Needle Juniper pot plant / Trainer

[alpineart]

I thought i had better do something with this

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,It cost me $2 at a market about 3 years ago .Not well kept or watered and spent most of it time filed on the ground

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after being blown of the rack continually . I must have purchased it for the bend in the trunk , because that's all its got going for it . After a quick look and 3 simple cuts later

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Its on its way

[alpineart]

I cranked some heavy electrical wire on the lower branches and trunk and maintained the same movement to the apex

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, then whipped the smaller branches into line with some stripped copper wire .

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A slip pot into a recycled meat tray / trainer tray and its all over red rover for this trainer

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. Not too bad for a 1 hour task , a lot quicker if your fit and mobile .There is a little bit of reverse taper in the base but because i didn't trim the roots it should grow out .

Cheers Alpineart

[Craig]

Nice work Alpine, this'll make a good little tree , i'm still trying to get over the fact you have 2000 trees to play with,

[bodhidharma]

Nice work Alpine, this'll make a good little tree , i'm still trying to get over the fact you have 2000 trees to play with,

Nice work Alpine, and i see the trees are getting smaller. Unfortunately Craig, all those trees have to be watered EVERY DAY

[alpineart]

Hi Craig ,i lost about 300 maples due to the early Spring and more frosts on top of the new growth freeze dried them . Now i sold 100's of whip and trainers but now i have got another 200 plus mini crab apples and Hornbeams to plant out Think i might have around 1999 left but it keeps growing ,you layer here , another find there , thats how i loose these plants for a season or two , cant see the plants for the leaves .Mother nature probably done me a favour with the frosts then she gave me a challenge with more seedlings .It a vicious circle ,on top of that i need to plant out the Yamadori pines and the 50 odd natives i have left before they too die due to lack of water .Way too hard to look after in pots with a few injuries and its going to be a long recovery and a hot summer

Cheers Alpine

[alpineart]

Hi Bodhi, that watering capers got whiskers on it . I have set 200m of irrigation for the terraces and its a useless as a clam full of cold water .So its into the ground they go .Cheers Alpine

[Craig]

and its a useless as a clam full of cold water