Thanks for the feedback, I too feel this way and have had the same vision of Ryan which I did my best impression of at the club when I first started the styling.
I know I have left way too much foliage but at Nordmann Fir are fairly slow growing and I have no experience with them so I took some caution. There is also no budding really to reduce back to at this stage so watch this space!
I get what you’re saying, back budding can take a bit on firs when they’ve lost energy to pruning and styling. Below is a corkbark subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa var. lasiocarpa) of mine that just got its old vigor back after a couple years of slow growth. I took off the trunk that was full of energy, so took a little while to recover. I’m going to transplant it into the Sara Rayner pot next to it once spring arrives. I literally had to pry it off of the frozen ground for this picture, so it may be awhile…
Hi Everyone, it’s been quiet in this thread and I wanted to revisit it as we just passed the Holidays and it’d be cool to see if anyone else went out Christmas tree hunting again and created something from it?
I grabbed another Nordmann fir, pretty much the only fir we get here in CZ, and was shocked at finding a multi-trunk piece that I think can be a decent tree at some point. Now it needs ramification, back budding in several areas and a nice pot to improve :). Did you guys do anything this year?
Rescued this tree from the street in my neighborhood a couple of days ago. It was unpotted, dry soil and wilting tips but I think it’s not too late to save it. Lots of green and the needles are hanging on.
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if you are in the northern hemisphere it couldn’t be a larch so I think Thomas is right. Here in middle of europe alleppos are no common, so my first thought was a larch
Definitely going to give it some recovery time before doing anything to it. Full wind protection is a challenge for me due to my exposure, but protecting it the best I can. I’m in Los Angeles, and we’re getting some high winds and rain this week. It drank up the first 2 waterings very quickly so that’s telling me it’s going to make it.
Aleppo Pine seems like a good match from what I can find online.
I am still leaning towards Aleppo Pine… Aleppo Pine at Bonsai Tonight I see a lot of similarities, esp. in their image of mixed mature and juvenile shoots.
Happy to report 2 weeks later, the tree seems very healthy. All those drooping tips have perked back up. It’s pretty thirsty as it turns out!
Just got a nordom dorf abies fir it wasn’t cheap unfortunate but has a wonderful root base and decent movement up the trunk so how is everyone’s tree doing? Have you sold it or still got it?
Hey good to see this come alive again. I still have and most likely will never sell my 2nd christmas tree fir as Ive never come across anyone who is cultivating them jere in Europe. I did sell the first one.
I dont have a recent picture unfortunately but I have one almost 3 years ago this April.
Its much fuller now and ill have to make some decisions with negative space soon