Scots Pine Any Suggestions

craig

hi all i have been ofline for a while but now i am back and only this time i have a digi camera thanks to santa so here is a photo of a scots pine i could really do with some help with this one as i think it could be a butie and i dont want to muck it up its about4inches diametre at the base and stands about5 feet any suggerstion virtuals would be greatly appritiated im not very experienced so any help at all would be great happy new year look forward to hearing from you bbbbyyye

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craig

here is another pic different angle

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FredL

Craig, I am only a little beyond you, maybe 2 years, in knowing about styling trees, so be sure to take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm as interested as you in what any of the really experienced practitioners have to say!

However......

To me, it seems like the big problems with this tree are that it has multiple trunks, but they start too high up for it to be a successful multiple trunk tree and it is too "leggy". What this means is that it isn't bushy enough; by anf large, the needles are way out on the ends of branches that suffer from very long internodes.

It does have nice, thick trunks which offer several interesting possibilities of which trunk to choose.

I think that if I had this tree, I'd first spend some time deciding which trunk I preferred. Most often, one of the secondary trunks emerges as the trunk of choice, but on yours, I think I like the main one best. I'd eliminate all the other trunks, then decide how tall I wanted my tree to be. I'd then look for the most promising branch below that point to elevevate to becoming the apex, and chop the tree to an inch or two above that branch, with the idea of eliminating the stub later. I'd then put the tree into a grow box, with the idea of pinching back the branches in the hope of my tree becoming "bushier" over the next 2 or 3 years.

I am looking forward as much as you are to more responses! Good luck with this tree, which I wish I had myself!

Fred

braden

Ok this virtual is pretty lame but you get the idea. I would take it down to two trunks and wire down the branches somwhat and then after it recovers stick that puppy in the ground for a few years with the soil level up more to bring the root base up to make the twin trunk look more believeable. Oh and i guess start pinching back stuff to try and get it to bud back some (hmm do Scots Pines bud back? I have no idea. Anyone?)

Ok I'm out.

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craig

thanks guys for the inputyou have given me some good ideas

craig

hereis a virtual ive tried do you think its a bit severe do you think that alot of dead wood works as well on pines as with junipershere you go anyway

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Treebeard

Hi Craig,

Nice looking raw material, looks to have lots of options.
You would probably get more virtuals if the picture quality was better. If I could suggest that you try to keep the picture size as big as you can, and just degrade the quality slightly to achieve the correct filesize.

To show what I mean, here is a large picture with medium filesize. The quality is good.

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Treebeard

... and here is the same picture, smaller but with a bigger filesize. As you can see the 640x480 picture is much clearer and easier to work with, even though the filesize is smaller.

Hope this helps, and I'm not telling you stuff you already know...

BTW photoshop should give you the option of setting the picture quality when you save as jpeg.

Regards,

TB

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craig

hopefully these are a little better quality

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