All aboard the Mugo train!

[LanceMac10]

Update on my scraggly ol' mugo....little beat-up after the backwards, upside-down growing season we had in my parts. Bottom branches seem vigorous enough...

Top just waking up...

 

[GrimLore]

Bottom branches seem vigorous enough...

Looks healthy and I suppose it will bounce back good. I am heading out to get a few more small ones from that lot this weekend as the little one I posted seems to have passed as far as health goes. First ones for me so learning will be ok as I don't have much else to do except water and grow sticks this year.

Grimmy

 

[mattspinniken]

Done as instructed, it had a lot of roots. Repotting it uncovered about a 6" root base.

 

[RickMartin]

Here is mine.

 

[RickMartin]

Oppps double posts the chop sticks were in there for the trip.. Took that pic right when i got it here.

Rick

 

[RickMartin]

And i de-railed the mugo train..sorry Mike.

Rick

 

[RickMartin]

Anyway at the end of June im going to do some branch selection and slipping it into a colunder.

Rick

 

[M. Frary]

And i de-railed the mugo train..sorry Mike.

Rick

There's no stopping this train!
I still need to get one for this year too. I only have 4 at the moment.

 

[RickMartin]

I only have 1 but if it can live down here i will be getting more

Rick

 

[Vance Wood]

It is going to be a balancing act between getting enough light and not frying like a bug on asphalt. That's where the access to shade will come in.

 

[RickMartin]

I have a back patio with a deck over it on the second floor..so i should be ok

Rick

 

[sorce]

https://www.google.com/search?q=tin...MAhUFRyYKHZvmCNIQ1TUILw&biw=360&bih=519&dpr=3

Sorce

 

[RickMartin]

https://www.google.com/search?q=tin...MAhUFRyYKHZvmCNIQ1TUILw&biw=360&bih=519&dpr=3

Sorce

Thanks sorce..if this one lives for a couple of seasons i know where i can get them now at least..definitely not getting them down here.

Rick

 

[sorce]

Thanks sorce..if this one lives for a couple of seasons i know where i can get them now at least..definitely not getting them down here.

Rick

I don't known it I'd buy from any of those places....
The last one for the seeds especially.....
3d printing....WTF?

I never knew of that gold one though.
Interesting. .

I'm looking for one of those tiny tinyones.
Maybe from The Hidden Gardens!

@Alain dont you have one from THG?

Sorce

 

[RickMartin]

I could make this one tiny..just not sure i want to.. It has several half circled branches to the left. Windswept mugo???.

Rick

 

[PiñonJ]

https://www.google.com/search?q=tin...MAhUFRyYKHZvmCNIQ1TUILw&biw=360&bih=519&dpr=3

Sorce

Kigi Nursery looks interesting. Great selection. You haven't ordered anything from them?

 

[Vance Wood]

I did not realize that there were so many cultivars of this tree! (Mugo) Thanks for sharing the link with the list.

 

[sorce]

I did not realize that there were so many cultivars of this tree! (Mugo) Thanks for sharing the link with the list.

Talk about Crazy right!

Sorce

 

[Vance Wood]

Talk about Crazy right!

Sorce

Of course the question remains; how available are these cultivars and how good are they for bonsai culture. I suppose at some point I am going to have to get my hands on one of them and see how they do. I am not sure how they are created either by graft or cutting, I suspect cuttings. Never the less can they adapt to the kind of abuse a tree has to endure in life as a bonsai.

 

[RickMartin]

Sorce hows your tree doing..have any recent pics

Rick