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I filled in 10 minutes at the Northern Suburbs Bonsai Club meeting last night styling this pine.
I had pre wired the tree and all I did was chop branches and roughly position the ones I had wired, the change was quite dramatic for only a few minutes.The tree was purchased at the Yarra Valley sale day as a mugho but I believe this to be an incorrect identification. The bark looks to me like sylvestris (scotts) and I think a grafted pine would be less likely to be mugho.........any thoughts?

Hi Gerard,
Not sure about it either ..., but there have been some mughos grafted on black pines and scotts before - it's a well done graft!
Who did you buy it from and I might be able to tell you with more certainty?!

Cheers, Rudi

JR_J wrote:Hi Gerard,
Not sure about it either ..., but there have been some mughos grafted on black pines and scotts before - it's a well done graft!
Who did you buy it from and I might be able to tell you with more certainty?!

Cheers, Rudi

Just inside the entrance on the left, he was selling mostly large conifers.

That's a lovely graceful tree. Sometimes it's hard to lose half a tree like that, but the design never looks good when one half is going off in the opposite direction to the other, for me. My only thought would be to jam the cut branch downwards quite soon, before it hardens, so that it doesn't stay on the same line as the main trunk, but going off in the opposite direction. If you get my drift.

Nice tree.

Gavin

Gerard wrote:

JR_J wrote:Hi Gerard,
Not sure about it either ..., but there have been some mughos grafted on black pines and scotts before - it's a well done graft!
Who did you buy it from and I might be able to tell you with more certainty?!

Cheers, Rudi

Just inside the entrance on the left, he was selling mostly large conifers.

Hi Gerard,
He's been a nursery man for many years (40+) and has been growing conifers all the time and if he sold it as a mugo it is a mugo - trust me!
He's got a large range of pines and is very good at grafting too.
Cheers, Rudi