Cajunrider
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Budding started from the base. The question is how far past the bends will the buds be.
The 2024 Yamadori/Collecting Thread
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Frozentreehugger
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What I have
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shohin_branches
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We've owned our home for two and a half years now, and when I first started pruning up the overgrown Juniperus chinensis in the front yard I found one branch had rooted itself in the ground. I cut it from the main tree early last year and it responded by putting out a ton of new growth. My plan was to slowly push the growth back on the long trunk and dig it up in a few years but my girlfriend complained about the ugly stick in the front yard so we agreed I'd dig it up this spring.
Well then I had emergency surgery so I'd have to wait another year to dig it up. My girlfriend found that unacceptable and said she'd do the digging and lifting if it ment getting the ugly stick out of the front yard. She put on her Conservation Corps work pants which always means some shit is about to get done around the house.
Welcome to the ugliest part of the yard, the front! Our side yard has a lot of really nice flowers and landscaping.
She got a really nice rootball for her first yamadori.
She carried it around to the back bench and I prepped the box. She did all the lifting. I need to take her with on all my yamadori digs.
Glad I had an Anderson flat laying around. At 5 ft long it's now my largest piece of material if I can keep it healthy. I can't believe it took me nine years to learn this lifehack of just having my girlfriend dig my bonsai material.
Well then I had emergency surgery so I'd have to wait another year to dig it up. My girlfriend found that unacceptable and said she'd do the digging and lifting if it ment getting the ugly stick out of the front yard. She put on her Conservation Corps work pants which always means some shit is about to get done around the house.
Welcome to the ugliest part of the yard, the front! Our side yard has a lot of really nice flowers and landscaping.
She got a really nice rootball for her first yamadori.
She carried it around to the back bench and I prepped the box. She did all the lifting. I need to take her with on all my yamadori digs.
Glad I had an Anderson flat laying around. At 5 ft long it's now my largest piece of material if I can keep it healthy. I can't believe it took me nine years to learn this lifehack of just having my girlfriend dig my bonsai material.
Frozentreehugger
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Cajunrider
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No problem. Should be easy enough to tell this coming fall. If the leaves stay green it is live oak.Thanks cajun
19Mateo83
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Hurricane swept style?
Cajunrider
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I am sure that straight trunk is going to be drastically bent in the future.Hurricane swept style?
ShadyStump
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Why can't I find someone that unafraid of work?
She's a keeper.
actionflies
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Goodbrake
Sapling
I love how whimsical spruce can look, almost like something out of Dr Seuss.
Frozentreehugger
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Congrats that’s a great success rate . Up here zone 4 it’s risky to collect in the fall . Without protection like a green house . I may try again with a bottom heat set up . But need something a little more robust than heat mat .
Goodbrake
Sapling
Buds are extending, and thankfully they're appearing all up and down the trunk.
PonderingSage:
Shohin
I’m not totally sure it seems Like we often get hybridization between Sierra and Western Juniper… Or maybe it’s just western.I’m still curious what juniper it is . You have a valid point . But I only collect common juniper . And normally they only turn dead brown after collecting. Most Dicid trees up here pretty much stay the same . You may alter colour slightly . But barely so . Same as fall colour some say it will change with conditions . But I have never experienced that .
PonderingSage:
Shohin
Damn! Nice job
PonderingSage:
Shohin
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