Hartinez
Masterpiece
I wanted to start the documentation on a couple Coral Beauty Cotoneaster that i picked up in late may. I had started a shohin, maybe closer to mame size, Coral beauty a few years ago that was quickly becoming one of my favorite trees. The form was relatively typical, but the trunk scale, branch placement, leaf size and flowers made this tree pretty special. Well unfortunately the tree ended up dead after moving into my dads house. Here is that thread. To give you the break down without doing it here. I think there were a number of factors that lead to its demise.
I loved that little tree and am confident I can right the wrongs and produce better results on a long term tree. My local wholesale nursery happened to get a big shipment of 3 gal. coral beauty and at $23 i couldnt pass them up. I started initially with just 1 tree, but went back the next week and bought a second. I have found that cotoneaster have a much larger window for aggressive repot than a standard deciduous. I sawed half the bottom half of both trees then raked out and completely hosed out as much existing soil as I could. Dam near a full bare root. I didn’t however, cut more of the roots beyond the initial saw job than was necessary. I also chopped back to an appealing trunk line On both and cut pasted all of the cuts. Well both trees have responded very well with excellent growth and bud locations along with most cut sites already beginning to form callous tissue causing the cut paste to begin to crack.
Unlike my other tree that died, I dont plan on beginning to cut back hard on new growth on either of these trees this season. My goal will be to bud and branch select and allow the initial branches to extend and thicken. As the shoots get long enough for wire I will place the branches in there long term positIon. Really its all about the first 1/2” from the trunk on all these branches as I will be cutting them all back hard next season. Also, since I was able to bare root both trees, I dont plan on repotting for several years.
I think both there trees hold great potential.
Tree 1
May 30
June 24
I loved that little tree and am confident I can right the wrongs and produce better results on a long term tree. My local wholesale nursery happened to get a big shipment of 3 gal. coral beauty and at $23 i couldnt pass them up. I started initially with just 1 tree, but went back the next week and bought a second. I have found that cotoneaster have a much larger window for aggressive repot than a standard deciduous. I sawed half the bottom half of both trees then raked out and completely hosed out as much existing soil as I could. Dam near a full bare root. I didn’t however, cut more of the roots beyond the initial saw job than was necessary. I also chopped back to an appealing trunk line On both and cut pasted all of the cuts. Well both trees have responded very well with excellent growth and bud locations along with most cut sites already beginning to form callous tissue causing the cut paste to begin to crack.
Unlike my other tree that died, I dont plan on beginning to cut back hard on new growth on either of these trees this season. My goal will be to bud and branch select and allow the initial branches to extend and thicken. As the shoots get long enough for wire I will place the branches in there long term positIon. Really its all about the first 1/2” from the trunk on all these branches as I will be cutting them all back hard next season. Also, since I was able to bare root both trees, I dont plan on repotting for several years.
I think both there trees hold great potential.
Tree 1
May 30
June 24
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