AusBonsai

I did most of my trees today with a couple of smaller trees to be done next weekend. I find that early to mid December works out to be a good time for Melbourne, although i know that in other parts of the country this timing has to be adjusted.

Have others de-candled yet?

I only have one pine... Just seeing how it goes for a while before I get more... I did mine about a week ago... But I'm only new to pines so it's a bit of an experiment!!

One of the trees i did. I am looking forward to wiring this tree this winter and the next 3-5 years of refinement.
After de-candling and removing a couple of branches.

Yes did that about a month ago. Now I am looking at pulling needles. I test my pines every week by pulling a few needles and when they come away easily without pulling off the bud, then its time to remove 50% of the pine needles from the tree.

Some people here may disagree with my timing, but I have been doing this for over two decades with pleasing results.

Hi Joe,

I did my black and red pines 2 to 3 weeks ago here in Canberra.

All except one tree at the collection was also done about 3 weeks ago. One black pine had a slightly weaker lowest branch so we did it about 2 weeks ago and the rest of the tree on Friday. The lowest weak branch has already started budding so by doing the rest of the tree later it should get a good headstart.

Grant

For me it depends on the species and on the individual tree. I decandled the last of my pines, a JBP, only yesterday, while the Scots pines were done about 4 - 6 weeks ago, depending on the trees. Can't remember what I did with the rest, I just do the work when it seems time to do it. Probably all wrong! The results ain't too bad, though.

Lisa

Grant, Sounds like the staggered de-candling on the weak branched tree will do the trick. I wou ld have thought that you Canberra guys would be doing their pruning after us but then i guess you have harsher winters and maybe even shorter seasons. Sydney must be sometime around late Dec or early Jan i am guessing?

Brian, what sort of length do you get on the needles that come out with the seccond flush? I grow medium and small sized trees so i have found thst in order to get the needle length i want i have to prune around now. I am always looking to improve my methods so i would be interested in your results.

LLK wrote:For me it depends on the species and on the individual tree. I decandled the last of my pines, a JBP, only yesterday, while the Scots pines were done about 4 - 6 weeks ago, depending on the trees. Can't remember what I did with the rest, I just do the work when it seems time to do it. Probably all wrong! The results ain't too bad, though.

Lisa

Hi Lisa, i only grow radiata, Japanese black and Japanese red pines. I am still trying to get my head around growing the radiatas. As for scotts pines mugos etc i am not really familliar with when and even if you should de-candle them. i have heard people treat them more like White pines and prune rather than de-candle.

Joe

Hi Jow, finished all my Blacks ,Radiatas and Reds last week,as for my Scotts and Mugos i pruned and thinned them all yesterday.Hope to prune my Junipers today.
Cheers John m

Jow wrote:

LLK wrote:For me it depends on the species and on the individual tree. I decandled the last of my pines, a JBP, only yesterday, while the Scots pines were done about 4 - 6 weeks ago, depending on the trees. Can't remember what I did with the rest, I just do the work when it seems time to do it. Probably all wrong! The results ain't too bad, though.

Lisa

Hi Lisa, i only grow radiata, Japanese black and Japanese red pines. I am still trying to get my head around growing the radiatas. As for scotts pines mugos etc i am not really familliar with when and even if you should de-candle them. i have heard people treat them more like White pines and prune rather than de-candle.

Joe

Hi Joe,

I decandled a mugo just yesterday and going by last years results it can be done quite OK; although all the europeans don't tend to do it at all; an even shorter and less hot summer I imagine is the reason.

viewtopic.php?f=131&t=6886&hilit=Mugo&start=30 Look at the last post and you will see the results from last year.


Grant

Jow wrote:Grant, Sounds like the staggered de-candling on the weak branched tree will do the trick. I wou ld have thought that you Canberra guys would be doing their pruning after us but then i guess you have harsher winters and maybe even shorter seasons. Sydney must be sometime around late Dec or early Jan i am guessing?

Brian, what sort of length do you get on the needles that come out with the seccond flush? I grow medium and small sized trees so i have found thst in order to get the needle length i want i have to prune around now. I am always looking to improve my methods so i would be interested in your results.

I have found if I go later than you do I only get buds and no new candles by autumn.

Grant

Jow wrote:...I would have thought that you Canberra guys would be doing their pruning after us but then i guess you have harsher winters and maybe even shorter seasons...

Depending on tree size, in Canberra early Dec to about now is the time that I have decandled. I pushed a couple this year to see if I can get them a little shorter, but they are still in training.

I think the early Autumn cooling means that we need to decandle a little earlier than the coastal cities.

This coming week for me... Weather has been too silly to work on trees this week

Ummmm errrr ahhhhhhh, that's what our pollies say when they are in the poop
I think the amount of non words per question determines the answer, in this case 'no'.

Reds last week
Blacks today
Mini blacks next week