All aboard the Mugo train!

[Paulpash]

@Vance Wood have you ever grew or know of the Carsten's Gold variety? I styled an unknown pine (it looked like a mugo) from the bargain bucket of a local garden centre using raffia +heavy wire and I was horrified to see it go a 'sickly', chlorotic yellow over winter. I dewired it immediately and was going to leave it be all this season to recover.

I'm now wondering that if it is a wintergold my reaction was unnecessary...... I can take a photo if it helps.

 

[M. Frary]

Humpy,

That one sounds very interesting.

 

[Vance Wood]

@Vance Wood have you ever grew or know of the Carsten's Gold variety? I styled an unknown pine (it looked like a mugo) from the bargain bucket of a local garden centre using raffia +heavy wire and I was horrified to see it go a 'sickly', chlorotic yellow over winter. I dewired it immediately and was going to leave it be all this season to recover.

I'm now wondering that if it is a wintergold my reaction was unnecessary...... I can take a photo if it helps.

Mugos by nature have the tendency to go yellow if they don't like something. Whether or not this tree you had was on of the afore-mentioned cultivars is probably never knowable.

 

[Vance Wood]

That one sounds very interesting.

I thought the same thing. Hoping to encounter it's sister cultivar Dumpy.

 

[Dalmat]

There is variety Carsten's WINTERgold and that one is supposed to go yellow over winter.

 

[sorce]

No Hobo!

Sorce

 

[Vance Wood]

A lot of Mugos will yellow over winter.

 

[Vance Wood]

Here is bud break on the Zombi Mugo I messed around with all last summer. The tree is the cultivar Mops.

 

[Vance Wood]

I know you guys have seen many of these trees before but I love to look at my trees and I rejoice in the changes and improvements. I am not ashamed to show them off. It is an easy thing to post a picture of something and demonstrate some process but not document the results good bad or indiferent. When you are as much into Pines in general and Mugos in particular, this is what happens.

 

[petegreg]

Very nice, I like looking at your mugos. Once I was looking at my trees and thinking about the future direction, so... Few days ago I googled pics of VW mugo pine and got to your Bnut Content. Could spent hours looking at them. Simple, beatiful and inspiring.

 

[Vance Wood]

Very nice, I like looking at your mugos. Once I was looking at my trees and thinking about the future direction, so... Few days ago I googled pics of VW mugo pine and got to your Bnut Content. Could spent hours looking at them. Simple, beatiful and inspiring.

You are very kind, thank you very much. It makes doing this

Mugo Pines are truly wonderful trees. They may not have the kind of bark you find on Japanese Black Pine but Mugos have one trait that many trees do not have. Mugos have the ability to look old and weathered once you get them to ramify and develop.

 

[sorce]

You are very kind, thank you very much. It makes doing this a complete Non son of a bitch.

Mugo Pines are truly wonderful trees. They may not have the kind of bark you find on Japanese Black Pine but Mugos have one trait that many trees do not have. Mugos have the ability to look old and weathered once you get them to ramify and develop.

Are you so sour your good words come out blank?

What happened?

I fixed it in the quote.

Sorce

 

[petegreg]

No sir, you are very kind. For all this thread and shared knowledge.

I will come with few more mugos in July... Acquired shortly after the first one, the same HBR R procedure done... One I keep in the dirt and will try HBR R in July as recommended. So now I've got 5 mugos, replaced 1 JWP that didn't make it.

 

[Vance Wood]

No sir, you are very kind. For all this thread and shared knowledge.

I will come with few more mugos in July... Acquired shortly after the first one, the same HBR R procedure done... One I keep in the dirt and will try HBR R in July as recommended. So now I've got 5 mugos, replaced 1 JWP that didn't make it.

Yes I too have had my mishaps with JWP's. I first started doing Mugos because JWP was not available here when I first started doing Pines. As time went by I began to realize that the Mugo was a superior tree and as the Mugpos developed the desire for JWP's diminished.

 

[MattE]

I know you guys have seen many of these trees before but I love to look at my trees and I rejoice in the changes and improvements. I am not ashamed to show them off. It is an easy thing to post a picture of something and demonstrate some process but not document the results good bad or indiferent. When you are as much into Pines in general and Mugos in particular, this is what happens.

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Man those are great trees!!

 

[Vance Wood]

Man those are great trees!!

Thank you for the input. I have been in love with the appearance the Mugo takes on after a few years of confinement to a bonsai setting. There is just something aged about them, they remind me a lot of the kind of trees I see in the Mountains of N. America and Canada. After all: the Mugo is a mountain tree.

 

[sorce]

Repurposed Mugo needle.

Choo choo!

Sorce

 

[RickMartin]

I beought one with me but not sure it will make it..it gets morning sun then semi shade in the afternoon with a foliage mist 5 times a day.. I hope it thrives down here.

Rick

 

[sorce]

down here

Where did you go?

Out MI?

Sorce

 

[RickMartin]

Yep in in san antonio, tx.
Still zone 8 but on the edge of keeping mugos down here, and i may have tried to stretch the line a little and stepped over the line..not sure yet, but i havent found anywhere thats sells them here.

Rick