This was collected from a test plot 12 months ago, no-one has been able to identify this species of pine so it s a 2 needle trainer .
They are very easy to collect having excellent feeder roots close to the base and can handle rough treatment .I collect these bare rooted and bring them home . Some say you can’t do that with pines , i collect several species including Pinus Nigra Austriaca bare rooted . The terrain around here doesn’t allow for an easy collection being sticky clay and shale . None of which can be left on the roots as they will rot very quickly . Collecting dozens of pines per season i can basically tell whether or not it will survive before i dig , knowing the species and its dislikes helps . As with all collected material its potted in Red Scoria and pine bark , this seems to work extremely well on all my stock .
I have decided on an informal upright trainer in this case using a thicker upper branch for the leader, it was chopped at this point last year when collected . The bark on the younger branch is soft so i have wrapped it in raffia to reduce the damage to the bark when bending and shaping . After the raffia is wrapped the wire is placed onto the trunk and upper leader using 2-3 3mm aluminium wires . 
Due to the one sided growth the leader will require a major rotation approximately 180 degree then another 90 degree futher up from the exit point to the mid upper section along with some severe bends to shape the trunk . With the trunk rotated and shaped wires are added to the lesser branches and shaped . 
With all the hard work done including trimming and needle plucking i decided to have a check of the roots , this was simply a matter of trimming the ugly thick roots out and potting it into a doubled up seed tray as i had no pots to suit this tree . This will now be set back into the scoria beds and left for another season . The wire will be removed in about 9 months to allow any new shoots to sprout from were the raffia is .Being a younger soft leader i have no doubt that it will back bud in the voids of the upper section .
Finished height of the tree is 600mm with a 35mm trunk , the ageing bark on the lower main trunk is something very unusual as it is very similar to a Desert Ash 
have deep fissures and coarse block bark on the aged trees. Cheers Alpineart