Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Austrian black pine in development - part 2

In fall of 2005 it looked healtyh enough to start first major styling. The tree looks somewaht like a plucked chicken as we say. This is normal for an Asutrian black pine. Similar to ponderosa pines they look quite pathetic after first styling usually. But see what happened later!

1) after first styling in fall fo 2005
2) and 3) October 2007

In the future I hope for more backbudding to be able to shorten the long branches considerably.