Decandling a shohin shadowy pine – Bonsai Tonight

I wrapped up my decandling for the year by doing away with the recent shoots from a tiny shadowy pine final weekend. I waited slightly dreary to decandle the tree as there’s a probability I’ll describe it in the upcoming Bay Island Bonsai describe and I didn’t need the recent needles to be too long.

Shohin shadowy pine – 19 years extinct

The tree tends to achieve out slightly evenly so I don’t enact powerful to steadiness the vigor beyond pulling additional needles from the discontinue branches. As that you just would possibly seek for from the picture below, most of the interior shoots are feeble – these I didn’t decandle.

Less piquant interior shoots

The honor between the long spring needles and short summer season needles from the previous year constantly cracks me up.

Apex decandled

Apex and front branches decandled

As the decandling work went hasty, I had time to rewire the tree. Here are the branches earlier than and after wiring.

Decandling total – earlier than wiring

After wiring – 6″

Despite the truth that the tree has the fundamental silhouette I’m shopping for, there are a total lot of branches I’d secure to diminish or grab away – refined modifications that will fortify the tree and abet protect it tiny – but because an describe looms ahead, I erred on the side of leaving the tree full and must wait to enact extra foremost cutback next February.

Uncommon what it looks secure to decandle a tiny pine? For folks that haven’t considered it, here’s a video from when I decandled the tree final year.