analysis on the nursery soil. Seems to be alot of pine bark chips in it. I've let this grow for the last year but all I got was long internodes and terminal buds.

 

[sorce]

Yeah this is my last stop. My new wife and I bought a house here. We decided we wanted to be close to my mom with my dad gone.

I hope you get to settle in!

Sorce

 

[RickMartin]

I hope you get to settle in!

Sorce

Thanks Sorce