Pine Styling Advice please??
Posted: January 12th, 2009, 9:39 am
Hi all, please tell me what you think. I have a pine at home, been thinking for a long time to keep it as a regular tree but now not so sure. The last time I repotted I noticed that a root had died and rotted away, right at a perfect spot for a balanced nebari, leaving only one decent looking root from the trunk. So I planted it about 1 or 2 cm deeper then to try to encourage another root to start growing from that spot. This was about 18 to 24 months ago. I pulled it out of the dirt a little a month or 2 ago to check the progress and saw nothing growing from that spot. In fact the trunk was starting to curve toward the strong root and smoothing out under the soil level, not giving me any hope that a new root will grow.
So I was looking on line for some inspiration for my pine with one strong nebari that I could potentially grow mine into. I found this pic of a tree, I believe it to be one of Craig Cousins. And here are some pics of mine. Mine is about 30cm tall, trunk quite thin, about the fatness of a thumb, it is very healthy and back buds and grows relentlessly.
Do you think I could turn mine into something like Craig's? I have no clue as to the size and dimensions of his.
(I have planted it at this angle to gauge whether or not it would suit this slanting style exposing the root. The wired top was left there, I'm hedging my bets you see, it was done at the top like this a while ago, training a new top as there was an empty stop there. So incase I change my mind - again - i left it liek this.)
So I was looking on line for some inspiration for my pine with one strong nebari that I could potentially grow mine into. I found this pic of a tree, I believe it to be one of Craig Cousins. And here are some pics of mine. Mine is about 30cm tall, trunk quite thin, about the fatness of a thumb, it is very healthy and back buds and grows relentlessly.
Do you think I could turn mine into something like Craig's? I have no clue as to the size and dimensions of his.
(I have planted it at this angle to gauge whether or not it would suit this slanting style exposing the root. The wired top was left there, I'm hedging my bets you see, it was done at the top like this a while ago, training a new top as there was an empty stop there. So incase I change my mind - again - i left it liek this.)