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Peter W what you think now???

looking good ant!

something like this takes a little bit of courage as originally the tree didnt look like it was worth layering,now its fattened up and you got two possibly great trees!
the parent has some nice size for a shohin or a bit bigger and the layer has some nice early movement! i think your going to get them to be corkers!


nice im still waiting on finding the right JBP im gonna take the plunge!!!

jamie

ps. gonna need some walkthrough guidance from you pine gurus too

Bonsai's in the back seat of my caddilac. Let me take you there, yeah yeah.

Courage wont get you anywhere if you cant use your noodle!!!

a bit of smart no guts no glory goes a long way pal!

Hey ant nice job

what is the diameter of the section you layered?

and why did you not resise the fotos? 500K+ is too big i reckon Takes too long to load

Ken

thanks ken you're an inspiration here! 25mm wide / diameter. Sorry pics are the same as usual, just that it was still dark this morning and flash was used. so thats the probable cause.

That looks like good practice for putting a new set of roots on JBP stock you buy Antonio Nice work!

Bretts wrote:That looks like good practice for putting a new set of roots on JBP stock you buy Antonio Nice work!

The jbp's i have now are just practice for the great seedlings i am growing.

12 months after severance and a rechanneling of the energy. Proof is in the pudding, you can airlayer and style a jbp section at the same time... Q) Will it make a good tree as it is ??? A) NOOOOOOOOOOOO !!! Come spring, in the ground !!! :hooray

Here also is the Donor. It was repotted same time as the layer was severed. Today it also got a rechanneling of energy, preliminary styling and opening up the options!

Hi Antonio,

Absolutely stunning: the air-layering! I cannot believe I actually missed it last year!

The two pines you have are certainly of great potential. Please keep us up to date with the development of this one.

Cheers.

Thanks Viet, after the bad news of your layer i thought it time to get on with mine and attempt to put a smile on ya dial. Glad i did!

Hi Antonio, thats great work. Are you going to field grow both trees ?
Craigw

Looking nice and healthy...I think there is a big tip there for anyone wanting to layer JBP???

craigw60 wrote:Hi Antonio, thats great work. Are you going to field grow both trees ?
Craigw

Hello mate; Thanks for that. The doner will be developed as is into a small chuhin, for my design just tips over the shohin mark. It already has an impressive 90mm base, which will make a 3:1 image in the end, possibly 2.5:1 when the nebari is fully developed. The reason i purchased this stock is because i felt it didn't need to go in the ground for the design i had in mind, just needed to invest the next 10 yrs refining it, however wasted 1 layering it but learnt alot from it. The layer as stated is going in the ground in Spring.