The Little Christmas Tree Contest (2020 - 2023)

[stu929]

Merry Early Christmas Everyone!

Welcome to the most practical, ironic contest of the holiday season. "The Little Christmas Tree Contest."
Because of Christmas coming up, you will see plenty of mini Christmas trees still sucking up nutrients in their jolly little pots all along the sidewalks of Lowes, Home Depot, and practically any hardware store including Walmart. I know many of you, including myself, have at least stopped once to check out one or two of these trees. This is a contest you will have fun participating in. If you are able, I suggest entering multiple because things happen.

Although Christmas themed, the contest will officially start on New Years Day of 2020 in order to give everyone a fair amount of time.

Official Rules of "The Little Christmas Tree Contest" -

Enter your name into this thread by January 1st, 2020 in order to enter

Contest ends on January 1st, 2023

Start your own thread named "__(Blanks)__ Little Christmas Tree Entry" where you will post an original photo of the tree's you will be working on throughout the next three years, including pictures and updates on what you have been doing with your entries over the course of the next three years

Use untouched trees starting off

Must resemble a Christmas tree when purchased: Any type of Conifer, Rosemary tree, etc

No Deciduous entries

At the end of the contest, you will choose the favorite one of your trees you have been working on (Must have entered each one on your thread by January 1st, 2020)


Good Luck Everyone! If you have any questions, feel free to pm me.

Why am I just finding this!!!!! Oh yes wasn't here last year :-(

 

[Eckhoffw]

Why am I just finding this!!!!! Oh yes wasn't here last year :-(

Oh yeah! My tree is dead, but ‘‘twas a hoot!
I think we could/should do it again! Maybe a 2 year contest this time around?!

 

[Forsoothe!]

Two years is marginally too short to make a tree worth looking at, much less contest-worthy, even with a ton of decorations hiding faults.

 

[Underdog]

My Dwarf Albert from last month's thin and wire job. It's been putting on new growth since then.
My Blvd Cypress and Norway Spruce


The twisted Norway of neglect has no current pic but it's alive.

 

[stu929]

My Dwarf Albert from last month's thin and wire job. It's been putting on new growth since then.View attachment 339753View attachment 339752
My Blvd Cypress and Norway Spruce
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The twisted Norway of neglect has no current pic but it's alive.
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How late can you prune a spruce ? I would love to get in on this but I would have to do work on material asap. I was worried about much a spruce would bleed this time of year.

 

[Gabler]

Never mind. The forum won’t let me delete a mistaken message, only edit it, so now you’re reading this.

 

[Tropfrog]

I just saw this thread. My alberta spruce forest was started in january 2020. I have no photos, just a video. Posted it here:

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/lets-see-those-dwarf-alberta-spruce-jams.24989/page-7

Can i join the competition?

Br
Magnus

 

[leatherback]

Where last year I did not know of any store selling trees in red decorated pots.. Yesterday at the hardware store and I had to think of this thread..

 

[PherPhace]

merry Christmas! It's the 3rd Christmas for this one. Not a contest entry but the lesson I learned from this guy is not to root prune right away. Growth has been slow. I have 3 others going that were not root pruned and they have buds everywhere.

 

[Forsoothe!]

Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown.

 

[Eckhoffw]

View attachment 344238merry Christmas! It's the 3rd Christmas for this one. Not a contest entry but the lesson I learned from this guy is not to root prune right away. Growth has been slow. I have 3 others going that were not root pruned and they have buds everywhere.

I like that unusual base!

 

[PherPhace]

Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown.

I thought about putting just one giant ball at the top.

 

[PherPhace]

I like that unusual base!

I have been considering bending the trunk hard to the left and making the bottom right branch the top. This was my first attempt at conifer bonsai that wasn't a juniper.

 

[PherPhace]

update!

 

[leatherback]

2021 edition in the making?

 

[PherPhace]

2021 edition in the making?

This is one of the 5 I started January 2020. My Norfolk pine "forest" died when I fried it with grow lights . I did a successful air layer on my cryptomeria, so it's 2 trees now but haven't done much else with it/them. The others are tough material. They're alive, but not pretty. This one is the typical mini Xmas tree "Dwarf Alberta". One of my favorite trees in my collection right now. I was able to add some age to it very quickly. Hopefully this year I can get some good pad development

 

[HoneyHornet]

Where aree contestant updates!!

 

[canoeguide]

Where aree contestant updates!!

A lot of them are in individual threads instead of this main one. Though there are not a lot of updates there either (I'm guilty of this too!)

 

[Underdog]

Where aree contestant updates!!

Here is mine. Going to decorate the Alberta soon and will post a pic.

Underdogs Little Christmas Tree Entry

Well dang, I hope we have a most improved class as I got nowhere to go but up from here. Got these from a friends nursery for free. Pretty rough condition. Norway Spruce and Blvd Cypress. I even visited the Devil himself (WMart) to find a whole cart of Blvd Cypress for 2.49. They were green as...

www.bonsainut.com

 

[Underdog]

The 2020 Three Year Christmas Tree Contest

For entries to the Christmas Tree Contest 2020-2023

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