Saddler
Chumono
My collected spruce, which I have for 22 months now, isn’t behaving like any other spruce trees I own. Last summer it produced a number of new buds (multiple dozens) but almost none of them grew out and the few that did put out a few (3-7) needles that are millimetres long. A few buds that already existed when I collected it grew out as normal. I was a little worried until I saw all the new buds forming, must be in the triple digits, this summer. Do some spruce skip a season before growing the buds out? The tree seems healthy enough other then , ya know, the not growing branches out part. I have another spruce that is growing a second flush with the buds is grew last month and another collected spruce I’ve had the same amount of time grew very well this summer and has put multiple buds on every tip, even with a repotting this spring. So it’s not like I struggle with growing spruce.
Here is the tree in question https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/picea-glauca-yamadori-test-tree.29612/
Here is the tree in question https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/picea-glauca-yamadori-test-tree.29612/