Nut nest!

[bonsaiBlake]

So this is a nursery yamadori (something the boss had laying around at his farm shop he gave it to me) I'm pretty sure it's a dwarf birds nest spruce. It's the right time to work spruce so I thought it would be fun to style a tree entirely as a group. Branches will only be removed if the majority agrees. I have no input, I'll only be doing what you guys think should be done. I did spend some time today removing die off, needles and crotch branches, I'll get a pic of it opened up tomorrow. I only have wire for setting larger branches as well, sorry. So let see those virtuals and hear those suggestions, this should be fun.

 

[fredman]

Don't know anything about spruces, but excited to see the happenings... Will be in the back row watching

 

[sorce]

Nice.

Can you guy wire the foliage masses apart...so we can see what is what.

I want to know (1st pic, where the left trunks right branches go.....
I feel like the middle or right one has to go....but they may have too much foliage.

Can all the trunks be moved?

Sorce

 

[Dalmat]

I would totally jin everything that goes left or everything that goes right, depends how it looks like in live.
And you got yourself a champion with a story.

 

[M. Frary]

Blake,do you know if it will backbud on old wood?

 

[bonsaiBlake]

from looking at it, it seems like it would, there are buds forming on old wood. I got it last year early to mid summer. all I've done is water feed and watch, it had a spring flush and then another fall set that opened up after a good dose of food. and just from looking at it the growth habit is very similar to my Alberta's so I would venture to say yes it will back bud on old wood, esp at nodes and crotches, even on the thicker 1-2" think branches there is growth that popped bud last season. I'll try and get some better pictures shortly, it's freaking cold out there right now. and i'm headed to vegas tmrw for my 25th, i'll be back Monday though and then we can really start tearing into this sucker.

 

[M. Frary]

then we can really start tearing into this sucker.

My kind of guy!

 

[GrimLore]

I would venture to say yes it will back bud on old wood, esp at nodes and crotches

You will find yourself cutting the growth in the branch/trunk joints a lot and yes they do back bud on old wood. We put one in our tiny front landscape last year and I am thank full it is a slow grower. For that reason think out your cuts carefully...

Grimmy

 

[bonsaiBlake]

Nice.

Can you guy wire the foliage masses apart...so we can see what is what.

I want to know (1st pic, where the left trunks right branches go.....
I feel like the middle or right one has to go....but they may have too much foliage.

Can all the trunks be moved?

Sorce

more or less yes they can all be moved. i'll get some blocks and guy wires in there when I get back, its just too cold to be outside for very long right now.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

For that reason think out your cuts carefully...

Grimmy

you heard him folks. . .

if it turn out nice i'm thinking maybe we should auction it on here and donate to money to the site.. . .

 

[fredman]

if it turn out nice i'm thinking maybe we should auction it on here and donate to money to the site.. . .

Very cool idea

 

[sorce]

This thread can be mistaken for an all male Brothel too....

You guys are sick!

Sorce

 

[crust]

I have seen alot of these dwarf spruces worked over the years and here is my singular advice. Before you dream and ponder and lust and plot. Wait for the appropriate time and repot it--and keep repoting until all the nursery soil is gone and solid block of roots is removed and managed--Be aggressive and thorough--completely clean it up section by section as much as you dare. Meanwhile avert your eyes---this way if it dies, which for most folks,many do in the transition, you will not have expended your heart and energy. Once in a good soil with manageable roots, make it grow strongly THEN you can get after it. I sadly kept a few for years tinkering with them only to do them in by weakening them to the point they could not withstand the necessary repotting process. Sigh.

 

[bonsaiBlake]

Headed to Alaska in a couple months no time for repotting. If nothing gets done with it this month or next it's going to become a landscape shrub. . .

 

[Potawatomi13]

Design by committee. This oughta be interesting.

 

[sorce]

I vote bare root repotting.

Let it regain health while you are gone!
Or die.

Sorce

 

[Dalmat]

if it turn out nice i'm thinking maybe we should auction it on here and donate to money to the site.. .

I'm in

 

[bonsaiBlake]

I vote bare root repotting.

Let it regain health while you are gone!
Or die.

Sorce

We have a motion for a bare root repot, something I can absolutely do next week.
does anyone second this motion
(sorry i'm letting my freemason hang out)

 

[bonsaiBlake]

It can be a long term project where I can update it as we go, i'll be taking 2weeks in summer off and 2 week in winter for the next few years so in my rotations off we can work on this guy. . .

 

[bonsaiBlake]

This thread can be mistaken for an all male Brothel too....

You guys are sick!

Sorce

I am headed to vegas tonight. . .