Phoenix grafted Savin Juniper #2

[alpineart]

Hi MoGanic , mate i would carve a few grooves into it and get some young Shimpaku moving around it . If you push plants into the area's in the trunk as ie "crevices" it has the potential to split the dead wood . That is one very nice piece of dead wood i can see this in 5-10 full of foliage and one heck of a natural statement to boot . Rip into it and please make a progression on it . The juniper in your topic could be mounted along with several smaller long leader type Shimps . Then your well on the way to a very nice Tanuki .A good clean up of the wood will reveal so many natural features you won't need 600 years to convince anyone .

Cheers Alpine

[matty-j]

alpine what do you do in the way of stabilising and holding the dead wood in position in the pot?
do you wire it in?

[MoGanic]

That little shimp won't be, but I have a good nursery with plenty of shimps which I'll hunt out. I was actually going to give this stump away at some point because the tree it came from was one I had very high hopes for before it died

Time to get out the little rotary and get to work! *checks time* - next week!

[alpineart]

alpine what do you do in the way of stabilising and holding the dead wood in position in the pot?
do you wire it in?

Hi Matty-j, mate i wire over the dead wood in both directions as high up as possible and around the base of the pot . I don't give a bugger what it looks like as long as it stable . After a season or two there is enough root mass to keep it stable even after a re-pot . I have seen plaster bases made on the trunks or even fiber glass however this takes up too much room and has to be removed at a later stage .These Tanuki are only trainers so anything goes as long as it does the job required . I'm sure there is plenty of material from the so called guru's that is never seen due to the unorthodox methods employed to get the required results . Mate i'm not the least bit offended if some-one with more or less experience points out faults in my methods , they work and i've had quite a few years to test them out . In most cases the base of the trunk is trimmed to balance itself the wire is added for security and peace of mind in a gale force wind .

Cheers Alpine

[alpineart]

Hi MoGanic , look forward to a topic on the progression from stump cleaning to the start of your trainers . Good luck with it .

Cheers Alpine

[MoGanic]

cheers mate!