AusBonsai

ALL,
I have this JBP, it has a trunk about 35mm thick, the second section of trunk is very straight and has no taper,. The pine is about 380mm high, sorry i can't help with anymore pics, this is the only one i took, thoughts and ideas very much appreciated ,,

What would you do with it

gday craig
what i can see is the needles need to be thinned out a bit it looks a bit crowded and they seem to long,
and i would also repot it as it look a bit low on soil,shorten the left and right lower branches, and put
a bend half way up the upper trunk with no taper thats my
cheers dean

Have you considered a semi-cascade cut red and bend to yellow line

Cheers Dean , this tree is still in the same soil as when i bought the tree 5yrs ago and is well due for a repot. the needles are last springs new growth,i'm not concerned with needle size or anything yet, late summer i think i cut the branches back fairly hard and the result was a fair amount of new buds forming on the branches but ofcourse not the trunk where i would of liked them. I like your idea of a bend


Thanks Gerard , I have studied this tree for along time, the near straight section kills me every time i look at it , Your virt is a big improvement over the existing tree,thanks for taking the time however i would need to do something about the straight section,,,

edit; i take back what i said about the same soil, i have at times taken sections of old soil and replaced them with a new mix cotaining Akadama, but the main root ball has never been touched,
Thanks guys
anyone else

So here is what i ended up doing,
using again the drillout techinque , viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8745

Comments welcome,

Nice job Craig, I was walking around a nursery in Melbourne the other day and saw some black pines that had already been chopped at a low first branch and somewhat resembled your tree.... Maybe they are worth another look hrm.

Thanks Nick, definately worth a second look, it can't hurt to look at them with a different approach now

I should of said the height is now 250mm to the very top of the needles,

Craig

Nice work mate. Certainly a better future for this tree now.

Even though you've done a bit on the tree, I would still repot it now and give the roots some attention. Would still leave more root than normal to keep it growing well, and just let it grow pretty free for a while. Keeping extra branches as they grow to fatten the trunk would be recommended.

Love to keep up with this one.

Tony

I can't say that I expected that!

Hi Craig,

I imagine that if you grow the trunk bigger, the curves will get filled out, and you will have a rather nice twisted trunk?

Best regards.

Thanks Guys , Tony i was seriously considering a repot without much of a rootprune, so i might try and get that done fairly soon. I was actually thinking the same way Daiviet, growing in large container/ground and really trying to fatten the trunk over next few years , and as Tony mentioned leaving all the branches ,
Much appreciated Thanks


edit; I would also like to add a Thankyou to Anttal for inspiring me some time ago to get more serious with Pines Cheers mate