Collecting smaller Yamadori?

[mattspinniken]

I’ve always thought that collecting potential shohin was much harder than finding good larger trees. On my last trip I decided to focus on smaller trees and a few Larch and Spruce are attached.

I have focused so much on larger I’m curious what you shohin experts think of the potential of these.

Note: the red marks on the spruce are the base of the trunk, hard to see otherwise. I probably like this one the best. It has a small rock embedded in the trunk.

I threw the cascade in for fun as I’ve never found one before.

 

[chicago1980]

I’ve always thought that collecting potential shohin was much harder than finding good larger trees. On my last trip I decided to focus on smaller trees and a few Larch and Spruce are attached.

I have focused so much on larger I’m curious what you shohin experts think of the potential of these.

Note: the red marks on the spruce are the base of the trunk, hard to see otherwise. I probably like this one the best. It has a small rock embedded in the trunk.

I threw the cascade in for fun as I’ve never found one before.

Ohh that is definitely a shohin trunk!

 

[desu]

Great trunk movement and can be held in the palm of your hand! Not easy to find Im sure.

 

[Cajunrider]

Beautiful collected trees.

More often than not, my collection trips are like bonsai exploration. I don't have any specific tree or even species in mind. I keep my eyes wide open to all species, all sizes and shapes. If anything tickles my fancy and if I am allowed to collect legally, I will attempt to take it. If not, I will mark the tree and try to obtain permission and arrange for help to collect.

 

[MaciekA]

These have great potential.

I enjoy collecting very small trees from mountain areas. In some jurisdictions around here, they're often permit-legal (under 2ft size) and right next to the road (hence the permit-legal part). Easy to get, easy to bare root (conifer, deciduous, doesn't matter), minimal impact to nature (the road maintenance people are gonna cut them down eventually anyway), and in cases where these roads are pretty high up in the mountains, have often been crushed by snow in the winter, so they have some character in them already (unlike nursery seedlings/whips). To find good stuff, you gotta do a lot of exploration like @Cajunrider says, but that's the fun part.

 

[Shogun610]

I’ve always thought that collecting potential shohin was much harder than finding good larger trees. On my last trip I decided to focus on smaller trees and a few Larch and Spruce are attached.

I have focused so much on larger I’m curious what you shohin experts think of the potential of these.

Note: the red marks on the spruce are the base of the trunk, hard to see otherwise. I probably like this one the best. It has a small rock embedded in the trunk.

I threw the cascade in for fun as I’ve never found one before.

Oh my , I love that cascade

 

[Shogun610]

I’ve always thought that collecting potential shohin was much harder than finding good larger trees. On my last trip I decided to focus on smaller trees and a few Larch and Spruce are attached.

I have focused so much on larger I’m curious what you shohin experts think of the potential of these.

Note: the red marks on the spruce are the base of the trunk, hard to see otherwise. I probably like this one the best. It has a small rock embedded in the trunk.

I threw the cascade in for fun as I’ve never found one before.

The spruce looks like Picea Mariana

 

[mattspinniken]

Beautiful collected trees.

More often than not, my collection trips are like bonsai exploration. I don't have any specific tree or even species in mind. I keep my eyes wide open to all species, all sizes and shapes. If anything tickles my fancy and if I am allowed to collect legally, I will attempt to take it. If not, I will mark the tree and try to obtain permission and arrange for help to collect.

I agree . If you go looking for a specific thing you will miss a lot. Saying that I’ve never looked much for small stuff so it was fun and so nice not to have such a workout.

 

[yenling83]

These are all Epic, great work!!! plant one of them on that stone someday

 

[mattspinniken]

These are all Epic, great work!!! plant one of them on that stone someday

I think I might!

 

[mattspinniken]

Oh my , I love that cascade

Thanks, the cascade in Michigan is really rare find. I was lucky to get permission on a pretty huge area and this was growing out of a really big boulder near the water. I was looking mostly for Larch on this trip but there was no way I was going to pass up this bad boy.

 

[mattspinniken]

Planted a collected fern on the stone for now.