Collecting new material help
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Collecting new material help
First let me express I am NEW NEW NEW to this.
second I live in Northeastern NY about 20 miles North of Albany
3rd I am limited to what I can find in my yard
4th I love the idea of thick truck bonsai
images below show a choke cherry air layered this past spring that I intend to chop this fall? or do I wait till spring? and Ideas what to eliminate?
2 oaks to consider, thoughts?
a beach I want to air layer that was noticed after tearing vines from the tree, would like to air layer at a steep angle to preserve the dead wood for carving and the thick trunk of the curvy branches above.
be gentle... I am new and am limited to what I can collect... the oaks I figured on chopping in early spring and waiting to see what they produce.
second I live in Northeastern NY about 20 miles North of Albany
3rd I am limited to what I can find in my yard
4th I love the idea of thick truck bonsai
images below show a choke cherry air layered this past spring that I intend to chop this fall? or do I wait till spring? and Ideas what to eliminate?
2 oaks to consider, thoughts?
a beach I want to air layer that was noticed after tearing vines from the tree, would like to air layer at a steep angle to preserve the dead wood for carving and the thick trunk of the curvy branches above.
be gentle... I am new and am limited to what I can collect... the oaks I figured on chopping in early spring and waiting to see what they produce.
whriley- Member
Re: Collecting new material help
Whriley,
suggestions -
[1] Read up on ground growing for trunk thickening, also placement of the first 6 branches, and proportion, with regards to how a tree grows.
[2] Try not to annoy Jim Lewis with images that are on their side.
[3] Do some images of what you want your efforts to grow into. How tall, how thick the trunk and so on.
[4] Above all else learn to keep your plants healthy.
Keep us informed.
Laters.
Khaimraj
suggestions -
[1] Read up on ground growing for trunk thickening, also placement of the first 6 branches, and proportion, with regards to how a tree grows.
[2] Try not to annoy Jim Lewis with images that are on their side.
[3] Do some images of what you want your efforts to grow into. How tall, how thick the trunk and so on.
[4] Above all else learn to keep your plants healthy.
Keep us informed.
Laters.
Khaimraj
Khaimraj Seepersad- Member
Re: Collecting new material help
Try not to annoy Jim Lewis with images that are on their side.
Too late. Damned camera phones anyway. Get a camera!
On your questions. You can chop the chokecherry now. I suggest about 6 inches above the branches growing from the old stump. Let them resprout in the spring and THEN decide which new shoots to keep. Oak . . . wait until spring. Beech, the American species is VERY difficult to do into a decent bonsai.
JimLewis- Member
Re: Collecting new material help
JimLewis wrote:Try not to annoy Jim Lewis with images that are on their side.
Too late. Damned camera phones anyway. Get a camera!
On your questions. You can chop the chokecherry now. I suggest about 6 inches above the branches growing from the old stump. Let them resprout in the spring and THEN decide which new shoots to keep. Oak . . . wait until spring. Beech, the American species is VERY difficult to do into a decent bonsai.
odd thing about the photos is that they view as vertical on my PC before I linked them.
Thanks for the input.
as for the beech, is it because of leaf size or do they simply not respond well to the root trimming and such? I love the way the branches naturally curve and twist, and have a number of them available to me... maples and oaks too. but all at straight with no low branches.
I want to focus on thick trunks to very thick... the smaller don't interest me as much.
The choke cherry is really smaller than I wanted but I wanted to test air layering without damaging the tree.
I may get some old apple air layers from neighbors.
I will share and inform as I progress... thanks for the tips...
whriley- Member
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