wireme
Masterpiece
heres a black spruce collected about 4 years back. Growing decently well now. I'm predicting that this will be the year it really picks up and back buds hard. As long as I keep it hydrated anyways. It's still in the original muskeg ball. Just moss basically, no matter how much I water these I eventually have to sit them in a bucket to rehydrate at some point, kinda weird.
Chased back the crown a little last night, started pulling branches down with guy wires last year. Will do a better job with that this summer sometime. Deleted a few entire branches here and there last night.
Going for "just a tree" like any maturish spruce in any old forest. No crazy environmental influences to shape it, just your typical basic generic spruce.
I like it, no crazy movement, deadwood, big taper, huge girth.... It does have just some consistent taper, nice bark. Thin and fragile flakes but nice. Enough branches so that I can remove enough to avoid whorl bulging and bar branching. No flaws really, I thinks that's a bit underrated in terms of assessing material quality sometimes. No weird kinks, bulges, nothing to hide..If they show up later it'll be my fault for allowing them to develop. It would be better if it was fatter, more taper, older but it's good enough for me. I hope I can do a good job because I'd like to have a nice example of just a tree around. Nebari is a problem, I should set it up for ground layering soon. There are a few buds close to the trunk on the lower branches now. Not many, I expect a lot more by seasons end. Haven't nailed down the exact spot for new leader transition up top yet, somewhere close to the current height though I think.
Chased back the crown a little last night, started pulling branches down with guy wires last year. Will do a better job with that this summer sometime. Deleted a few entire branches here and there last night.
Going for "just a tree" like any maturish spruce in any old forest. No crazy environmental influences to shape it, just your typical basic generic spruce.
I like it, no crazy movement, deadwood, big taper, huge girth.... It does have just some consistent taper, nice bark. Thin and fragile flakes but nice. Enough branches so that I can remove enough to avoid whorl bulging and bar branching. No flaws really, I thinks that's a bit underrated in terms of assessing material quality sometimes. No weird kinks, bulges, nothing to hide..If they show up later it'll be my fault for allowing them to develop. It would be better if it was fatter, more taper, older but it's good enough for me. I hope I can do a good job because I'd like to have a nice example of just a tree around. Nebari is a problem, I should set it up for ground layering soon. There are a few buds close to the trunk on the lower branches now. Not many, I expect a lot more by seasons end. Haven't nailed down the exact spot for new leader transition up top yet, somewhere close to the current height though I think.