JBP Healthy enough to start work?

[Bretts]

Here is Grants thread on this technique. I thought he had one with scetches as well but can't sem to find that ?
viewtopic.php?f=104&t=2335

[Dario]

Thanks for the link Bretts!
Dario.

[Bretts]

Found the fused root parrotia that I got of Don. It is the bottom half of my air layer I put in the shohin comp.
The pic I have is in the infamous nebari thread
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3872
Also at the top of the second page of this thread you will find another link for Grants base fusing technique with sketches

[The Hacker]

Hi Bretts

Just been looking through the pine's & Juniper's & came across this JBP of your's & was wondering how it was porgressing after all the work you have put in2 it & if you had decided on what style you are going to make it in2

Regard's

The Hacker

[Bretts]

Hi Hacker,
It is going pretty good. I was looking forward to a good styling session with it next season as well as a bonsai pot but I am starting to wonder if another year in this pot would do it better

I decandled this in December but as I was only working for better budding I decided to keep fertilising against what is normally recommended. Not really sure if that was a good idea but it does not seem to have hurt

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Thanks for asking as it was another of my trees due for weeding

Oh and I am using this tree for my inspiration.

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[The Hacker]

Hi Bretts

Sound's good maybe if you put it in the open ground if you had the space & gave it a good feed for 2 year's & give it a good trim so you can force it to back bud it will thicken up & give you more to work with & it would develope a lot quicker it look's like a very nice tree now but you no bonsai it take's time & if your got some then mayb it's an idea,

Regard's

The Hacker

[Bretts]

Most of the branches are there now Hacker. It will be time to do some more styling next year.

I don't like putting pines in the ground here as it is a very clay soil. I grow all mine in pots right from the seed. JBP climatise well to pot culture when you give them all they need.

[bodhidharma]

Oh and I am using this tree for my inspiration.

I love that tree for inspiration. If you can do that in this lifetime Bretts, more power to you.

[Bretts]

I will start off with the same pot and see what happens from there

[bodhidharma]

I think you missed your vocation, you should be doing stand up.

[Tiny trees]

Oh and I am using this tree for my inspiration.

I love that tree for inspiration. If you can do that in this lifetime Bretts, more power to you.

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[treeman]

Just a quick observation Bretts ( not sure if anyone already mentioned ). You mentioned during your first repotting that you brought the roots back to the original field soil from Ray's. I think that its important that this original field soil is eventially completely removed or it will become a source of trouble in the future (rot). It may be the reason why it's sometimes hard to get good colour in the tree.

[Bretts]

Think that is a little bit of a misunderstanding Treeman. What I took it back to at the beginning was Ray's original potting soil. Not field soil.

Since then it has gone through two (or 3) repottings which has from memory replaced all the soil.

I reckon it was the sphagnum peat in this mix that took a little longer to dry out that was the issue. Now that the tree is more established it doesn't seem to be much of an issue any more. That is why I was thinking of giving it another year in this pot now.
I will slao keep the fert up over Winter.

Thanks though I will try to remember to give the base an extra good look for any clay left just in case I have missed some.

[Tiny trees]

It looked now like did it in March 2010..only greener.

[Bretts]

Looks can be deceiving TT it now has many more inner buds.