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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
Join Date: May-2005
Country: The Netherlands
Posts: 927
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Originally Posted by bonsaial1
Absolutely Matt! Nice work Hans. That is a sweet tree.
I would be interested at what altitude these trees are collected at, and do they respond favorably to the lower altitude?
Regards, Al
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Thanks everybody, I'm glad you like how she is looking now. It was a challenging styling, this little tree is so old and precious that you really have to think how much the tree can tolerate.
This tree was collected in east Austria at 2000 meter. It was collected by an expert who was able to collect it with plenty off roots. The after care was provided at his place in Austria at 750 meter from 2001 until 2004 when she got into my possession. She was left alone to adjust in my garden in Holland -16 meter for more than a year, so she had plenty off time to adjust to the low altitude. The only thing that happened was that she received to much rain in that year (it rains a lot in Holland.), so she had long candles when i started to work on here. This was no problem though, as this demo was in May i just cut off all of the long candles leaving only the weak ones on the tree. I have found that Mugo's don't suffer from low altitudes as long that you give them plenty off time to recover from collecting and to adjust to there new environment.
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