Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Wood hardener is what ones in the UK use on deciduous. Steve Mckee/BonsaiSteve over on Instagram has many a scarred maples. I personally asked him. With my now owning three myself. Three scarred trunk maples that is.
Maple bark cracking open - what’s happening here?
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Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
You aren't out of the woods yet. The callousing on the sides of the wound is great. This crack at the top is not great. The bark is continuing to die back up there. I would carefully remove all the dead bark up there until I got to clean healthy cells, and then lime sulfur the whole area.
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
He protects this tree...with wood hardener.
Not discrediting anyone...on technique. But the UK...sees wet winters. This method they use. Will be my regiment for deciduous trees. Because UK...do deadwood features on deciduous far more than we in the USA.
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Not discrediting anyone...on technique. But the UK...sees wet winters. This method they use. Will be my regiment for deciduous trees. Because UK...do deadwood features on deciduous far more than we in the USA.
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GGB
Masterpiece
I like the character too. Id care for it the best you can and try to appreciate nature jumping in to help style
MHBonsai
Chumono
This is what I use here...
I reapply annually, at a minimum. I like how it works - it's very thin, you can paint on lots of coats and the deadwood soaks it right up. Doesn't really change wood color - but I've found that it really dries it out, and can cause some cracking/checking.
I reapply annually, at a minimum. I like how it works - it's very thin, you can paint on lots of coats and the deadwood soaks it right up. Doesn't really change wood color - but I've found that it really dries it out, and can cause some cracking/checking.
River's Edge
Imperial Masterpiece
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Looks interesting. How is it for stench? As...my lungs clearly can't handle strong things.
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Talk of wood hardener...and I seen this shared. Bizarre...Yet I found it intriguing.
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Recipe: Alcohol / Resin Wood Hardener
Wood hardener lengthens the life of deadwood. It hardens punky wood in danger of eroding away, and likely protects against decomposition by pathogens. Store bought wood hardeners can certainly be u…
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River's Edge
Imperial Masterpiece
I tend to ignore chemical smells, or wear a mask with charcoal filters. Not the best one to ask, would be a very subjective view at best.
River's Edge
Imperial Masterpiece
Noticed that email today! seems fundamentally sound to me. Will give it a try. with all the trunk reduction I do with developing pines, there is lots of resin to collect with little effort. Good opportunity with Scotch Pine and Shore Pine, both heavy in rain production.Talk of wood hardener...and I seen this shared. Bizarre...Yet I found it intriguing.
Recipe: Alcohol / Resin Wood Hardener
Wood hardener lengthens the life of deadwood. It hardens punky wood in danger of eroding away, and likely protects against decomposition by pathogens. Store bought wood hardeners can certainly be u…
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Understandable, thanks anyways.
I'll continue to use my wood hardener. As I got some when I watched Bonsai Empire's online classes and it was addressed as to using it for deciduous deadwood. Then went further and asked ones on application and frequency across the pond as they have more deciduous with deadwood than ones here I know.
cheap_walmart_art
Omono
Update 2024:
I carved around a bit on the deadwood and will just continue to remove it as it pulps out. The tree itself is growing out very healthy this year and I’ve not noticed anymore rotting spots. The bummer is all the branches are on one side of the tree so it looks pretty bad in fall. Hopefully can encourage some elongating growth to the other side to balance it out but we’ll see.
I carved around a bit on the deadwood and will just continue to remove it as it pulps out. The tree itself is growing out very healthy this year and I’ve not noticed anymore rotting spots. The bummer is all the branches are on one side of the tree so it looks pretty bad in fall. Hopefully can encourage some elongating growth to the other side to balance it out but we’ll see.
Wood
Chumono
Maybe let some secondary branches grow out dramatically this year and then thread graft them next winter? Using some secondaries on the lower right branch would really thicken that branch and help create branch taper, and then help correct the winter silhouette of the tree over time
namnhi
Masterpiece
Am glad the tree made it from that rot episode. I was fear it was a goner but so happy to see it's doing well.
cheap_walmart_art
Omono
I like this idea. This particular cultivar of JM is extremely brittle and you can’t move even the small branches one way or another very much. I’ll have to look over that bottom right branch and see if I have any opportune leaders for the job.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
I have been enjoying this thread. I must say.. That very first picture you shared to me shouted dead trunk to me. Look at it again with what you know now..
I would allow the tree a good season of pretty much uninterupted growth again. Wood hardener can be used, but is not per se needed. The trunk will create a barrier where the rotting stops, if for the rest in good health. THe dead sections will decay up to that barrier, and can be brushed out at some point.
I would allow the tree a good season of pretty much uninterupted growth again. Wood hardener can be used, but is not per se needed. The trunk will create a barrier where the rotting stops, if for the rest in good health. THe dead sections will decay up to that barrier, and can be brushed out at some point.
Wood
Chumono
Possibly move them a little bit every week? You've got the entire growing season to pull them into place, plus the newly extending growth should be more flexible. I've pre-bent branches anticipating a thread graft in the next seasons and it worked well, but nothing as brittle as Kiyohime or similar
