What A Waste Of Time!
Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 6:28 pm
From a business point of view, wasting nearly 60 hours needle plucking, wiring, setting, and doing a few small carvings, on a tree like this is not a very good idea. From a hobbyist point of view, it is a great idea!
This tree has been let go for the last 2 years as it was quite badly affected by dothistroma. A couple of branches have been lost. It is in need of repotting (which will be done in spring), and was in dire need of wiring and resetting branches. After nearly 60 hours I have plucked all old needles and wired every single branch (which took most of this time) and done a preliminary set of branches, also some preliminary carving has been done to remove the old bark from the branches that have died back. The original low jin has been shortened back to a stub. The heavy looking right hand branch includes a back branch. Maybe a photo from above will help to illustrate this.
The tree is an Adcock's Dwarf White Pine dating back to 1965.
Obviously there is quite a bulge at the grafting point which will be address in time. I intend to use a combination of inducing scar tissue to "fatten" the skinny section, along with introducing a shari at this point to improve a natural taper.
Feel free to pick at it. It is a nice tree, just needs some attention after getting sick.
Cheers,
Leigh.
Before Shot After Shot
This tree has been let go for the last 2 years as it was quite badly affected by dothistroma. A couple of branches have been lost. It is in need of repotting (which will be done in spring), and was in dire need of wiring and resetting branches. After nearly 60 hours I have plucked all old needles and wired every single branch (which took most of this time) and done a preliminary set of branches, also some preliminary carving has been done to remove the old bark from the branches that have died back. The original low jin has been shortened back to a stub. The heavy looking right hand branch includes a back branch. Maybe a photo from above will help to illustrate this.
The tree is an Adcock's Dwarf White Pine dating back to 1965.
Obviously there is quite a bulge at the grafting point which will be address in time. I intend to use a combination of inducing scar tissue to "fatten" the skinny section, along with introducing a shari at this point to improve a natural taper.
Feel free to pick at it. It is a nice tree, just needs some attention after getting sick.
Cheers,
Leigh.
Before Shot After Shot