Give It Your Best Shot Before Walter!

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I have potted up my Pyracantha for the Walter Pall critique being given in both The Fresno and Hanford Bonsai Society. He will be in Fresno Friday night and Hanford on Sat. I will take a different tree to each critique. The one that is the subject of this post is the pyracantha.

I potted it up so that the trunk would be better exposed. It is not the final pot that it will go in, so excuse the pot if you don't like it. I am starting to grow fond of it and may keep it in there for a while. I used this pot due to the depth and the greater soil mass holding capabilities.

I had a great Korean pot, very formal indented corner rectangle, and mottled grey color. It would have been killer with the red berries. But it was just a tad too small. It may work in a few years after I get the root ball cut down, but this one will have to do. The rootball of this tree had been wrapped in multi-layers of cheesecloth. I do that so that when I transplant these urban yamadori, I can keep the rootball intact without it falling apart. New feeder roots had been seen protruding all around the gauze ball. I just slipped it into the pot, filled with soil, and voila! repot in the fall.

So... where do you all think Walter will have me concentrate my work. (Besides everywhere OMC)

Tree: Pyracantha
Height; 28" tall
Spread: 24"
Trunk: 6" at base 3" at waist
Pot: 19" x 14" x 5"

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Trunk detail

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Some mighty weird branches in there

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Ouch. I think I need a light colored background or at least a dry trunk. This looks like the scene from The Blob, that evening when it got into the crowded movie theater through the ventilation system and started to eat Steve McQueen's classmates. I know there's a nice tree in there somewhere, but I couldn't poke it with a stick if my life depended on it!



Regards,

Matt



P.S. I think the characters giving this tree its strange appearance are galls (created by either bacteria or nematode, I don't know which) that infect certain rosacea, so you might disinfect your tools with a 20% bleach solution before moving between this tree and blob-free members of the same family (Apple, Crabapple, rose, etc.)

Brent Wallston could tell you with a look, I'm sure. The crabapple gall is described in his writeup here
http://www.evergreengardenworks.com/crabappl.htm
in the section beginning "Pests and Diseases
Crown gall is sometimes a 'problem,'" about 3/5 of the way through.

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Sorry, it was dark when I finished for the night. I will read up on the blob syndrome and see what I have. These babies are old, at least 40 years that I know of, and I don't know before that. I'm sure they have had plenty of time to be infected with all sorts of creepy things.

He does say that it makes an attracvtive trunk though, that is what caught my attention when I found it.

I had just watered the plant in and the trunk was wet. I will post a pic tomarrow when it is dry.

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The way it looked in May when I collected it on the right..

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I think it just needs a little more definition in the triangle-

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