jimib
Shohin
Picked up my first yamadori ponderosa pine. Pretty happy about the deal I got. Not very big but it’ll pacify for now. 
Ponderosa
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Wilson
Masterpiece
Nice pick up! That is gonna be a wicked one! Lots of cool movement, definetly an original.
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Ooooooh, good study group tree!
Housguy
Chumono
Congrats! I don't have a Ponderosa, need to get one of those.
jimib
Shohin
Exactly! Jim said style this year....it was collected 2 years ago so no repotting yet.
jimib
Shohin
So this thing grew like crazy untouched all summer. Going to a workshop tomorrow with an idea in my head...and attempted to scratch out on paper
Leo in N E Illinois
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Nice. Nice bark on the trunk.
If it were on my bench. I would not bring the end of the branch up as you have it in the drawing. I would essentially keep it as is, and just work on slowly getting it to be more compact, more ramification. I would then play with planting angle. The photo
is similar to what I would consider the "final design". Simply compact the fine growth and get more ramification. But play with different angles. Your drawing comes close to being the "Dreaded S Curve". Which to my eye would be heading toward mediocrity.
Nice tree, and in its current form as in the photo, pretty darn nice as it is.
If it were on my bench. I would not bring the end of the branch up as you have it in the drawing. I would essentially keep it as is, and just work on slowly getting it to be more compact, more ramification. I would then play with planting angle. The photo
is similar to what I would consider the "final design". Simply compact the fine growth and get more ramification. But play with different angles. Your drawing comes close to being the "Dreaded S Curve". Which to my eye would be heading toward mediocrity.
Nice tree, and in its current form as in the photo, pretty darn nice as it is.
jimib
Shohin
Thanks for the input Leo....gives me something to think about. I see what you’re saying about the S-curve. That’s definitely something I want to avoid. I’m still sitting here looking at it trying to come up with ideas. I’ve been to a few good workshops now, and what I’m trying to avoid it’s just walking in and handing an artist/instructor a tree and giving them a blank stare. I want to have an idea at this one .
jimib
Shohin
So went to my workshop yesterday. Thought about what Leo said, came with a new idea and drawing. Showed my ideas to the instructor and this is what happened. Mostly compacted the the foliage and added some movement to the branches. The pics kind of suck because the needles are so long it’s hard to tell what was done.
