Regarded as one of many extra identical outdated challenges with refining pines is steadiness. Final summer I wrote a number of red pine forest with uneven enhance (peep “Getting the steadiness exact“). To toughen the steadiness between trees, I decandled the identical outdated trees early and the solid trees later.
Right here’s how the pine looked last spring sooner than decandling.
April 2015 – the trees on the staunch are solid
At decandling time, I plucked extra needles from the solid trees to lower their vigor.
June 2015 – the stronger trees are left with fewer needles
How did this turn out? Right here’s the neighborhood planting in August.
August 2015 – the summer enhance is largely filled in
And here it’s in January.
January 2016 – steadiness is staunch
The improved steadiness made uncover prep straightforward.
Red pine forest as shown at Bay Island Bonsai’s 17th annual uncover
I ask further adjustments will doubtless be well-known to fabricate even enhance again this year – and if that’s the case, I’ll repeat last year’s formulation and peep what comes this descend.
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