somegeek
Yamadori
I found a nice little Kosteri at a local mom and pop nursery for $9. I like the trunk line on this and it was very full when I brought it home. Wish I took a pic because it was damn near solid foliage. I repotted it after washing off most of the broken down potting mix/mulch/roots. The material in the lower half of the pot was very decomposed. The root ball made up the top half of the pot after I rinsed off all the broken root structure. Potted this up in a pine mulch / turface mix and have been keeping it moist. Draining very well.
I've been reading up on how you prune these trees. Some hands on cleared up some of the questions I had. Figured I'd start by removing the dead foliage and then apply what I read from there to thin things out. I've probably spent four hours removing the whorls and thinning foliage to try to ensure the branches don't have any more die back on the inner most foliage and keep their lines for the main branches. The lower branches had some die back unfortunately. This has been much fun.
There is a large gap in the branches here on the left side of the trunk unfortunately.
I did remove a large branch off to the right middle that was just too far out to fit into the eventual taper. Thinking I will bend up the branch just below the cut to take that line over. The area just below the apex looks pretty full, but I've thinned out the branches up there pretty well... just a lot of branches up there.
I might clear out a little more foliage, but at this point, I'm just going to let it grow and stare at it to ponder where I want to take this next over the next few years.
Appreciate any input.
somegeek
I've been reading up on how you prune these trees. Some hands on cleared up some of the questions I had. Figured I'd start by removing the dead foliage and then apply what I read from there to thin things out. I've probably spent four hours removing the whorls and thinning foliage to try to ensure the branches don't have any more die back on the inner most foliage and keep their lines for the main branches. The lower branches had some die back unfortunately. This has been much fun.
There is a large gap in the branches here on the left side of the trunk unfortunately.
I did remove a large branch off to the right middle that was just too far out to fit into the eventual taper. Thinking I will bend up the branch just below the cut to take that line over. The area just below the apex looks pretty full, but I've thinned out the branches up there pretty well... just a lot of branches up there.
I might clear out a little more foliage, but at this point, I'm just going to let it grow and stare at it to ponder where I want to take this next over the next few years.
Appreciate any input.
somegeek
