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Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: August 15th, 2010, 9:20 am
by Jake
thats one really nice looking tree! i love the jin. the trunk has great flow aswell!
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: August 20th, 2010, 2:24 pm
by Grant Bowie
dayne wrote:looks real good guys reminds me of a dragon clinging on to the soil for some reason very nice
Yes the roots are very reminiscent of the hind legs of a dragon; coiled with lots of tension and ready to pounce.
I could call it "Leaping Dragon",
Grant
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: August 20th, 2010, 5:21 pm
by dayne
sounds like a good name to me
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 3:16 pm
by Grant Bowie
Hi all,
I did manage to get a moon pot for this tree when I was down in melbourne recently.
The tree is looking like it is starting to come out of dormancy and so far it has not turned a hair at all the work it has had done on it. Other than a small amount of "mechanical or handling damage" to a few needles it looks 100%.
Really looking forward to the spring growth fleshing it out a bit.
Grant
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 4:50 pm
by Levuccio
This is a fantastic post. Wish there were more posts like that here. Good job!
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 30th, 2010, 4:52 pm
by Grant Bowie
Hi all,
just letting you know that my Mugo has come through all its work without a hair out of place.
All the buds have opened nicely, been snapped back and not one branchlet or bud failed despite the huge manhandling it got over quite an extended period.
I am setting up for a photo now.
grant
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 30th, 2010, 5:11 pm
by Grant Bowie
Here it is.
Mugo pine 30th October 2010.JPG
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 30th, 2010, 5:19 pm
by Matthew
Nice Grant, real nice
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 30th, 2010, 5:44 pm
by Grant Bowie
Cresent pot for mugo pine.JPG
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 30th, 2010, 6:06 pm
by Jamie
grant
perfect! keen to see it in there
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 30th, 2010, 11:52 pm
by Taffy
Grant, that pot is awesome! Where did it come from?
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 31st, 2010, 7:08 am
by Grant Bowie
Tman wrote:Grant, that pot is awesome! Where did it come from?
I bought the pot second hand from John M in Melbourne.
It is made by a potter south of Melbourne.
Grant
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 31st, 2010, 8:23 am
by kcpoole
When are you going to repot? Next year?
Ken
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 31st, 2010, 8:27 am
by Jarrod
Looking good Grant. Nice and healthy. I gave spent a while looking at the pic, and have noticed a very defined horizontal line running across the bottom of the foliage and small straight section of trunk. Once I saw it my eye travelled back and forth several times and it was all I could focus on. A little tilt to the left and the foliage brought down on the right would remove that visual effect?
Still envious of the old pines your playing with.
Re: Overhaul of a 59 year old Mugo Pine.
Posted: October 31st, 2010, 12:40 pm
by Grant Bowie
kcpoole wrote:When are you going to repot? Next year?
Ken
Hi ken,
I will either repot it in early autumn (here April or late March once the heat has gone but early enough for some root growth before winter) or leav it till about November next year( before the heat of summer starts). The windows for repotting here are a lot narrower than in Sydney.
Grant