Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
The tree looks healthy to me and disturbing it now might not be a good idea. I would leave it alone till afte Jun 21 of next year. Mugo don't particularly mind being root bound.
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Next year, I figure.
Looks ready for a repot.
Maybe this one will work...
Looks ready for a repot.
Maybe this one will work...
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Hell yeah!
Sorce
Sorce
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Labeled as a dwarf pine, it's most likely Mugo...
Great crusty bark, on the branches as well.
Wire could be tricky, I would like to preserve as much old bark as possible.
Trying to get enough small trees to actually display one day!
Great crusty bark, on the branches as well.
Wire could be tricky, I would like to preserve as much old bark as possible.
Trying to get enough small trees to actually display one day!
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Better photos of the container.....
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Promising little feller!
That's right at the neck of my hopeful new lead, not a bad spot, but waiting for branches to bud back in!
I really like these in this alive form!
Damn this train is long!
Sorce
That's right at the neck of my hopeful new lead, not a bad spot, but waiting for branches to bud back in!
I really like these in this alive form!
Damn this train is long!
Sorce
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
At least the tree has provoked a good deal of interest, it's good to see, and be part and parcel to it.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Not being afraid to be the Ambassador of a species.......
Sounds like American Bonsai at its finest!
@Vance Wood even tho sometimes I don't know what the hell you are talking about, the information regarding bonsai is always appreciated!
Sorce
Sounds like American Bonsai at its finest!
@Vance Wood even tho sometimes I don't know what the hell you are talking about, the information regarding bonsai is always appreciated!
Sorce
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
For those who are interested in the bark discussion. Take notice of the bark forming on this tree.
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
Look at the tender little guy! Ain't he cute?
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
Sometimes it takes a couple of years for these little epicormic buds to take off. What you need to do is be careful not to rub them off by accident and the branches they are connected to need to be cut back heavily once the new growth has fully extended while still in the late candle stage, probably the middle of May. This will force that new energy into those little buds. Of course you don't touch the new buds until they become vigorous enough you have to, to encourage other weaker ones. Yes that will happen eventually.
garywood
Chumono
Sorce, don't you think it's a "little" interesting that that bud is "there"? I don't see any work to promote it. Why is it there?
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
If a Mugo is healthy and vigorous and there is new light getting into the interior of the tree, because it has been pruned and thinned, you can expect the tree to respond. Mugos will do this. I have not yet figured out to exactly control this phenomenon, one day I will----I hope. The fact remains that they do back bud even on the trunk---sometimes.
garywood
Chumono
Vance, I appreciate your response but the tree doesn't appear to be pruned or thinned. It still buds in the interior. My question to Sorce is; Does this "seem" strange with no work being done?
Vance Wood
Lord Mugo
It must be magic then???? The tree may have been turned to allow light to enter the interior of the tree where it did not before. I don't know. I told every body I had not figured this one out yet. It happens often enough to look out for it but not often enough that you can depend on encouraging it with any certainty.
garywood
Chumono
Source, you've morphed ;-) It's not magic.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I actually did cut a bit off in spring, I can count the stubs. Maybe 7.
Then I cut a branch in maybe late spring. Then one little one in summer.
I cant say its a direct relation. But I do feel like its a proper amount of budding for the work done.
In that it made me think if I decandle or do work to actually promote buds, I may get more.
It was turned at my last post to the train.
Garywood why do I get the feeling you know something I don't?
Sorce
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Sorce
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I've seen that stuff!
The name of my town is pronounced my o.
I think that stuff is me o.
Pretty cool Sorce!
The name of my town is pronounced my o.
I think that stuff is me o.
Pretty cool Sorce!
