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Chumono
Glad it seems to be doing well.
@chicago1980
Peep game!
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Root!
Been waiting for that sign!
This thing is fine!
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Sorce
Fine indeed! The foliage looks fantastic also!
I didn't have to much root play this year. Here is a photo of some work early spring 2017. I reduced about 30-40% , but still has more reduction in it's future.Thanks.
I don't think you'll have to HBR anything.
You`LL Probly never have to reduce any of your current root masses by this % either.
Summer summer summertime!
Sorce
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The runners won't fit in the frame!
Found roots under the Moss today!
Thanks Vance!
Thanks BVF!
Sorce
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The runners won't fit in the frame!
Found roots under the Moss today!
Thanks Vance!
Thanks BVF!
Sorce
Ever get around to cleaning it up a bit? Shoots hanging down, selective shoot pruning....anything?
Source stepping up the game where'd this one come from I haven't read the whole thread nice dudeCome come now. How far away do you really expect me to stray from NOT doing what they say?
You know yourself better than that!
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Eh....I thought it was visible in the pics....maybe a little.
I took some cuttings from an unusable branch that was shading out useable stuff....looking good for going to root!
And I cut the tip off of the second keeper branch up ....
As it was a bit bigger than my first.
The yellowing has stopped, amd just today I found a once yellow branch greening up again.
No problems no cutty!
As soon as you get that part down they want you to cut again!
Crazy! Lol!
Spring? Shiiiit !
I brought this home from almost a full winter without frozen roots, in the climate controlled THG greenhouse.
Then it went out for a friggin miserable freezing end of winter...
It wasn't ready for it then, and it shined thru.
Going sleepy and acclimating outside this year has me feeling right good!
Sorce
Source stepping up the game where'd this one come from I haven't read the whole thread nice dude
Itoigawa
When you properly prune pines and junipers, the resulting growth is easier to "manage". You'll find that to be the case here because Itoigawa grows in tufts which alternate along a central leader. With pines, you leave two candles at the 9:00 and 3:00 positions, which you wire outward. If you know how trees respond to pruning, you can do it in a way that produces the growth you want for the next step.
BTW, I think you have way too much going on at the first "whorl" shown in that top image in post 74. Here is how I handled my itoigawa, and you have the bones to do the same with yours:
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1 becomes the first primary branch.
Move left branch up and start training shoots to become primary branches.
2 becomes the 2nd right branch.
Build the apex from the branch above.
Jin all but #1 of the right cluster of branches.
Remove the first left branch entirely to show off the trunk wiggle.
Add a strike of Shari up the trunk.
Jin everything that remains above the apex.