Loblolly Pine by Aaron S.

[Aaron S.]

The Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda) that I started for the 5-year challenge did not make it the five years before it died. I'm still gonna keep some loblollys in the collection though. They remind me of the endless hot humid summers of S.E. Oklahoma of my youth. Here is the best loblolly pine that I have at this time. It was collected in February 2021 as a seedling. Today was a big milestone for this tree, I first trimmed it and put some wire to it. It isn't the quality of work that we are used to seeing here a the Bonsai Nut. It is my first attempt and as you fine people know a bonsai is never really done.


Any comments and suggestions are welcome.​

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Congratulations on the nice start! You thinking formal upright style?

 

[Aaron S.]

Yup if the tree lets me

 

[CrippyFreaky24]

I was thinking about buying an around 4ft ish tall lob pine, and trying to train it. I was thinking about a trunk chop but I’m not sure how it would respond. How have these types of pines treated you when you’ve tried to style/train/prune them? Would you say they have similar behavior to any pines? This is the kind of idea. Nursery pine in the photos is just an example I found online and it’s much bigger than the actual pine probably would be. Even If so, no root pruning would happen for a bit however. The problem with training and then root pruning this though is that they grow insanely fast.

 

[Srt8madness]

You can treat loblolly pines like JBP. I wouldn't buy one that tall, you could never put movement in the trunk and good luck getting lower branching to come in. You don't "trunk chop" them like deciduous trees, they have to keep foliage.

 

[CrippyFreaky24]

Well yes it would still keep foliage. I would chop off the main top part/newer growth. I could most likely just have to bend the top part of the trunk and go with placing the tree horizontally in a pot.