Starting Year Three

I look forward to a year of deeper learning and developing the trees I have, and hope to add a few more mature trees to learn refinement skills.

Let my collected trees rest and recover:

  • Consider initial steps in styling, compacting, or reducing the size of the California Redbud. Or air-layer part of the top of later to remove.

  • San Jose Juniper—add Shari, force tighter movement and select foliage pads.

  • Restyle 1st Itoigawa, repot if more base movement allows one of the dual trunks can be jinned or removed.

  • Develop Redwood that was chopped—shape or Jin cut.

  • Initial bending/shaping of Douglas Fir if healthy in the fall. Collected in Nov 2024.

  • Consider if Zelcova saplings will be individual or combine some as a small forest.

  • Plan out any work for JT’s Scrub Oak.

  • Let Tridents blow out in growth and only one cut-back.

  • Red Alder May repot and refine branches and nebari.

  • Feed & let Cork Elm saplings to grow out—consider up-potting or root work next spring.

  • Feed & let Plum bases grow out

  • Develop birch cuttings or volunteers and prepare for a small forest for next year. Same flat, same soil.

  • Develop cotoneaster and redcurrant cuttings.

  • Refine younger junipers

Create taller benches for bigger trees to get sun and grow out off to the side. Dispose of the BBQ and ferns.

Develop pottery making—size, color—practice.

Propagation

  • Train cork bark elms—let them grow out (ignore them)

  • Cuttings: Zelkova

  • Cuttings: Cotoneaster

  • Cuttings: Junipers (Itoi & Kishu)

  • Redwood stumps

  • See if Cork Oak seedlings grow

Growing Small Web Resources

  • Should I manually list out my Beginners’ Guide from what I have learned thus far—or use ChatGPT to summarize and draft content to peer review and refine?

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