And another days larch work

[crust]

Larch and cotoneaster in baby-wired up and cut

Local larch I have had forever-wired and minor thinning—the upper darkness is from wetting

Large stab on slab—trimmed and minor wire—highly rammed

Small old larch—photo does not show branches right—wired and minor thin

Outstate larch—bark very crusty-tweaked—callus swelled last year due to too much fert—not good

Box larch- tuned and wired- top forever will be lopped

Lady larch-light thin and rewire—looking good

 

[Giga]

that outstate larch is awesome!

 

[JudyB]

Ahhh, lady larch my favorite. Of course... She is looking great.
You have been busy. I need to get my a.. in gear.

 

[erb.75]

wonderful trees...are larches easy to work with or are they touchy? I know nothing about them except I seem to like what people do with them (like you)

 

[sorce]

An entire horror flick could be made of the first one.

Bonsai Baby From Hell

Baby comes to life at night.....tree protruding....it sneaks into the neighbors house and stabs them in the neck with the tree. The authorities ponder the possibilities, spouse goes to jail. Traces of lime sulphur found. The chief does bonsai so he will figure it out eventually.

Flash to tree on bench dripping with blood. It begins to rain, washing away the evidence.

This could go on and on throughout the neighborhood, until the owner of the tree wakes up early one morning and notices. But he does not know what to do, in fear of his life, he becomes entangled in this web of death and eventually finds pleasure in it. He allows it to continue, he as worked hard on that tree!

Someone call Hollywood!

All the proceeds from this B film can go to BNUT!

Sorce

 

[ianb]

Very cool Larch. If there's one tree I miss since moving South it's the Larch and these tell a very compelling story - the snow adds to it too...brr need a hot chocolate now.

 

[jeremy_norbury]

wonderful trees...are larches easy to work with or are they touchy? I know nothing about them except I seem to like what people do with them (like you)

They are really easy - but don't readily back bud.

 

[ghues]

They are really easy - but don't readily back bud.

Jerry,
Not sure which Larch you are referring too re: "don't readily back bud". I have a number of Japanese Larch that I've found to back bud profusely

 

[jeremy_norbury]

All the Larches I've owned over the last 37 years and all of the ones my friends own...I've never ever seen one backbud and I've owned maybe 100.

Can you show me an example?

 

[crust]

Mine never back bud. Sometimes the singular non developing side buds that exist on a branch will revert to a developing side branch--this is usually induced by hard and deep pruning but they never technically sprout buds from old wood, just from extending new wood.

 

[jeremy_norbury]

Mine never back bud. Sometimes the singular non developing side buds that exist on a branch will revert to a developing side branch--this is usually induced by hard and deep pruning but they never technically sprout buds from old wood, just from extending new wood.

Exactly.

 

[JudyB]

But Ghughes is talking about Japanese larch. I had one and found that they did backbud. Am. Larch or tamarack, not at all.

 

[crust]

I have never seen J larch back bud either--maybe a young vigorous one or in the ground one--but then I only have a few J larches.

 

[davetree]

I have Siberian or Russian larch that popped buds all over the trunk when I cut it back hard. Some of those buds are now branches.

 

[JudyB]

Well the one that I had was pretty young, and extremely vigorous. Could never keep up with that tree, could be the difference.

 

[davetree]

Well the one that I had was pretty young, and extremely vigorous. Could never keep up with that tree, could be the difference.

Mine budded on the trunk, which is about three inches thick.

 

[jeremy_norbury]

Mine budded on the trunk, which is about three inches thick.

Photos?

And this where there were no previous buds...?

 

[Paulpash]

They'll sprout from small EXISTING buds but I'm with Jerry on this - I've never seen any Larch develop buds where previously there were none. Are we talking about Larix species here?

 

[wireme]

Can't say about trees in pots but old larix occidentalis appear to backbud around the branch collar when they reach old age. The original branches break and are replaced with clusters of small scrubby branches at the trunk. Huge old trunks, small short branch clusters at the end of their lifespan, like giant hairy carrots.
I don't really have a pic of the classic hairy carrot look I'm thinking of but here's a few that kind of show what I'm getting at. I'm pretty sure this is true backbudding and not old long buried buds?

Love the trees Crust!

 

[jeremy_norbury]

Any or all of this could be from pre-existing buds.