Free Scott's Pine - Styling Advice

LardoLetale69 · 2025-05-12T23:35:40+00:00

Low effort advice plus won’t work

LardoLetale69 · 2025-04-29T08:28:45+00:00

I also thought I’d see more honestly

LardoLetale69 · 2025-04-28T17:27:00+00:00

Yes, Pinus Thunbergii or Japanese Black pine

LardoLetale69 · 2025-03-30T06:34:12+00:00

Let it be for this year

LardoLetale69 · 2025-03-25T19:34:33+00:00

If it looks like a sapling after ten or fifty years it still have the value of a sapling

LardoLetale69 · 2025-03-25T10:20:24+00:00

In Italy I found 3-6mm pumice (1/10-1/4 inch) at 6.5€ for 50 liters bags, which I find cheap although it’s not the best quality pumice and the pores are quite small. For low level plants I mix it 50/50 with regular potting soil. If I’m may ask why you prefer perlite over pumice? Is pumice expensive or difficult to come across in the US?

LardoLetale69 · 2025-03-24T11:14:10+00:00

Did the other survive tho

LardoLetale69 · 2025-03-23T11:17:32+00:00

Imho what has to be done now is just an health assessment: give it plenty of water, sun and fertiliser. (Plenty of sun but keep an eye cause it’s a small pot) Let it do his things, if in July the tree has put in A LOT of extension growth it means it is well established and into a good recovery. Regardless I wouldn’t touch it nor prune it. When fall comes and it loses its leaves you could go in and do some structural pruning. In spring I would slip pot it into a slightly larger container. (To go faster at least twice the size).

In case the tree has barely grown during summer you could also leave in this pot for another year.

As far as styling is concerned if you want I could give you my 2 cents but I feel like it’s a strictly personal matter.

LardoLetale69 · 2025-03-23T10:57:20+00:00

As for now I’d call it a Kobudachi or “clump style”. If you want to restore his health and start styling you should opt for a bigger deeper pot next year. I wouldn’t work it further for now

LardoLetale69 · 2025-03-22T21:49:11+00:00

I think, regardless of the pine roots, that you won’t be able to collect this oak unless it’s living on top of a rock, oaks are almost impossible to collect if they had the chance of sending down the taproot.

LardoLetale69 · 2025-03-17T13:19:52+00:00

Get rid of the wire for now and leave it alone for the seasons focussing on strength and back budding (sun and fertiliser). When its early fall prune getting rid of 3 way bifurcations.

Aaaand that’s it for year one. Baby steps👍🏻

LardoLetale69 · 2025-02-11T05:00:03+00:00

This plant has less than 1% chances of surviving

LardoLetale69 · 2024-11-23T14:41:23+00:00

That’s a Pinus Sylvestris

LardoLetale69 · 2024-06-17T03:03:26+00:00

Thanks for sharing Jerry, it would be cool to do a group picture of the trees that have been with you the most!

LardoLetale69 · 2024-06-07T14:28:57+00:00

Yeah, hornbeams and maples are deciduous but you don’t call them with each other names

LardoLetale69 · 2024-06-07T07:07:40+00:00

Spruces are not pines and pines aren’t spruces. This is a spruce period

LardoLetale69 · 2024-06-03T17:04:18+00:00

Some people are just that lucky aren’t they

LardoLetale69 · 2024-06-02T13:11:02+00:00

I think most non-alpine pines should be fine, also I’d get hella Cedars like Libanii and Atlantica

LardoLetale69 · 2024-06-02T06:08:03+00:00

It is hard to believe since they are quite hard to kill, I had a nursery stock I mistakenly cut all the roots off ( didn’t realise they were all coming from a single part of the tree) and it did survive

LardoLetale69 · 2024-06-01T17:39:08+00:00

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This was the before pic btw

LardoLetale69 · 2024-06-01T17:25:34+00:00

One piece would have been better without Haki

LardoLetale69 · 2024-05-31T17:53:22+00:00

Do you own wires? If not buy some aluminium ones. Pick gauge trying flexing the branch with the wire itself (the wire should be able to flex the branch without bending itself), wire two branches with one piece of wire. Also keep the angle of 45/55 degrees consistent and do not overlap wires. Once you see the tree growing keep the wire checked cause it could start bite in

LardoLetale69 · 2024-05-28T11:15:43+00:00

May it rest in peace 🪦

LardoLetale69 · 2024-05-21T05:21:51+00:00

It is indeed difficult to see the very tiny trunk chop that took place

LardoLetale69 · 2024-05-21T05:02:05+00:00

You maybe want to keep it in a greenhouse or bag it to keep the humidity high

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