Calling Anyone with Pitch Pines

[BonjourBonsai]

It's an amazing collection! The bbg is such a great place, right on the middle of NYC even. Makes me think that humanity will be ok.

 

[Shogun610]

I’ve posted my pitch pines several times and ones at the studio. I’m still looking for more collected material and will be collecting again in spring time. Hey NJ bros , I have a trick for collecting pitch pine in your area itl take a year or two but it can be done. Just get sphagnum and wrap it around , itl sprout new roots, just at the base.

 

[Njyamadori]

I’ve posted my pitch pines several times and ones at the studio. I’m still looking for more collected material and will be collecting again in spring time. Hey NJ bros , I have a trick for collecting pitch pine in your area itl take a year or two but it can be done. Just get sphagnum and wrap it around , itl sprout new roots, just at the base.

Sounds like something Peter Chan would do. Maybe I will try something similar if I find a good pitch pine

 

[Shogun610]

Sounds like something Peter Chan would do. Maybe I will try something similar if I find a good pitch pine

Nah not Peter Chan but it will sprout roots it just will make the chances for collecting in sand soil better when there are new sets of roots toward surface vs deep sandy tap roots

 

[Njyamadori]

I’ve posted my pitch pines several times and ones at the studio. I’m still looking for more collected material and will be collecting again in spring time. Hey NJ bros , I have a trick for collecting pitch pine in your area itl take a year or two but it can be done. Just get sphagnum and wrap it around , itl sprout new roots, just at the base.

Any proof of the sphagnum trick ?

 

[Shogun610]

Any proof of the sphagnum trick ?

Nah

 

[BonjourBonsai]

I've got some very leggy young P. Pines, maybe 5 years old that I collected about 3 years ago. I can't make all of them literati. I'm wondering if anyone has air layered a pitch pine?

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

I've got some very leggy young P. Pines, maybe 5 years old that I collected about 3 years ago. I can't make all of them literati. I'm wondering if anyone has air layered a pitch pine?

I have not.

 

[BonjourBonsai]

I have not.

You think it's worth a shot? I'm guessing it will take pretty well given the species' propensity to back bud.

 

[Tidal Bonsai]

You think it's worth a shot? I'm guessing it will take pretty well given the species' propensity to back bud.

If you are not attached to the material, it can't hurt to try.

 

[Shogun610]

You could try because they do bud back

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Backbud =/= Rooting ability. No?

 

[Shogun610]

Backbud =/= Rooting ability. No?

Well what I meant is they bud back really well along the trunk , advantageous budding along bark. I have an old clandestine bonsai source that has collected a pitch pine that had spahgnum at the base on a rock crack for 2 years

 

[BonjourBonsai]

I found this thread:

air layering pitch pines

I bought three large 60 cm pitch pine saplings and I want to air payer them to make a lot of smaller trees as a shohin material, but is early spring a good time to do it or I should wait and do it when the trees are growing. And also should I use the wire or the ring method? I have read that...

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