Japanese Black Pine

[wattynine]

When I was a member of the Mackay Bonsai Society, one of the members had something very unique happen to her.
She bought a JBP from Bunnings, which developed a cone, and to her and our very amazement it seeded into the pot the tree was growing in.
Several tree were developed from this, of the two that were given to me this is the sole survivor and about three years old.
It was a small pot for the first two years and the potted up into this for a long term project, just some initial twists and bends as I have heard that high summer is not a time to do too much harsh bending (?). Again it has progressed very well in the new pot environment.
Didn't actually get a virgin shot of the tree before I wired it and then put it's first little bend, then remembering, grabbed the camera

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back to the junk pile, see ya in ten years

[Boics]

Vote #1 for more bends!

[longd_au]

I agree with Boic, little bends like that will just disappear when the trunk thickens.

[johnlongua]

Your picture is very pretty I really like it.

[wattynine]

RIP JBP.
I had this in a large tub for the long term purpose of growing this tree, again a decline in the needle strength and colour caused me to have to look at the roots.
The medium was quite wet and unusually it was just potting mix, I have no excuse for this or reason apart from that when I did it I had no diatomite or scoria and unusually these were both absent from the mix and yet the photo shows both of these present at the top of the mix. The mix based on my watering system was quite wet, perhaps this was a long term problem as I am absent for periods of time and it could have been a problem that had developed and I had missed it. Perhaps the potting mix had collapsed and lost its capacity to hold the correct mix of air and water. This was sitting at ground level.
All of the are assumptions, makes no difference, the tree is dead. Shame.
Watty