I shall call him chubby

[pebble]

As the great man chubby checker once said. “Come on let twist again, like we did last summer, let twist again, like we did last year” haha [FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY]

So today I thought I would.
I went and got my self a stick in a pot and got twisting



Since I got my self some raffia, I wanted to try it out and put some big bends in this little Sargent juniper


I reduced the size of this little guy by about 2/3rds, I haven’t wired any of the other branches yet or trimmed it to much, not exactly how I was imagining it but we will see if it survives and then look at it again.




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[Steve B]

Genius use of the Coopers stubby. A height scale AND a time reference in a single entity!

Wee Chubby looks like he’s enjoying some nice tight bend compression to get to such a small fraction of his original height. Might be worth taking a shot from the top looking down if it’s not pushing the friendship. Just to record how tight the bends are in two dimensions maybe?

Nice start on a new project! Now it’s down to the eternal test of patience - letting nature do its thing without getting in the way too much

[pebble]

You forgot the most important part Steve....
The taste [WINKING FACE]

Ask and you shall receive


Put chubby up with the other juni’s





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[shibui]

While the twisted trunk is preferable to the straight one it appears to just be a gentle corkscrew bend at the moment.

I have done lots of these now and find the hardest thing is to make really natural (random) bends I try to achieve bends of different degrees and in different directions interspersed with slightly straighter bits of various length. Some downward movement as well as side to side and upward also helps the wild feel.
Note that this is much easier to imagine and to say than to achieve

You have probably pushed this trunk to its limit today but you may find that after a week or so the cells have all relaxed and you can tighten some of the bends if you decide it needs some alterations

[pebble]

Thanks shibui, yeah wasn’t exactly what I imagined. I wanted the bent tighter and leaned over to one side.
Yeah maybe in the future if it survives I will have another go, so you think after a few weeks it will be ok to bend again.
Will give that a go


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[pebble]

Update on chubby

During the year unwrapped the tree and it sprung back a little.
Sat on the bench for most of the year but tonight wrapped and wired it up again and this is how it turned out

Changed it up a little, think it could be an interesting tree one day


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