scotts pine raw material - have a virtual play

very nice work...well done!
it is not excatly the same ...but maybe your interpretation will be even better in the future

you re welcome marcus...

I hope this works out Marcus but it looks to me that you have cut the sap flow for the bottom branch.

will baddeley wrote:I hope this works out Marcus but it looks to me that you have cut the sap flow for the bottom branch.

Have to agree with Will, sure looks like that, I hope not.

Peter

landerloos wrote:

will baddeley wrote:I hope this works out Marcus but it looks to me that you have cut the sap flow for the bottom branch.

Have to agree with Will, sure looks like that, I hope not.

Peter

hi guys -
thanks for the concerns but I think thats partly the problem with flat pictures. i'm pretty sure there is a good path remaining (fingers crossed anyway ) - looking closely you notice the bulge in the raffia under the branch that goes to the right. This bulge is the base of that branch and a fair portion of it sits directly above the section of trunk behind the little jin. it is also decieving that the little jin was a branch coming straight at us (its being pulled up by the guy wire) so there is a fair bit of bark and a fully intact trunk behind it.

I guess only time will tell, but in 3D it looks like it will be ok. (next pic when its in a pot in 3 months, hopefully with the bottom branch )

cheers Marcus

Hello Marcus. Any updates on these 2?

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will baddeley wrote:Hello Marcus. Any updates on these 2?

Hi Will,

the single trunk was traded in as part of my late summer clean out - i had about 12 trees too many so sold some then traded 6 trees for 5 nice potsat my local nursery

The triple trunk scotty was going great so i repotted it - found a 3ft + long coiled root so cut it back - 2 trunks lost their needles within weeks !!!! (leaving the biggest one totally unchanged). It has budded well and will end up as a proper bunjin with carved base now.

cheers,

Marcus

marcus watts wrote:

will baddeley wrote:Hello Marcus. Any updates on these 2?

Hi Will,

the single trunk was traded in as part of my late summer clean out - i had about 12 trees too many so sold some then traded 6 trees for 5 nice potsat my local nursery

The triple trunk scotty was going great so i repotted it - found a 3ft + long coiled root so cut it back - 2 trunks lost their needles within weeks !!!! (leaving the biggest one totally unchanged). It has budded well and will end up as a proper bunjin with carved base now.

cheers,

Marcus

When did you do the root work on this tree? Just curious.

hi Vance,
repotted late march - it was in a lump of soggy bog soil surrounded by rather large gravel. no roots were in the gravel and the soggy bog soil just unravelled all the way to the floor with one long pencil thick root - on the end of this was a lump of finer root. There were about 30% of the roots nearer the trunk so i cut the long one off - march had seen my garden reach 27 C then april may & jun were very cold and incredibly wet - not good pine weather and not good to encourage fast root growth. Because this was just a play about tree i left it on the bench as the greenhouse was full of black & white pines that had been repotted and were being kept dry (they were all 100% fine).

I use very free draining soil mixes as cornwall can be warm and wet - (my deciduous mix is similar particle size to many peoples pine soil) but the sudden drop in temperature and continuous rain following repotting would have stopped new root growth for sure, once the sun came out 2 trunks basically dried up - but the other is fine so the tree lives to fight another day

cheers Marcus

Were you able to trace back what the root you cut was supporting?

Vance Wood wrote:Were you able to trace back what the root you cut was supporting?

not really, it was a very long coiled root coming from within the other roots near the trunk - pines dont usually have the 'one root to one branch' relationship that a juniper has as sap easily circumnavigates the trunk as needed - this was a case of the weather turning un-seasonably bad and the tree not having or making enough root mass to support all the trunks - it was just a play about tree as i said tho, basically used for practice and learning from - i try to practice and experiment on stuff like this so disasters are avoided on the proper trees !

As long as you are prone to experiment try repotting a Scots Pine after the middle of June and see what happens.

I like what you have done, hope that the bottom branch will survive, since thats the most important branch, which gives the caracter to your tree. For mw the less succesfull part in your composition is the top part of the trunk and apex, for this part this question:
In the original drawing the apex was above the trunk base. In your styling it's far more to the right, for my eyes and view it now looks more like a windswept tree, otherwise its out of balance. Is it your intention to pot up the tree in the future more to the left or change the apex and place it more to the left?

with kind regards Wessel

Weeijk wrote:I like what you have done, hope that the bottom branch will survive, since thats the most important branch, which gives the caracter to your tree. For mw the less succesfull part in your composition is the top part of the trunk and apex, for this part this question:
In the original drawing the apex was above the trunk base. In your styling it's far more to the right, for my eyes and view it now looks more like a windswept tree, otherwise its out of balance. Is it your intention to pot up the tree in the future more to the left or change the apex and place it more to the left?

with kind regards Wessel

i think you are talking about the tree that was sold a few months ago (mentioned about 5 posts above). i only have the bunjin multi trunk one now, with one trunk haha.

Hi Vance, yes I'm happy to keep experimenting and i'll try that when one of the play about trees needs doing -

cheers Marcus

sorry, over read that post

Weeijk wrote:sorry, over read that post

haha, thats ok, easily done. all the branches on that tree did fine. It was only £20 as a club do so was perfect for more playing about with

Hi Marcus,
I'm curiuos about your comment about limited root growth (not ideal conditions-a cool and wet April through June ) after your March repot of the pine. Its been my expereince that one doesn't need to have high temperatures to have root growth, some studies show that you can get root growth at 4 degrees (C).....but for optimum growth warmer temps are surely needed. Good work nonetheless.
Are you located on close to the coastal influence - I do have some idea of your lovely county as I've spent many a summer holiday in Falmouth visiting relatives ....when we lived there.
Cheers Graham

gman wrote:Hi Marcus,
I'm curiuos about your comment about limited root growth (not ideal conditions-a cool and wet April through June ) after your March repot of the pine. Its been my expereince that one doesn't need to have high temperatures to have root growth, some studies show that you can get root growth at 4 degrees (C).....but for optimum growth warmer temps are surely needed. Good work nonetheless.
Are you located on close to the coastal influence - I do have some idea of your lovely county as I've spent many a summer holiday in Falmouth visiting relatives ....when we lived there.
Cheers Graham

hi,
it was the excess wet combined with a long cold snap that followed our really hot march that mucked things up - the trees well and truely woke up - i was repotting Acer kiyohime january 22nd i think, other maples and deciduous through feb and conifers in march - my mercury thermometer showed reflected temperatures of 31C off the benches in full sun through mid march. The following long cold wet spell basically stopped the entire tree growing so all growth above and below was minimal - then constant wet takes its toll on pruned pine roots, temp then doesnt really come into it. This tree only suffered die back because i left it out in the weather and reduced the root by 70% - the good pines that were repotted the same were all in the greenhouse keeping dry and all were fine.

i'm not coastal, 6 miles inland but lovely and mild. - so far this year my lowest night time bench temp has been +1C.

cheers