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Great Mugo. Is this a recent collection or have you had it for a while? Looks really good. I wish you could have made it down for our club show this weekend, we had a blast.
I wish I could have made it. It looked like a good show I saw a post on Facebook with a lot of the trees including your Mugo. This tree was collected last spring same one I have posted before but a different angle.
 

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I wish I could have made it. It looked like a good show I saw a post on Facebook with a lot of the trees including your Mugo. This tree was collected last spring same one I have posted before but a different angle.
I try to remember all the trees people have shown me and posted here but my memory is not what it used to be. Just understand that your input and participation means a great deal to me.
 
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I try to remember all the trees people have shown me and posted here but my memory is not what it used to be. Just understand that your input and participation means a great deal to me.
You would have to be Rain man to remember every tree that has been posted on this thread :).
 

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Instead, I wind up being sewerman; I'm faster than the speed of smell, I blunder into deep holes without looking and I'm more powerful than a bean toot.
 

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Lol!

Instead, I wind up being sewerman; I'm faster than the speed of smell, I blunder into deep holes without looking and I'm more powerful than a bean toot.

You keep keep typing stuff like this and we could give a shit about your memory!

Thanks for a morning laugh!

Sorce
 

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Leonard: How's the Mugo doing that we worked on this weekend? I would love to see a picture if you have time to shoot one.
 

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Here's one.
I just couldn't let it get away.20170813_095836.jpg 20170813_095853.jpg The pictures aren't the greatest but it was at the club show.
I got it from Vance. It was one he was going to work on but I talked him into letting it go.
This is what we did while there.20170813_175748.jpg 20170813_175804.jpg
 

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I havent been outside for three hours.

Haven't touched a mugo since I blasted one of some pests this morning.

I just pulled a pair of needles out of my beard!

Nice!

Sorce
 

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Let's have some fun......

Just in case....
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Yikes.....no sickle here, don't wanna' mess with the roots......
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Sniff, sniff......:(:D:D:D:D:D
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Let's see what happens.....:cool::cool:
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You have done something with this cascade that drives me up a wall. You have designed this tree in the rabbit snare style cascade. I would prefer to see the base of the tree more toward the forward edge of the pot, opposite of where you have it and the cascade a bit more abrupt as though broken not simply bent. I know this is just personal preference but there ya go.


Heheheee.......tell me how you REALLY feel!!:p:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:cool:
Not offended in the least!:) Though you have praised some horrible work and some gruesome examples here on this thread.;):eek::D:D:D:D
Actually, I don't disagree with what you've put forth, to be honest.:confused::rolleyes::D:D:D:D

So let me explain...........

I haven't really "designed" the tree, per se. It's an old piece with old bark, so any change in the trunk will be limited to manipulating the cascading branch. And even that has some old bark that I would like to protect, if I can. So the trunks shape isn't changing.:(

If you bothered to look at each picture of my post, you would have seen that, sadly, the root ball was never addressed properly by the previous owner, (alas, I was forced to do the same). Cascades should really have a strong root presence opposite the cascading branch. This tree has them beneath the trunk and branching...backwards fro where they should be. Sucks, but you make due. It's a bit of a bad angle picture of the tree newly repotted. I tried as best I could to bring the tree forwards and closer to the edge of the container as I could, while leaving some space to ensure an even, healthy root ball. Is it perfect? Hardly. Will the tree end up healthier for it? I think so.

In working with this tree, and to "design" it to look more "natural", this is not it's final container. I think I'll have to consider an outside the norm container: crescent, pinch pot, avant garde slab, that sort of thing.....I'll have to look around, but this container will do for awhile.;):):):):). The future container should allow me to display the tree to your specifications.....:rolleyes::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D


This would be the third pine that I have ever repotted and certainly the first tree of any kind I've repotted in August. I've only "worked" pines for 2-3 years, so I'm certainly not at your level. So thanks for expecting my two seconds of experience to measure up to your what, 40 years? Just a guy in his backyard, learning how to grow a tree in a container, much like your humble beginnings. While I have the advantage of "information" via the internet, we both know working on a tree is what gives you knowledge and experience, not reading about it.



