J.B.P...Semi-cascade

[bodhidharma]

I am actually making plans to bring the cascade trunk closer to the main trunk and put it into this pot. What do people think

[Tony Bebb]

Really like what you have done with this tree Bodhi. Great improvement mate

Which photo is your front

Tony

[bodhidharma]

Which photo is your front

I think the third one Tony. I have added to the thread as i want to keep changing the tree and my plans are LARGE.

[jarryd]

love it mate! it has come a long way

[Mojo Moyogi]

Great result Bodhi, as they others have said a huge improvement from the earlier pics, a lot more harmony between tree and pot too. Would you consider removing the 1st branch and going for more of a literati style cascade? What I really like about this JBP is the movement in the 1st half of the trunk especially and the character of the bark as well, I can't help but think that the branch in question is going to conceal those attributes in the future.

Cheers,
Mojo

[bodhidharma]

Would you consider removing the 1st branch and going for more of a literati style cascade?

AAgghhh..I dont like it when suggestions are made and they are good ones I will look long and hard at it Moj and consider it fully before branch cutters come out.

[Mojo Moyogi]

Would you consider removing the 1st branch and going for more of a literati style cascade?

AAgghhh..I dont like it when suggestions are made and they are good ones

Oh don't worry Bodhi, I seldom do it twice in a row and rarely more than once in a blue moon

Cheers,
Mojo

[GavinG]

Very meaty indeed... If you put it up, Bodhi, we're a'gonna think about it. (grinding noises)

It's a very fine trunk, with strong and unexpected angles, but at least from the photos I can only really see what it does in the first photo, so that would be the front for me. In the round, of course, it may all be much clearer.

I'd think about cutting the back branch right in the middle, to make a little air between the middle and the top, like there is between the bottom and the middle. And probably keep the front branch on the right, because it ties the foliage mass in to the base of the tree. It could lose the going-up branchlets.

For mine, the pale blue is too delicate. The colour and style of the pot it's in suit it, but it might fly a little better in a pot that's not as deep. When you get to that stage.

Please keep posting it - I want to see how it develops over the next, say, 150 years.

Gavin

[Gerard]

Nice job Bodhi,
Your tree has come up beutifully with the clean out, I am now also inspired to tidy up some pines.
Sorry but the new pot you have proposed does not work for me

[Brian]

Traditionally, pines are planted in unglazed pots. However its your tree and you can do whatever looks good to you.

Nice tree by the way, you are a rising star.

[Mojo Moyogi]

Bodhi, I didn't see your proposed pot earlier, I'm not much of a fan of it either. Also, I just assumed that the first pic was your proposed front when I commented about losing the first branch. I like both fronts as it turns out.

For some reason I straight away thought if this tree when I first saw the changes you had made to yours:

cascadepine1_1680.jpg

It's not that dissimilar, yes a whole lot better (at the moment anyway ), but maybe a design like that could work for your JBP, and the unglazed square pot works realy well, don't you think.

Cheers,
Mojo

[bodhidharma]

but maybe a design like that could work for your JBP, and the unglazed square pot works realy well, don't you think.

The pot would be perfect, i love it. The tree is wonderful in its own right and i could head in that direction but i have a slightly different vision.

[Bretts]

Looking great Bodi.
God forbid but I agree with Mojo. If it where mine I think I would lose some branches and add some more movement to the ones that are left.

[Luke308]

Great result Bodhi, as they others have said a huge improvement from the earlier pics, a lot more harmony between tree and pot too. Would you consider removing the 1st branch and going for more of a literati style cascade? What I really like about this JBP is the movement in the 1st half of the trunk especially and the character of the bark as well, I can't help but think that the branch in question is going to conceal those attributes in the future.

Cheers,
Mojo

I have to second that, I love the trunk movement, and in both you first picture and2rd picture from today the trunk is obscured in one way or another. If you go with your possible viewing front (3rd pic) could you move the first branch to allow more of the trunk to be seen without having to remove the branch? I think the first pic would be a better angle to view that great trunk from though Although I have not seen this tree in the bark to make a proper judgment Either way, I love what you have done with this tree, I am highly jealous, and hope to have something half as good in my collection in the years to come.

[Mojo Moyogi]

God forbid but I agree with Mojo.

Another sign that the Mayans have it right, that 2012 is the end of us all?

Cheers,
Mojo