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[Wires_Guy_wires]

Find the caterpillar


Buds still popping on this JRP

 

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Loooooong way to go. After a good two seasons of growing this one got new shoes and some snakelike bends. Now it's time for heavy feeding and repairing the damage. Needle length has almost doubled since last year, but shoot pruning makes it look a bit leggy. There wasn't much, there isn't much, but there will be more. Got some nice backbudding.


Norwegian type sylvestris. It keeps budding at every node. Also still a long way to go, lots of scarring. But for a 6 euro pine, who cares.

 

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Made some moss sprinkles today.

 

[Clicio]

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Made some moss sprinkles today.

You won't believe it, but I have done the same today!

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Quite the difference in color. One JRP is happy, the other one isn't. But they're in the same pot.


Naked red beech.


Erc winter colors.


Berries on the blaauw, I wonder what kind of hybrid they are. I might grow them out.


Skinny larch on the rocks.


Is Rodney a suitable name? Trash juniper mint julep. Five more years of growing to go. Might graft it with itoigawa later when/if the trunk is worth it.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Hard to see here, but cutting the needles with a scissor instead of pulling them, seems to be easy on the fascicular buds. Japanese red pine from seed.


Needs a total rewire next year, but it's looking OK for now. A bit scruffy. Might do a rebar-wooden-block-enforced bend of the lower trunk next year. Two years(?) since collection. European spruce.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Let's give these a go! Seeds from the blaauw juniper. Can't say I recommend chafing juniper seeds yourself. But if you ever want to, make a tub of soapy water and squeeze the seeds out. Be prepared for hand cramps though. Then do collander stuff like separating and washing. I got 80% of the batch done. The remainder will be sown with berry and all.
Time for some drying and stratification.

 

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After drying 12 hours at 30°C and some more cleaning.


Some immediate sinkers!

Sowing them tomorrow or sunday. Stratification will be done outdoors, since winter has just begun here.

 

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A young blaauw juniper. 6 euros. I wired the trunk when I repotted it last spring and it didn't give me any inspiration. It was left on the bench for the entire year until I saw where I wanted to take it.

I'm not satisfied about the wiring. Right hand side will become a big jin in the future, this way the back branch that's hidden will pop out OK. But for now I'm keeping it for a year or two to both add to the thickness of the trunk as well as fattening up the future deadwood as well. Either one of the lower left branches will have to go, but I'm letting that depend on the amount of juvenile/scale foliage next year.
At least the bones are set, ugly and wonky, but set. On the bright side: constriction isn't an issue.
Going to feed it heavily next spring so I can do some selective pruning and tidy it up in the summer.

 

[Crazy Diamond]

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Roots on the ponderosa cuttings from this year.

Cuttings?

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Yes, @Arnold. From seedlings of most pines, you can cut off the tap root and make a cutting of the entire seedling. This should in theory improve the radial rooting in all directions. But my ponderosa tend to make a single tap root again, just like regular seedlings.
The plus side in all cases is that you can get buds at the soil level, because you remove a part of the trunk and root directly below the first needles.

 

[Crazy Diamond]

Ahh yes I know that method Im doing it right now with Pinus canariensis seedlings, I thought it was regular branch cuttings

 

[leatherback]

I thought it was regular branch cuttings

even that works with a number of pine species..

 

[Crazy Diamond]

In theory zuisho jbp can be propagated by cuttings

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Oakey dokie. Starting a little box of English oaks from the netherlands.

 

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Pollen cones from a pfizer (top) and turbinata juniper (bottom). Quite a difference!

@HorseloverFat

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Weird. -15°C last week, +17°C today.
From wintercoat to comfy t-shirt weather within 7 days. Some of the snow piles are still in the streets.

Y'all know what that means? It means it's time to fertilize.
Did a small first round today. Not for the trees, but for the microbes. Get them pumping before repotting season hits off.

Not much to repot this year though. Most of the work was done last year.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

New cherries!


The winter bin. Ponderosa, banksiana, phoenicean juniper.


Phoenicean juniper from seed. Took a beating in the frost.


Gnarly cedrus, from seed. Year 3?


Shaggy pondies.

Alright. I just repotted and wired a scots pine. And I fricking lost it. Couldn't find it anywhere.

Three minutes after panicking.. I remembered I gave it a soak. Damn, getting old.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Phoenicean Juni?

Suh-weet!

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Phoenicean Juni?

Suh-weet!

Yeah I saw a bunch in Spain in 2018 or so. Took some seeds home because the foliage was pretty awesome.
Turbinata is the most suited for bonsai but also the rarest. I have just two from seed, maybe zero if the frost got them. Phoenicea var. Phoenicea is more cold hardy.
It seems that they're also genderfluid; both female and male structures on the same plant.