This is one of my favorite trees I have been aggressively rebuilding since I acquired it in 2022. I love tridents because you can put the pedal to the metal and completely redo the roots and top in a short time.
Here is the tree before I repot it yesterday. I have a dozen approach grafts going on.
I got the tree from Roger Case, who got it after Masa Furukawa died. Masa is locally famous in Portland and his trees pop up here and there with a lot of age, but they typically need a lot of rework.
Here is the tree on the day I acquired it:
The roots were a real mess; the base was solid wood with actual root base starting 6 inches below the soil line.
The other problem is the branches are out of proportion, at weird angles, and there are nobby reverse tapers
So every year for the last 3 years I sliced 2 inches of wood from the bottom and walked the root base upward.
In 2023 I removed a bunch of chunky sections and rebuilt the apex taper. The primary trunk's apex was eventually chopped as well
Another year of slicing
Another year of slicing
Result of 3 slices. A new root base was forced out where I want it. This year I was able to completely planarize the base; the bottom is a flat surface of solid wood. Now I can grow the final root base at an aggressive rate
I imagine a dense flame style something like below, clean a simple design, in an extremely shallow and wide container
Here is the tree before I repot it yesterday. I have a dozen approach grafts going on.
I got the tree from Roger Case, who got it after Masa Furukawa died. Masa is locally famous in Portland and his trees pop up here and there with a lot of age, but they typically need a lot of rework.
Here is the tree on the day I acquired it:
The roots were a real mess; the base was solid wood with actual root base starting 6 inches below the soil line.
The other problem is the branches are out of proportion, at weird angles, and there are nobby reverse tapers
So every year for the last 3 years I sliced 2 inches of wood from the bottom and walked the root base upward.
In 2023 I removed a bunch of chunky sections and rebuilt the apex taper. The primary trunk's apex was eventually chopped as well
Another year of slicing
Another year of slicing
Result of 3 slices. A new root base was forced out where I want it. This year I was able to completely planarize the base; the bottom is a flat surface of solid wood. Now I can grow the final root base at an aggressive rate
I imagine a dense flame style something like below, clean a simple design, in an extremely shallow and wide container
