[Steven] Casuarina torulosa 2

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Re: [Steven] Casuarina torulosa 2

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This one needs a plucking but I ran out of time. It's just been freely growing since the last update.
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Re: [Steven] Casuarina torulosa 2

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G'day,

This guy was trimmed and repotted just last night. I was waiting for the weather to warm up and left it until the last minute.
There's still a lot of development to go. Foliage on the first branch needs to be developed, the rest of the branches need thinning then wiring for shape and the apex needs definition.
Like the juniper, when repotted it sat 5mm over the 250mm limit so I had to cut the apex back last night.

Height: 250mm
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Currently 250mm tall. Needs refinement of the foliage and some better depth.
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Love it! :Yes:

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Such a great little tree Steven.
Beautiful pot and trunk combination.
One of the fabulous things about growing bonsai is as you get old and decrepit your trees get old and beautiful
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In need of a trim and some wire. Not much to report...
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I've been plucking the long growth but still need to do some fine wiring to set secondary branches.
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Not bad for a $20 stock :yes:

Looking forward to seeing this one with the secondary branches set Steve. It looks like it's just going keep getting better and better.

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Great to see your progression posts on these Casuarina.
I took particular interest in the fact that this one, after looking like it kicked the bucket, return to life. I have a couple of forest plantings, one Black Sheoak and a recent planting of Torulosa. I had lost 2 out of my forest planting that didn't take and replaced them this year. Having planted the new Torulosa forest just recently, one in the back is starting to look like its also dying. I was quite disappointed as it was a really nice little specimen. Having read your post gives me hope and that perhaps, even though they look completely dead, they may return from the brink... Any ideas in helping recovery - I was thinking of just seasol'ing it often and avoid fertilizer until I see some movement..
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G'day Rob, how's yours looking now? Any signs of life?

I think I might need to withdraw this one as it is slightly over 250mm now and I don't think I'll be able to lower it without doing something really drastic :shock:
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beautiful mate :yes: can a drooping sheoak be chopped back to old bare wood?
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no idea wrote:beautiful mate :yes: can a drooping sheoak be chopped back to old bare wood?
Thanks. Yes it can. Best to do it at the beginning of a growing season and make sure it is healthy.

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Thanks Steven....it's got me buggered how you choose which needle/leaf/branch to pluck as their all one and the same :lost: :palm: they should be colour coded....green=leaf brown=branch :lol:
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no idea wrote:Thanks Steven....it's got me buggered how you choose which needle/leaf/branch to pluck as their all one and the same :lost: :palm: they should be colour coded....green=leaf brown=branch :lol:
All needles MAY become a branch, but they don't ALL become branches.

If you want to selectively choose which branches to keep/remove, the formation of a secondary needle on the main needle, means that main needle has become a branch.

Cut back the branches you don't want. But bare in mind that if you only leave one needle coming off of the branch, (and you are hoping this one needle becomes a branch itself), this is not a good idea, as it may not necessarily become a branch and this should be kept in mind when you are cutting back to form the desired structure.

In other words once a needle itself has needles coming off of it, then it has become a branch.
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Cheers Rory :tu: you and Steven have made my day....feeling confident now

Cheers guys
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