Blue Point Juniper

[RickMartin]

I just picked this up today. The trunk is the biggest trunk ive had on a juniper..here it is
Going to study this one for awhile. Just going to get watered and fed. I did get all the dead foliage out of it and opened it up to the light.

Rick

 

[RickMartin]

I have decided to chop the trunk on this tree also the tree is root bound with roots coming out the bottom of the nursery pot so i will take care of that tomorrow..pics to come when im finished

Rick

 

[KennedyMarx]

Why chop it? Roots coming out of the bottom don't necessarily mean its root bound.

 

[RickMartin]

Chop because for one it's to tall to be a bonsai and for two..I like smaller trees. I lifted it out of the pot..it's root bound.

Rick

 

[RickMartin]

I have several other junipers i will be posting up soon.

Rick

 

[Cypress187]

I have several other junipers i will be posting up soon. Rick

Yey, pictures.

 

[RickMartin]

Yey, pictures.

This weekend is going to be my best time for pic taking. I will post pleanty good and bad.

Rick

 

[RickMartin]

I let this tree grow out for the growing season with a little cut back once shoots got to be 5" or so. I will let it grow for another season and see then how its doing. Right now its very healthy, still producing a few new buds. Still warm here, we still fighting mosquitoes. Pic tomorrow

Rick

 

[RickMartin]

This is after I cut it back after I got it and it grew through the growing season.


Rick

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

I wish you had jinned the trunk, keeping at least 6 inches of dead wood above the chop. Juniper do not heal wounds the same way a deciduous tree does. The chop will be very difficult to make look natural. A Jin, dead wood, is a good way to "disguise the hand of man", at least for junipers.

With that chop, it will be a decade or more before you can make a natural looking transition from lower trunk to the upper section. A dead wood Jin would have made a natural transition.

Sorry about the bad review. Just being honest. In the future always leave a Jin, longer that you can imagine needing. Later it can be carved and reduced to correct length.