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this one i purchased for $15 last year in may. no decandling, i am growing this one on.

Hi Antonio. They all look promising trees!
Penny.

$15.......so why do air layers! hehehe. couldnt help myself Ant.
Regards
Peter

PeterW wrote:$15.......so why do air layers! hehehe. couldnt help myself Ant.
Regards
Peter

your damn right pete and i do ask myself that. mind you the price was exceptional, i haven't come across that since.
you know i cant resist a challenge

mudlarkpottery wrote:Hi Antonio. They all look promising trees!
Penny.

penny thanks for the encouragement.

The only reason you would want to airlayer is if you start developing something worth the effort. Right now there isnt anything worth the effort on the top.
You have a good lower and mid area but nothing up top.

Looks like heaps of fun here Great find.

Asus101 wrote:The only reason you would want to airlayer is if you start developing something worth the effort. Right now there isnt anything worth the effort on the top.
You have a good lower and mid area but nothing up top.

And i thought you were the air layer king! Seems as though most of your posts are aimed at cuttings and or Layers. I dont know.....now i am just plain confused.

Peter

Nice tree Antonio, I would simply remove that leggy branch on the right after the first branch and you have a good start. Tilt to the right and wire. Great price.

Ash

PeterW wrote:

Asus101 wrote:The only reason you would want to airlayer is if you start developing something worth the effort. Right now there isnt anything worth the effort on the top.
You have a good lower and mid area but nothing up top.

And i thought you were the air layer king! Seems as though most of your posts are aimed at cuttings and or Layers. I dont know.....now i am just plain confused.

Peter

Never made an airlayer, but I know a lot about them.
When you look at starting a layer, you have to look at your stock. in this case ants pine has some good lower brnaches and movement. its got a nice trunk and it looks like its starting to bark.
The bad part is the top. Bark is juvenile, its untrained, not much taper, branches are high up.
Would you buy that top if it was in a bonsai pot at a nursery?
You need to look and decide if whats there has potential. personally I cant see anything to spend time on as a layer. Im sure if it was left on, given time you could train it to be a well deserving apex, but in this state, its nothing special to become a new tree.

oh if you where going to airlayer it anyway, save the money from buying the gear, and buy seeds, you'll have something better to show, by the time the layer is ready to do the same.

The $15 thing... that is why we keep building up our collection... then one day we ask ourselves: how on earth
this we hoard so many trees?

thanks for that ash! viet you're telln me!

time for an update; further reduction has taken place in winter. i chose not to air layer because of the delay in developement with the future tree. i have decided i will do a shohin with this one. depending on what pops this year, there will be drastic reduction again next year after the tree settles from this years bare rooting and repot.

Hey ant art 15 bucks a pop we wonder why we run out of room.If they get to much for you i know a good place to drop them of at

bodhidharma wrote:Hey ant art 15 bucks a pop we wonder why we run out of room.If they get to much for you i know a good place to drop them of at

i'll keep that in mind pal!