Pugo Mine

[sorce]

. Nothing would make me more happy

My kids may have to get in touch with your grandkids but hay!

Do any of those guys take interest?

Sorce

 

[Smoke]

I have eleven grandkids and four great-grandkids and none of them care about bonsai. My son was interested for a while but more about making pots. He made quite a few which I still have a few as well as several I made myself. My son will be fourty next year.

 

[sorce]

riding the rails

Model railroading

Here's my lil 2x4ft N scale railroad. And my 2 older boys with some young feller I don't recognize!

Just a double track oval with 2 single crossovers and 2 small sidings. Like a depot juniper, this is practice for the basement monster!

This was the first time I did water, and the homemade 1/4 copper tube bridge is strong enough to lift the whole thing by!

I got dudes fishing, with hair for line, bears, a skate park.
I'll try to dig up some digis and put em on the photos thread!

Sorce

 

[just.wing.it]

I like the tree. I like mugos. Dunno why people frown on them as good material.

 

[Vance Wood]

Sorry Sorce that I missed this thread. Somehow it got past me. Give me a couple of days to go through you ample album of the victim and I'll offer up what I think. Did you look at the videos around the nursery crawl series?

 

[Vance Wood]

I like the tree. I like mugos. Dunno why people frown on them as good material.

Because most people cannot see beyond the clutter of so many branches so close together. If you have approached bonsai by the books you do not find trees like this in the books. You find single trunk or multiple trunks but usually not more than three. You find in the books, more or less, sanity in the distribution of branches as opposed to the hodge podge the Mugo will give you. In nature, where they are not sheared by the nursery trade, you might find trees like you find in the books but that is not probable in the nursery trade. After all; who wants a skinny little short tree that grows more side-ways than vertically?

Finding good Mugos boils down to two choices: One is go to Europe and harvest one from the Mountains that may be hundreds of years old and have magnificent twisted trunks and weathered dead wood, or two: Buy a sheared by machine Mugo Pine that has been grown by some nursery for the land scape trade. The way Mugos grow makes them a wonderful foundation or rock garden plant. The cutivational practices in the nurseries creates a host of problems that you need to over come. These trees can try the patience of a Saint. It takes an artistic eye to envision a bonsai amongst the branches. Once you get control of the tree they have the most amazing and beautiful growth habits.

 

[sorce]

Sorry Sorce that I missed this thread. Somehow it got past me. Give me a couple of days to go through you ample album of the victim and I'll offer up what I think. Did you look at the videos around the nursery crawl series?

Yes Sir!
I am well versed in forgiving people for "old guy" syndrome. I work with two old guys who are aging me so fast I should bring my tree with e to see if they can age it too!

Thank you kindly!

Sorce

 

[Vance Wood]

Sorce: I coppied one of your pictures. From this angle and without seeing the entire tree in perspective here is my thinking. The larger branch on the right and the slightly curved branch above it should be the focus of your direction. In essence you are eliminating a good portion of the growth off the left side of the knuckle. As what you leave on the right developes, it will start to pull out the buldge and the remaining branches will extend and expand. Until you can start opening it up it is really difficult to see where you are going. If you can access some of the videos I have put up this year you might be able to figure out what I am doing and my way of thinking about it.

 

[sorce]

In essence you are eliminating a good portion of the growth off the left side of the knuckle. As what you leave on the right developes, it will start to pull out the buldge and the remaining branches will extend and expand.

That is kind of how I envisioned it happening in my plan to get one side off next year. Thanks for the confirmation!

I may have cut those branches, one or both, but I do have a good one growing up, and a few good ones growing opposite of what will get bare.

I assume it's ok to leave a few branches on the same side as it pulls out the bulge?

I want to slowly, for base thickness and health, get it down to one. The one that backbuds most!

One more question.
I want to ONLY repot, OR prune all the way around to induce backbudding next year.
What would be a better use of the years energy?

Sorce

 

[Vance Wood]

The tree is healthy and vigorous you should have no problem getting some adequate back budding. If you repot after the summer solstice you should be fine. It sounds like you are going in the right direction. We may see things differently as far as style but right now we need to settle on a direction with positive results.

Do you recall what the nursery tag said about the tree. This on looks like Tyrolean.

 

[sorce]

Tyrolean

Home Depot.
Pinus Mugho.

I understand. The videos and pictures are logged into my brain, saved, and backed up!

When I open her up, we will find the direction!

Thank you! Goodnight for now!

Sorce

 

[Smoke]

I love trains! Model railroading is my other other other hobby.

Sorce

This is all I have left from the model railroading days. This was from back in 1981, a Cibolo Crossing plaster building and a couple Durango Press wood kits with Kadee trucks and couplers.

 

[sorce]

This is all I have left from the model railroading days. This was from back in 1981, a Cibolo Crossing plaster building and a couple Durango Press wood kits with Kadee trucks and couplers.
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Sweet! Did you weather the buiding?
Or did 1981? It looks great!

The plow is sick!

2 great pieces to still have!

Thanks for sharing!

Sorce

 

[Smoke]

I did all the painting and weathering. This is all narrow gauge stuff, HOn3. I was into logging and mining railroading.

 

[jeanluc83]

Here's my lil 2x4ft N scale railroad.

I had an N-scale layout when I was a kid. I went to a train show a couple of years ago and thought it would be fun to start a layout with my kids. The starter layout with a couple of cars the engine and a loop of track was almost $200. I decided against it.

At some point I’d like to get into the other end of the size spectrum and start building a live steam locomotive. Something in the 1.5” scale, 7.25” gauge range.

 

[Vance Wood]

Thanks for the HiJack everybody, I love model railroading too; but not here. I am sure there is a web site for that. There is the pictures thread.

 

[sorce]

I had an N-scale layout when I was a kid. I went to a train show a couple of years ago and thought it would be fun to start a layout with my kids. The starter layout with a couple of cars the engine and a loop of track was almost $200. I decided against it.

At some point I’d like to get into the other end of the size spectrum and start building a live steam locomotive. Something in the 1.5” scale, 7.25” gauge range.

Hell yeah!

Since "silver spoons" I wanted one!
Were talking about boilers right now!
Sounds like a wicked project!

I'm here holding you to it!
Oh. And my brother found some sick deals on eBay. And I find free craigslist stuff all the time!
Do it for the kids!

There is a good forum. If I can dig the link!

Sorce

 

[ColinFraser]

start building a live steam locomotive

Were talking about boilers right now!

When I was buying my house, I put in an offer on a place next door to a guy with an awesome working steam traction engine in his driveway - I thought to myself "I want to be that guys neighbor!" I got outbid on that one.

 

[Random Usr]

I stared at the titel of this thread for at least a minute before it finally "clicked". It's the tirst fime I've ever seen it spelled like that!

 

[sorce]

Here's a pair of monsters I tend to at 10WElm. Yes! Elm!




And the new stainless chimney going up 20 stories in spring!

Oh yeah!


Thats my joint!

Sorce