AusBonsai

This was bought from Ledanta in 2004 as a stock plant. It made it into a PK pot in November 2011. This was my first Casuarina, so It has been a learning experience. For the amount of mistakes I have made it is coming along, although some would say it is not a good representation of Casuarina, more like a pine.

Peter

Hi Peter

Tree look very nice look forward to seeing it developover the next few years

Regard's

The Hacker

Great tree Peter.

Pine-like or not it has a big future.

Good to see that it has some nice bark forming too.

That's one nice tree man congrats

Looks great nice movement love the pot .

Very cool tree i like it been seeing alot of nice trees on here lately

Hi Peter, thats a great tree, I think this genus is much under used here in Australia. I wonder how long it took for the bark to start cracking ?
Craigw

Craig,

The cracked bark was from the base to about 50mm when bought. The rest has developed since then. I have over the years let a sacrificial branch grow to increase the trunk size and thus the older bark.

Peter

Hi Peter.

Beautiful tree.
can you share what you have learned with this species .
How do you shorten the needles. simply cut them shorter ?
And how will you continue to develope foliage and refine this tree in the future . ?

I also think the tree appearance would benefit by trying to build more taper into the lower branches.
Just a constructive thought that could help improve the tree.
Thanks for posting I can only hope to create something as good as this in the future .

Paul,

In the past I have trimmed this tree with scissors but lately I have been using my hands to to reduce the length of the needles.
As this Casuarina throws back on old wood I will let some of the ones on the primary branches mature which will allow work on the tapper of these branches in the future.

Peter

Update,

Still working on developing the left side.I was hoping for some budding back on the trunk to fill an area about 2/3rds up the trunk.It rarely does bud back were you want so I will fill it an extended branch from the other side which will achieve the same affect.

Regards,

Peter