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23-May-2002
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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
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Nursery Stock
Hi ppL,
I have been involved in bonsai for about 6 yrs. I am now planning to try to start a juniper or pine from nursery stock. Which height shoud the tree I buy have before I chop of the main trunk? Thanks |
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23-May-2002
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Re: Nursery Stock
The original height doesn't really matter. The deciding point is where does the taper, movement, or interest stop in the trunk?
[*]You can make a great bonsai from a 10' tree chopped down to one or two feet, if it has taper or movement at its base. [*]You can make a great shohin bonsai from a 2' tree chopped down to just a few inches, if it has taper or movement at its base. Hope that helps!
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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
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Re: Nursery Stock
Thanks for helping. I have never had a juniper or pine but am currently dealing with local trees (I live at Malta). I have read that if a Pine is cut back no new buds will appear in the trunk. Is this nonsense or truth!?
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23-May-2002
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Re: Nursery Stock
Simsorbarton: For the most part this is true. When you trunk chop a pine it is good to have some growing buds to support roots. The tree may or may not produce old wood buds so a live limb with growing buds is good insurance. And although a juniper will bud into older wood with more vigor than a pine it is still good to have some living bud insurance. Just remember it is easy to remove wood and hard to grow it, if you get everything that you have hoped for you can always recut the trunk lower. This is a common technique for this reason and also for dieback. Dieback is where you cut a limb or trunk and the living tissues die back to a lower bud or branch and require recutting to remove dead wood.
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Re: Nursery Stock
Rip is right!
Having a branch in a good position to form the new apex is important. *Some pines will bud back on older wood. *Others are reluctant to do so, but if you continue to follow the suggestion of cutting back progressively, you can quite often induce some backbudding along the trunkline. Don't forget to look at the roots, too. *Some trees are worth acquiring just based on a great radial root system. There are quite a number of Japanese Garden Juniper (Juniperus procumbens 'nana') that have been trained around a stake. *This will usually provide some interesting trunk movement. Take some gloves with you to the nursery because you may have to push aside branches to see into the trunk. Good luck!
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