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faux master
Join Date: Jul-2004
Location: State College or Honesdale, PA
Country: USA
Posts: 47
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The ugliest pine ever...sort of
Well i admit this is wretched. It was a local nursery find from two summers ago. I found it burried in the depth of the place, laying on its side. About the size it is now, in a 1 gallon pot. The roots were breaking thru and into the ground. That was a mess to sort out. But for $5 i couldn't resist this ugly duckling. So after two years of saying, some day i'll have an idea. I finally had some time to sit down and remember why i bought it. The first 6'' of trunk are awesome. They are gnarled and old looking. Cool in my opinion. So my master plan for early spring is to try to graft some of the fluff on the top down on the the lower part, and eventually ditch the top part and have a nice little shohin in a few years with branch development. I just thought i'd share the pics, and see if my idea is do-able, or ever what you guys would do.
fyi: when i bought it i had no idea what kind of pine it is. Still don't know for sure.
oh and mad props to whoever took the pics outside and night to get a black background. It works well, unfortunately the snow reflected light from the road, and house that was within a stones throw of the pics. But i can see this being a really nice tool to get good black backdropped pics.
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