Wallace Quince

[ForrestW]

I am starting a new thread for a tree that I am "somewhat" starting over. It is a tree I have had a long time and have done somethings correct and others wrong... The quick history is I received this tree from the North Carolina Arboretum in 2000, or 2001 I believe. I took their beginning workshop on Bald Cypress and we were each given a quince as well that we did not work on but took home. They were 7 or 8 year old seedlings pot grown with a little movement into the bases. I grew it in a training pot for 2-3 years then put it in the ground for 2-3 years and grew out a big low sacrificial branch. I probably dug it up in around 2007-2009. I do not have any photo of it for any of that time as my first child was born in 2005 and my second in 2008 and that is all my photos from that time. From 2010-2020 I kept my trees, but had the sprinkler system on most of the time, the trees got little to no wire, and poor nutrition. A few strategic pruning's a year and that all I had time for.

This photo story in my 2020- present where I was able to start working on it some more.
This first photo is 2020 before any work was done, but you can see it is a bit to elongated and a lot of the branches needed some work.



This is 2021 in April, it has some work bringing down some branching but was still too tall in my opinion.

 

[ForrestW]

I do not have a 2022 photo but here is 2023, I cut the top off this spring and I the overall proportions are improving. I moved it into a bigger pot thinking that I was regrowing a new top and I wanted to thicken up some of the middle and bottom of the tree.


Here was the tree at the winter silhouette show that December-- it looks decent in here however it was still in a big pot (without the best soil) and the apex had a lot going on.

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[ForrestW]

Here is the spring of 24-- I cut more of the top out as it was quickly getting too thick and used a good bit of guy wires this year to bring down some branches. I decided I need to go into a smaller pot if I was going to develop the apex (at least that is my hope) as it is just too strong.

 

[ForrestW]

So for the first time I was able to sign up for an intensive class with a professional. Tyler Sherrod of Dogwood Studios began doing his 3 day intensives in Hickory North Carolina. I signed up (Was on the waitlist for Bjorn before he moved) for Feb, and October. I can not say enough about how much I enjoyed and learned in that long weekend. He was an excellent teacher and and we spent a fair bit of time talking about the tree, how far back to take it, and I brought about 5-6 of my pots to discuss the best proportions, and fit. It does not look better now than it did, but I have full confidence it is on a better track now than it was. We cut all branches back to the best taper. We significantly reduced the apex at the workshop with the instructions to go further once back budding started to revel themselves. So here is how it stands this spring.

Here is the tree with Me and Tyler at Dogwood Studios. (I have reduced a little more apex in the last two weeks since than as a few more buds became clear)



Well, the tree has a way to go, but I hope to post on here some more updates as time progresses. I wish I could have done this work in 2020-- but if you have the ability to work with Tyler-- or a local professional I recommend it.

 

[NashsMan]

So for the first time I was able to sign up for an intensive class with a professional. Tyler Sherrod of Dogwood Studios began doing his 3 day intensives in Hickory North Carolina. I signed up (Was on the waitlist for Bjorn before he moved) for Feb, and October. I can not say enough about how much I enjoyed and learned in that long weekend. He was an excellent teacher and and we spent a fair bit of time talking about the tree, how far back to take it, and I brought about 5-6 of my pots to discuss the best proportions, and fit. It does not look better now than it did, but I have full confidence it is on a better track now than it was. We cut all branches back to the best taper. We significantly reduced the apex at the workshop with the instructions to go further once back budding started to revel themselves. So here is how it stands this spring. View attachment 585514

Here is the tree with Me and Tyler at Dogwood Studios. (I have reduced a little more apex in the last two weeks since than as a few more buds became clear)

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Well, the tree has a way to go, but I hope to post on here some more updates as time progresses. I wish I could have done this work in 2020-- but if you have the ability to work with Tyler-- or a local professional I recommend it.

Rob, I love the nebari on this quince.
It's too bad you don't have access to nicer pots for your trees! LOL

 

[johng]

a decade of benign neglect...I wish all my trees could have that

 

[just.wing.it]

Beautiful. Nice work.

 

[minkes]

So beautiful! Great job

 

[Gabler]

Who is Wallace Quince? Is you name Wallace Quince, or did you name the quince Wallace?

 

[KateM]

Rob Wallace owns this quince. That's my interpretation...

 

[Carol 83]

That bark and new pot. Nice job.

 

[ForrestW]

Rob, I love the nebari on this quince.
It's too bad you don't have access to nicer pots for your trees! LOL

Thanks-- I made several pots for it this spring, and ended up removing a japanese maple from this pot as it seemed a better fit than the ones I made last month. . It is nice to have options at hand.

Beautiful. Nice work.

Thank you very much-- now If I can develop ramification and the apex without it getting too thick.

So beautiful! Great job

Thanks so much

Who is Wallace Quince? Is you name Wallace Quince, or did you name the quince Wallace?

Sorry Rob Wallace-- (Chinese quince) I see a lot of people title their threads with their name and species. So I started doing that for ones I hope to show the development.

Rob Wallace owns this quince. That's my interpretation...

Bingo

That bark and new pot. Nice job.

Thank you very much