Shimpaku Juniper Twisting

James H

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I was wondering about what size or age does shimpaku junipers start to twist up? I was watching a video on youtube where they were talking about field grown shimpaku and the ones shown were all displaying the twisted trunks. The ones in the video were around 1.5-2in diameter trunks. I have a little one that I am really hoping to make a nice shohin with a heavy twisted trunk.
 

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James,

Apply wire, twist, let grow. Size and age dependent on how well you grow it and how long you wait. In ground quicker, more likely than not.

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Martin
 

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Right, they don't twist by themselves. Twisted trunks are either formed by some environmental factor like wind, or somebody with wire when they're young.
 

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thanks guys, the impression that I had gotten from the videos and a few people that I have talked with was that the species would naturally twist up on itself. I have another tree to wire up this spring then.
 
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This is how I twist my itoigawa junipers to give you that yamadori look...
 

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What about the bark stripping method?

Ive read the wire gets left in on purpose.

Trees respond to music. Maybe just play the song? ! Lol

Sorce
 

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Cool. I have a juniper I'm developing twists on. After seeing these pics, I want to make the twists more dramtic.
 

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thanks everyone for the replies and the links.

Smoke, that tutorial that you did on the other thread is exactly what I was interested in. I would like to learn how to take juniper and give it a twisted yamadori look. Doing this by having the trunk and branches curving and twisting around, having jins and shari mixed all into one nice little package.

I will have try some of the suggestions that I have read about here with my little shimpaku juniper as well as a couple other junipers that I currently have.

My goal is to make something like this someday.

http://samedge.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/09l.jpg
 
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