Styling advice please
- 名媛直播Learner
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Imho, upright or slanting would be the only achievable style.
Ed
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- Orlando
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find out if it backbuds, if it backbuds like a pinus sylvestris cut out the top. take the remaining
branches cut back the tops. take a shovel and don't dig it out! and make a cut in a circel around the tree if posebel and cut the roots.
leave the tree standing there for next year if it survives you have buds and roots closer the the trunk.
if you have not done it before it will probably died!
and the picture showing how to style the tree it's nearly inposebel. your first branch on the tree is let's say 50cm high.
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Really, look around a bit longer and get a better tree!
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I also decided not to skip a single tree that has any of these after seeing Graham Potter making nice bonsais from what looked like
broomsticks.
If it was usable I would graft the branches to a lower position.
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- Winter
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Regarding the transplant process I'm not smart anymore - when I do it by the book they die, in the cases when I did it all wrong they survived.
Take for example the red pine in attached: I dig it out last April without any preparation and the entire soil fell of the rootball. So spraying the roots was practically washing them. Soon the needles started to dry. In September I took it to throw it away believing it was dead, I saw a small green dot that proved to be a new bud. Since then it's growing like on steroids! At the same time I took another one with the rootball intact - it died.
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Winter wrote: It is a red pine. Im from central Europe.
Regarding the transplant process I'm not smart anymore - when I do it by the book they die, in the cases when I did it all wrong they survived.
Take for example the red pine in attached: I dig it out last April without any preparation and the entire soil fell of the rootball. So spraying the roots was practically washing them. Soon the needles started to dry. In September I took it to throw it away believing it was dead, I saw a small green dot that proved to be a new bud. Since then it's growing like on steroids! At the same time I took another one with the rootball intact - it died.
May I ask how many wild pine trees have you killed?
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Winter wrote: I believe 3. They would be killed anyway by constructions, but Im sorry for loosing them.
It is ok, at least you gave them a chance. If they were going to be removed by construction it doesn't really matter. They destroyed the forest, not you.
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Winter wrote: I guess the most expected idea would be a formal or slanting.
Not only will your pine not become a juniper, it also will not become a larch.
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Winter wrote: when I do it by the book they die, in the cases when I did it all wrong they survived.
Just try to be careful. I think that a very important aspect is the time of the year that they are collected.
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