American Larch No. 1

[Shogun610]

Doing well. Except there are two big roots that emanate further up the trunk. My guess is to remove next spring or repot time when that occurs in two years? Can’t see it in the picture. Or keep it as part of design and mound it up .. I’ll get pics tomorrow of them.

 

[Shogun610]

Early Summer ooopdate

 

[Shogun610]

Gonna wire this up in fall and repot in spring , or wait another year to repot and wire in spring before bud break. I know exactly what to do for this tree and I’m happy about it

 

[Shogun610]

Repotted into this training pot , akadama and pumice mix. I last fall I cut it down a bit more to reduce height and put into a sturdy training pot , to fix the reverse taper and heavy bends into shape come next year. Roots were also a mess in field soil.

 

[Shogun610]

Waking up I like these two front. The apex will be .. the new apex with some wire work

 

[Shogun610]

 

[Shogun610]

Errkay after some pondering I’ve decided this as my next move for style


I’m cutting off above the red line or turning into a jin.. that back branch is going to be wired up and over to create the new apex.. rest of branches are actually pretty decent for positioning downward and meandering directions. There is also a back branch that will be back to right to create depth as well.

 

[Shogun610]

Initial rough styling , cut the top off and used the movement of the base on up to the first couple branches. Created new apex and branches below. The left branch for now will remain and will bend downward and develop more overtime. The right branch is bent into place to be a Jin some how some way in the future but for now is supporting wire.

 

[Shogun610]

This is definitely what I was hoping for .

 

[Shogun610]

Stellar growth so far holy sh**t

 

[Jorgens86]

Nice progress.

 

[Shogun610]

Letting this grow out , I like the positioning of the branches and just playing around w the front .. I think next I gotta look at the angle maybe tilling it .. but happy with the progress so far .. but I think maybe the second front maybe a good option ?

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

I like front one the best, as the tree appears to be bowing to the viewer. Second front comes in second. Nice progression thread.

 

[Shogun610]

Starting to slow down and set buds for next spring .. but happy w this growth and the tree .. nobody believed it would be good material but look at it now

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Im all about #3. Cool angles in that view.

 

[Hartinez]

View attachment 562609Starting to slow down and set buds for next spring .. but happy w this growth and the tree .. nobody believed it would be good material but look at it now

This my favorite angle. Looking great broski.

 

[Shogun610]

Here it is naked. Just gotta keep developing the apex ad the branching . The base is meh but it’s not too too bad the root spread is actually decent

 

[Corrado]

Gee, where to begin? Tamarack are full sun and cool roots. 6b is as far south as you can have them, but only because people insist on keeping them in shallow pots without enough capacity to keep the roots cool and the foliage turgid in full sun. To the same extent that a pot contains rocks, it has less ability to hold water. The upper limit on temperature is debatable and probably a function of how many days, -at length.

Too bad my 20 year old Adirondack tamarack doesnt know its in 7A.

 

[Adamski77]

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Here it is naked. Just gotta keep developing the apex ad the branching . The base is meh but it’s not too too bad the root spread is actually decent

beautiful tree and inspiring story...