Collected ponderosa pine styling

[Brian Van Fleet]

I collected this pondy in May, '10. Some photos about the collecting trip are here. This tree is the last image in post 4.
Today, I worked on it with Bjorn, who is a great guy and talented artist.

Before:

After first styling...the main branch movement and profile is great, but pushing back the growth will facilitate a cleaner branch structure:

Much more detail about the styling is here...Photos are easier to upload to the blog site.

 

[Dan W.]

Great tree! And I really enjoyed the full story at your blog. Thanks for sharing.

 

[fredtruck]

Very nice tree, Brian. What do you mean by "pushing back the growth"?

 

[JudyB]

I do love the new profile, really great blog progression!

 

[Dav4]

Nice beginnings for a nice piece of stock. Is there a plan to eventually reduce or even remove that long shallow portion of root? All the collected ponderosas seem to have them. Hope it continues to grow well for you in 'Bama'.

Dave

 

[fore]

Really a great stock material! And you and Bjorn did a first rate job of it's first styling! Seemed like a lot of fun too

 

[Brian Underwood]

Strong work. Techniques like these should be more widely practiced or at least better known. I always enjoy your posts Brian.

 

[dick benbow]

I have two ponderosa's that were yamadori. Really enjoyable trees. Yours is very nice and nice to have such a good coach to help you with it. One of these days I'd love to get Bjorn out to Seattle for one of our events.

Regarding the long root, I think most yamadori trees have something like that to work on over time. At repotting time the addition of more smaller roots along the length, allows the bigger one to eventually be nibbled away at each subsequent repotting!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Ang3lfir3]

looking good Brian.... I might have wanted to gnarl the branches some more myself but I like em looking all ancient .... wondering what your plan for inducing back budding is as it a very slow process on Ponderosa


most collected Ponderosa that have those roots were collected from a crack or shallow crevice .... I presume this one is no different ...

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Thanks all. It's an exciting tree and off to a great start. I probably won't reduce the long root, it's half of what I liked about the tree. In fact many of the pondys from that area have that look. Likely I will carve some Shari into it and plant it on a long slab some day.

As for back-budding, my buddy who collected these with me has styled a couple and got tremendous back budding, so I'll have to wait and see. For now, it will be a matter of keeping it growing, then trimming back to new buds in the wintertime to further compact it.

 

[mholt]

Nice looking tree and great initial work! I don't mind that long root at all but how well you place and pot it up and the final pot decision will be a major player in the final look.

 

[dick benbow]

Larry Jackle from the denver area of Colorado has an excellent book out on pondrosa's. I'd encourage everyone interested in this pine to get a copy.

 

[Ang3lfir3]

Larry Jackle from the denver area of Colorado has an excellent book out on pondrosa's. I'd encourage everyone interested in this pine to get a copy.

I second that... its a really good book and its entirely devoted to Ponderosa ....