Literati Juniper
Posted: December 17th, 2012, 1:55 pm
This is a tree that I picked up from a guys who was selling off his collection, sorry I don't have any before pictures, it was one of those times when inspiration just hit me after looking and looking at the tree.
When I purchased it the Juniper was an informal upright with a semi cascade branch coming from the lower part of the tree, it was in a square semi cascade pot.
As I had the tree on the turntable and spinning it slowly around looking at it from different angles, I decided that the best result would be a Literati.
Removing all of the branches from the bottom section of the tree was the start, then thinning out the other branching, I still think one branch needs to be removed but I will give it some time and see if my view changes, after wiring and setting the new branching in place I also set a new apex and added a Jin, again not 100% sure about the Jin.
A repot into a glazed drum pot and a good feed. I will give it a bit of time and see how it appears once it has developed the pads, guessing it will need a little more attention in several months, all in all I am pretty happy with the outcome considering what it was to start with.
When I purchased it the Juniper was an informal upright with a semi cascade branch coming from the lower part of the tree, it was in a square semi cascade pot.
As I had the tree on the turntable and spinning it slowly around looking at it from different angles, I decided that the best result would be a Literati.
Removing all of the branches from the bottom section of the tree was the start, then thinning out the other branching, I still think one branch needs to be removed but I will give it some time and see if my view changes, after wiring and setting the new branching in place I also set a new apex and added a Jin, again not 100% sure about the Jin.
A repot into a glazed drum pot and a good feed. I will give it a bit of time and see how it appears once it has developed the pads, guessing it will need a little more attention in several months, all in all I am pretty happy with the outcome considering what it was to start with.