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Everyone thinks moss and removes it quickly. I did once, but a friend of mine, Ron Povey scalded me for doing it.
Thinking back to when I lived in tas, you can see lichen on nearly every forest tree over 30 odd years.

Asus101 wrote:Everyone thinks moss and removes it quickly. I did once, but a friend of mine, Ron Povey scalded me for doing it.
Thinking back to when I lived in tas, you can see lichen on nearly every forest tree over 30 odd years.

It grows like a weed up hear on most trees some a completely covered if growing in the undergrowth ,good to know i'll use it to my advantage .Cheers

A tree after my own heart. I like em big to. You might need to have a couple of more children, preferably boys, to help out when it comes around to repotting time.

alpineart wrote:

Asus101 wrote:Everyone thinks moss and removes it quickly. I did once, but a friend of mine, Ron Povey scalded me for doing it.
Thinking back to when I lived in tas, you can see lichen on nearly every forest tree over 30 odd years.

It grows like a weed up hear on most trees some a completely covered if growing in the undergrowth ,good to know i'll use it to my advantage .Cheers

Remove bits if they over bear the trunk and hide the bark too much, but always keep some.

bodhidharma wrote:A tree after my own heart. I like em big to. You might need to have a couple of more children, preferably boys, to help out when it comes around to repotting time.

Bugger repotting i MIGHT sell it to some other Mad Man or cut the side out of the box trim and slap another sheet of ply on .I was thinking as i do sometimes , i need a travelling gantry , lift ,trim and drop . Cheers

just curious but whats the other tree you have going in the grow box in the back ground of the pic of your plum trunk???????
is it a maple?

jamie111 wrote:just curious but whats the other tree you have going in the grow box in the back ground of the pic of your plum trunk???????
is it a maple?

Hi Jamie yes mate it a Japanese Maple $16.95 ON EBAY .Its on a post urban yamadori maple a couple of weeks back .Its going to harvest about 16 pre trained bonsai's and then it will get the chop to a 2 man trunk .Cheers

alpineart wrote:

bodhidharma wrote:A tree after my own heart. I like em big to. You might need to have a couple of more children, preferably boys, to help out when it comes around to repotting time.

Bugger repotting i MIGHT sell it to some other Mad Man or cut the side out of the box trim and slap another sheet of ply on .I was thinking as i do sometimes , i need a travelling gantry , lift ,trim and drop . Cheers

Engine hoist...

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Bloody good idea now why didnt i think of that .Cheers

We have some amazing lichen growing on the back fence of our current rental. My wife snapped a few photos of it the other day:
Alien Moss
Creeping Over

alpineart wrote:

jamie111 wrote:just curious but whats the other tree you have going in the grow box in the back ground of the pic of your plum trunk???????
is it a maple?

Hi Jamie yes mate it a Japanese Maple $16.95 ON EBAY .Its on a post urban yamadori maple a couple of weeks back .Its going to harvest about 16 pre trained bonsai's and then it will get the chop to a 2 man trunk .Cheers

mate that is a great price. i take it was pick up only??

mate that is a great price. i take it was pick up only??[/quote

Yes , picked up by and excavator that was on site that morning . Travelled 700klm round trip to bring her home ,1 Pre trainer would be worth that .Cheers

Hey Alpine, what became of this monster did it survive any updates love to see some picks if you were able to develop some branches since
Cheers, Ryan

Hi cre8ivbonsai , mate it went wheels up quite a while ago .I had a large amount of curl grubs in the soil and garden beds and by the time i found them the damage was done .I have hung onto the trunk as a garden ornament . It would be nice to have another one .Maybe the next big storm might just produce a specimen worthy of the work it takes , until then i will have to be happy with little 100mm trunks .Cheers Alpine

ahh, what shame, oh well onto the next project ... thanks