bonsaial1

I found this monster black pine at the local nursery. It had a 2 inch trunk and stood about 5 feet tall. It hjad one thing going for it, it had this branch of foliage at the base of the trunk. I bought the tree and took it home and choped the whole top off. All I had left was this stub and the one branch of needles. I wired it for shape and carved the stub a little. I will probably take the jin down to the base of the branch where it emerges from the trunk. Tilt the tree to the left and change the planting angle. That will be next year. I figure it will be in the training pot at least five years. I will repot it next year into better soil and prune the roots to fit the eventual pot size. The tree at this point is a mass of new buds from the massive chop that I did. It even budded from old wood where there were no needles. I have not seen this too often. Ripsgreentree has walked by this tree many times and grabbed it by the trunk just about at the place where I chopped it and said:, "Grey Anderson,(the owner of the nursery) This is the tree". Now I own it and that is the tree.


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