I have noticed some of the more experienced folks here are getting a bit cranky lately. :(:mad::mad::mad::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 

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Heheheee.......tell me how you REALLY feel!!:p:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:cool:
Not offended in the least!:) Though you have praised some horrible work and some gruesome examples here on this thread.;):eek::D:D:D:D
Actually, I don't disagree with what you've put forth, to be honest.:confused::rolleyes::D:D:D:D

So let me explain...........

I haven't really "designed" the tree, per se. It's an old piece with old bark, so any change in the trunk will be limited to manipulating the cascading branch. And even that has some old bark that I would like to protect, if I can. So the trunks shape isn't changing.:(

If you bothered to look at each picture of my post, you would have seen that, sadly, the root ball was never addressed properly by the previous owner, (alas, I was forced to do the same). Cascades should really have a strong root presence opposite the cascading branch. This tree has them beneath the trunk and branching...backwards fro where they should be. Sucks, but you make due. It's a bit of a bad angle picture of the tree newly repotted. I tried as best I could to bring the tree forwards and closer to the edge of the container as I could, while leaving some space to ensure an even, healthy root ball. Is it perfect? Hardly. Will the tree end up healthier for it? I think so.

In working with this tree, and to "design" it to look more "natural", this is not it's final container. I think I'll have to consider an outside the norm container: crescent, pinch pot, avant garde slab, that sort of thing.....I'll have to look around, but this container will do for awhile.;):):):):). The future container should allow me to display the tree to your specifications.....:rolleyes::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D


This would be the third pine that I have ever repotted and certainly the first tree of any kind I've repotted in August. I've only "worked" pines for 2-3 years, so I'm certainly not at your level. So thanks for expecting my two seconds of experience to measure up to your what, 40 years? Just a guy in his backyard, learning how to grow a tree in a container, much like your humble beginnings. While I have the advantage of "information" via the internet, we both know working on a tree is what gives you knowledge and experience, not reading about it.



I have noticed some of the more experienced folks here are getting a bit cranky lately. :(:mad::mad::mad::D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

My appologies for being cranky: You don't think this would make you cranky? You wrote: This would be the third pine that I have ever repotted and certainly the first tree of any kind I've repotted in August. I've only "worked" pines for 2-3 years, so I'm certainly not at your level. So thanks for expecting my two seconds of experience to measure up to your what, 40 years? Just a guy in his backyard, learning how to grow a tree in a container, much like your humble beginnings. While I have the advantage of "information" via the internet, we both know working on a tree is what gives you knowledge and experience, not reading about it.

I understand all of that and if I remember correctly I asked permission to offer my critique before I said any thing. Did you want me to say I thought the tree was KuKuFu ready? We have had that discussion around here that we should not discourage people. So it seems I am suffering from the el presadente syndrome, every thing said is wrong.

If I didn't criticize trees you thought I should have criticized and criticized yours, and you think I should not have done so then I apologize. I guess I expected more from you and thought you were capable of accepting that kind of advise. I meant no harm. You cannot fix it if you don't know it's broken. There are some on this site that are lucky to keep their trees alive without concerning themselves about some of the finer points of styling a tree.
 
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It's the internet, why get driven up the wall or feel you have to apologize?

It's funny though, often you put yourself up on the cross and wonder why "the experts" throw shade on your work. Pretty much the same thing I've done. But I'm oversensitive?:confused:
 

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Hi @Vance Wood - I have a wee Mugo that I'd appreciate some input on if you're not too busy tomorrow when I get chance to take a pic? It's quite small - what are your thoughts on using Mugo for mame / shohin - challenges / opportunites etc. ?
 

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Hi @Vance Wood - I have a wee Mugo that I'd appreciate some input on if you're not too busy tomorrow when I get chance to take a pic? It's quite small - what are your thoughts on using Mugo for mame / shohin - challenges / opportunites etc. ?
They make good little bonsai. There are a couple of new cultivars that have very small needles, and very short growth.
 

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Hi @Vance Wood - I have a wee Mugo that I'd appreciate some input on if you're not too busy tomorrow when I get chance to take a pic? It's quite small - what are your thoughts on using Mugo for mame / shohin - challenges / opportunites etc. ?
I almost bought a mini one last week but mame isn't my thing.
 
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