JBP From Seed For The 1st Time - the force is not strong in this one

[Darth Masiah]

a few of the trees that'll be 5 years old this coming spring. I'm a little surprised they made it this far. it's been 3 years since the last repot. i think I'll just add another colander under these guys.

 

[misfit11]

Nice work, Darth

 

[misfit11]

Where do you get your colanders?

 

[Darth Masiah]

Where do you get your colanders?

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[Stella]

Do you have a plan or idea for this tree yet?
I have one looking similar to yours just much smaller still. Would love to see your plan for this one

 

[Darth Masiah]

Do you have a plan or idea for this tree yet?

it's actually three different trees in post #101.
as far as development thoughts, i have a few.
looking at the second tree for an example, though I'm doing this stuff to all of them whenever the time is right.
1. grow sacrifice till the lower trunk is as thick as i want it to be.
2. when these small branches start getting vigorous with long candles and seem like they're getting big I'm going to start decandling to induce back budding and keep internodes short. these are sacrifice branches, too.
3. hopefully I'll be able to pop adventitious buds close to the trunk after decandling if they haven't already started showing up(they have). these buds will be future branches.
4. when the trunk is thick enough for my liking I'll chop to the bud i want to be the next section of trunk. the type of look I'm going for is a root base, 1st and 2nd section of trunk for some semblance of taper, then apex.

 

[Darth Masiah]

i put these seeds in the fridge crisper when i got them last june. i just dumped a hundred in some kelp water last night. im going to let them soak for three days, plant out and see what happens.

 

[Darth Masiah]

3 needle pine seeding cuttings, probably taeda. I'll be growing these out for awhile.



jbp waking up

 

[Darth Masiah]

looks like i did good last year; lots of extensions this spring. I'll have to do a little decandling this summer. i was going to add a second colander under all the older pines in red colanders.






started repotting and wiring up. coco/perlite looks to be too moisture retentive for their liking

 

[Dabbler]

Looks great, but man I would not have the time to manage all those guys

 

[Darth Masiah]

the six oldest pines got pluspotted. I'm surprised they made it through that major fungal attack the other year. they were looking pretty rough. it definitely slowed growth down. with health back on track, maybe we can get some faster thickening faking like we set these on the ground. I've been spraying wettable sulfer/yucca combo once a month. not sure if it'll hold off the needle fungus as much as deconil, but thats what i have at the moment.

 

[Darth Masiah]

Uno from post #1



i was going to break that strong candle to send more energy to the shoot above it and maybe i won't have to decandle it later to slow it down.

 

[Darth Masiah]

 

[Darth Masiah]

all the best looking seedlings got cut yesterday. interestingly i had the exact amount of sifted substrate left over from last year that i needed for this year.

 

[Matt3839]

I’m loving this thread! So awesome

 

[Darth Masiah]

checking out the jbp

 

[Darth Masiah]

looks like 3 of my younger pines caught tip blight. scary stuff. I've been spraying mostly sulfer since the last time all my pines caught the needle browning fungus, and this year i still have almost all of last years needles, and they're still green. going to use some mancozeb this weekend. should i not remove infected shoots entirely?




healthy shoots

 

[ERClover]

No advice for the blight I’m afraid (though interested in what responses some might give). But wanted to drop by and say I enjoyed the latest video. Looked like though they lost out on some new growth they stayed pretty healthy overall.

 

[Darth Masiah]

pruned a couple of the older pines

 

[Darth Masiah]

some backbuding after pruning





the ones that looked bad ended up still pushing out a new leader bud.the ones that didn't just backbudded