I got some good news,....and some bad news.
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Smoke
Ignore-Amus
That photo was a long time ago, when I had less belly and more strength.
Now the good news,....well it actually is bad too. Get to that in a second.
In the pic with the pink acoutrement, I was in the process of replanting this forest into a larger pot. The forest contains 15 trees and the largest is 45 inches tall and about 2.5 inches across. the rest vary from there. The pot is 38 inches long and three inches deep and holds a wheelbarrow full of soil. Not as large as Bob Presslers post 9/11 monstrosity, but heavy never the less.
Heres the rub, after repotting the thing it grew. I mean it really grew. I mean REALLY lots-o-growth. So now I have this huge, giant foemina forest that really needs a lot of work, but I think there is a really nice composition in there. The canopy is about 5 feet across and the thing is 4 feet tall above the pot rim.
Think this will be my winter project. Anyone have a similer problem to deal with.
Now the good news,....well it actually is bad too. Get to that in a second.
In the pic with the pink acoutrement, I was in the process of replanting this forest into a larger pot. The forest contains 15 trees and the largest is 45 inches tall and about 2.5 inches across. the rest vary from there. The pot is 38 inches long and three inches deep and holds a wheelbarrow full of soil. Not as large as Bob Presslers post 9/11 monstrosity, but heavy never the less.
Heres the rub, after repotting the thing it grew. I mean it really grew. I mean REALLY lots-o-growth. So now I have this huge, giant foemina forest that really needs a lot of work, but I think there is a really nice composition in there. The canopy is about 5 feet across and the thing is 4 feet tall above the pot rim.
Think this will be my winter project. Anyone have a similer problem to deal with.
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Smoke
Ignore-Amus
The date on the thong picture was dated 2006. That was the last time it was pruned I think.
ABCarve
Masterpiece
berobinson82
Omono
*sigh* oh to have these type of problems 
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
When was the last time you wore the thong?
Do we really want to open that can of worms?
tmmason10
Omono
Actually, I do have a similar problem. This larch was purchase this year and wired. With the birth of my son, it stayed in this nursery can since I didn't have the time to time the repot. Top branches died, the ones that didn't die grew very strongly, and I couldn't stop from pinching them back. This poofball was hence created. Hideous, but I hope to work something creative this winter/spring.
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Lol who would have "thunk" this topic could stem from bonsai? !?
jkd2572
Masterpiece
Was there any reason other than oversight tat you did not prune it?
ABCarve
Masterpiece
Looks like a great project. The similar problem for me would be the weight!! What's the weigh and how do you move it?
bonsaibp
Omono
Hold a juniper forest refinment workshop and let the particapants work on it.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Thats a great idea.
Many people have no idea what I am talking about when I talk of your forest. It is in your avatar but it is so small no one can make it out.
I was at your nursery right after 9/11 and saw the piece in progress. It was a great feat getting all those junipers in there. Some of them were dead and burned and looked like the remnents of the burning towers in New York.
I talked to you about it, of course you won't remember me from that time, but the plan was to ship it back East.
Did that ever happen, and do you have any photos of that piece to share for the forum on this 12th Anniversary?
I have some great photo's somewhere of the piece but they are on film and I have no idea which box they are in. Closets full of boxes of photo's.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Me and the dog can handle it......
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
No oversight, the damn thing is right out in the open for God and everyone to see. Other than the fact that the needles will cause huge amounts of pain to prune and my arms will swell to watermelons while working on 15 trees, and the branches have elongated past the point of pruning back and the soil has compacted to a brick, no, not really.
Just sort of not no. one on my burner........
bonsaibp
Omono
Lets see how good this is-
![forestandbobfinal[1].jpg](https://www.bonsainut.com/data/attachments/34/34596-6aa490f9e4b34dd67d653bce57e44c3d.jpg?hash=aqSQ-eSzTd "forestandbobfinal[1].jpg")
If you click on it, it'll open bigger.
I never did send it to NYC you would not believe the red tape and hoops I was jumping through. The Parks Dept. at one time was going to display it at the Central Park zoo entrance but then they said it could only be temporary. The city wanted a 50k endowment to maintain it before they would consider it. That wasn't going to happen.
Last year in the beginning of a heat wave 105-109 for a week my next door to the west neighbor cut down seven mature trees that completely openned the nursery up to full blazing sun and if that wasn't bad enough it got a major spider mite infestation. Some of the major trees died so I took it apart until I can prepare replacement trees. I'll be putting it back together this spring- another workshop maybe!
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bonsaiBlake
Chumono
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Did you ever get this planting pruned and back into shape?
Did you ever get this planting pruned and back into shape?
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Hell no! This thread was started just a week prior to my wife finding out she had stage three breast cancer. After that I did not work on trees much.
bonsaiBlake
Chumono
Oh, I'm terribly sorry to hear that. How's she doing?
Jason_mazzy
Chumono
My thoughts are with you and your wife smoke.
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