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20 year-old black pines – before and after

February 11, 2014 by Jonas Dupuich

Having just appeared in BIB’s 15th annual exhibit, the small black pine below was due for a tune up. Daisaku Nomoto made a surprising number of cuts and then reset the remaining branches. When he was finished, I repotted the tree into a more suitable container for the growing season.

Black pine

Shohin black pine

Black pine

After cutback and adjusting the branches

The overall goal is to make the silhouette more compact over time.

I also had a chance to clean up my young corkbark pine. Here’s the old front.

Corkbark black pine

Corkbark black pine

And here’s the new front.

Corkbark black pine

New front

Before repotting, Nomoto and I removed unnecessary branches and then I plucked needles from the stronger shoots. Here’s the result of the work.

Corkbark black pine

After removing needles and repotting

I’m planning to decandle the tree this year to see how it comes out – more news on that this spring.

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  1. Brian VF says

    February 12, 2014 at 5:38 am

    Great movement on that corker…any idea on the cultivar?

  2. Jonas Dupuich says

    February 12, 2014 at 11:24 pm

    Hi Brian – I don’t know the cultivar, would be interested to hear if anyone had a better idea about this.

  3. Mike Arakaki says

    February 13, 2014 at 6:24 pm

    Jonas,
    I am jet-lagged and back in Hawaii now. I hope you had a great tour in Kanagawa. It was great meeting you and keep up the good work with all these “free” posts. I hope to run into you again real soon. Take care!

  4. brendenstudio says

    February 13, 2014 at 10:52 pm

    It was great meeting you in Japan, Jonas! Keep up the good work 😉

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