Big red pine literati

[Edward Scissorhand]

This is a very very big Red pine. Sorry about the photo, my backyard is a jungle, will clean it up during winter. Plucked, trimmed and fertilised today 3rd April 2010.

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[Edward Scissorhand]

Beter view of trunk line.

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[Luke]

wow you have some amazing pines ed!!!! this one looks hypnotic! like smoke from the pipe of a wise old master, twisting and flowing in a gentle breeze! Will be great to see more detailed photos... looking forward!
luke

[Edward Scissorhand]

wow you have some amazing pines ed!!!! this one looks hypnotic! like smoke from the pipe of a wise old master, twisting and flowing in a gentle breeze! Will be great to see more detailed photos... looking forward!
luke

Thanx Luke, will definitely take more photos in the future.

Cheers Edward

[Mitchell]

Your not lieing about the yard, being a jungle are your.. !?

Great pines mate, very impressive!

[anttal63]

Would love to see this tree with a plain background when you get a chance please mate?

[Edward Scissorhand]

Would love to see this tree with a plain background when you get a chance please mate?

Thanx Ant, the tree is around 5 foot tall, at the moment I dont have a background big enough for the tree. But when I get the chance I will see whats at bunnings.

Cheers Ed

[Matthew]

very nice edward , i like your pines alot. your area reminds me of my old one untill i moved and expanded. just never seems to be enough room.............. Did your pines come from leon or from wade at cambewarra? again very nice

[Edward Scissorhand]

very nice edward , i like your pines alot. your area reminds me of my old one untill i moved and expanded. just never seems to be enough room.............. Did your pines come from leon or from wade at cambewarra? again very nice

Hi Noah, glad you enjoyed the pines. Yes alot of the smaller fat pines came from leongs ground grown stock which I bought from large plastic tubs between 3 and 6 years ago. I use to just go and check out leong's stuff and handpick some of the nicer ones. One of them is a very old koreshoff material like the 1951 big red literati pine, I think kenneth mentioned it was just old stock material from out the back. Anyway that was worked on by Kenneth dobel for a short period until the nursery closed its doors about 2 or 3 years ago. I acquired the tree off him when it closed and boy it was heavy. Kenneth had basically chopped the main trunk as it was a twi-trunk red pine initially, and was working on the second trunk. There was just a few bunches of foliage when I got it. But the lovely main trunk outline was kenneths work and was what attracted me. I was actually alittle disappointed that he didnt leave a longer piece of wood from the big main trunk for me to work a shari out of. He just left a small stubble. Anyway since I acquired it off him, Ive only concentrated on the health because I found out that the roots were in disappointing condition. The bulk of the roots were just full of old clay especially near the inner part of trunk, its like no-one properly repotted it for decades.I have a feeling in those days, they must have been scared off doing heavy rootwork because Ive noticed that alot of very old pre bonsai material still have clayish soil untouched for years on the inner parts near the trunk. I think they just sliced the outer bits and refilled it with bonsai soil. I did the branch wiring and at the moment concentraing on building up foliage bulk for its health. You know just to get the photosynthesis happening from the sun while I heavily feed the tree down below. Im taking my time to work on it slowly as Its always best to do alittle here and a little there rather than do everything at one go. I hope it will be a stunning tree in about a decades time.