Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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I figured today was as good a day as any to start a thread on this tree... it was almost 60 F and the maples in the cold room are bound to wake up sooner or later and this one was on the list of re-pots this year. It originally came from Kennett Bonsai and fell off the back of Tyler Sherrod's truck late one spring afternoon after a great day of working trees... Tyler absolutely knew when to make his pitch. Anyway, I always wanted a big palmatum and this one had a trunk with movement, taper, minimal scarring and a great root spread. The back of the root spread was wanting, but the previous owner had begun improvements with a bunch of root grafts.
The shallow oval is potentially a future pot for this one, but to get there, the roots are going to need a lot of work. This nice Koyo rectangle will be a good training pot until the roots are ready.
It was planted in a large mica rectangle in a mix of lava, expanded shale and granite- as a side note, I've seen lots of folks putting crushed granite into their mix... if they are, I doubt they're doing meaningful root work because if they were doing the work, they'd never put it into their soil as it's absolute hell on their root cutting tools... but I digress! I popped it out of the pot and began working the root ball down.
The shallow oval is potentially a future pot for this one, but to get there, the roots are going to need a lot of work. This nice Koyo rectangle will be a good training pot until the roots are ready.
It was planted in a large mica rectangle in a mix of lava, expanded shale and granite- as a side note, I've seen lots of folks putting crushed granite into their mix... if they are, I doubt they're doing meaningful root work because if they were doing the work, they'd never put it into their soil as it's absolute hell on their root cutting tools... but I digress! I popped it out of the pot and began working the root ball down.
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