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Originally Posted by Yandrosxx
Victrinia,
Do you have any pics of the final styling of this tree? Do you have any thoughts on the care of ponderosa, decandling, needle trimming, feeding that you could share. I have a large ponderosa and it has always been sort of a mystery to me as to how best to deal with it.
The method displayed in this post has also inspired meto tackle a significant problem with part of my tree.
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Yan...
The tree has not yet been finished, I imagine we'll be working on it more this year. More or less the goal was to get the structure of it headed in the right direction. Daniel hasn't had me work over the ponderosa's very much. We have to divide and conquer in the garden... so it means that I spend most of my time working over the black and red pines, and Daniel works the ponderosas. I believe his treatment of their candles is roughly the same as the black and red pines, but I want to confirm that. I will get you the information you need when Daniel gets back from China at the end of the week.
He has had me do the thinning them though... Looking at the tips straight on, he has me cut the lower needles, and the needles which run along the "spine" of the tip. See the attached (very rude) drawings. This lets the light get deeper into the tree.
Daniel's feeding methods are the same for all of his trees. They get a dose of miracle grow every two weeks. The only ones he won't feed are Mountain Hemlocks, because they will get too rambunctious to his mind.
I would be very happy to see the problem you are tackling now. I always enjoying seeing how others approach challenges with their trees.
Kindest regards,
Victrinia