I collect most of it in our orchard´s irrigation pool that is now concrete jungle with lots of trees that grew in there after it went out of service.



Well, actually, as you can see, I got someone who does the dirty work for me.

Some species of moss grow nice, other will get burned by the sun in a day, so I know by experience which one to collect.

There is some moss growing in a shade on a fence in my yard too, so I use that too sometimes.
Anyways, the moss in nicest in spring and autumn, full sun doesn´t do it much good and as most of my penjing are on full sun for the most of the day, the moss isn´t the best looking in summer.
I water 3 times a day so it is surviving though.
I use it on all of my penjings as I use solely zeolite as a potting medium and it dries quickly.

Thank you Mimo! Great stuff from you. May be you can open a separate topic about your moss and share experience as you do for your penjings. Would be great, thanks.

Mother tree growing nicely after the collection.
First and second pic current state, the third is the plan - inspired by trees of Wu Chengfa - chinese penjing master.

Good plan.
Looks nice!

I read all of the topic, and I think you made some amazing work here, and also some quality photos.. You could be proud.
In other way, I hate you, cause you make me want wisteria, and where I’ll put, near my other plant plans...

Are you REALLY that rude dude?

Cronic wrote:

good that it's alive, but i'm sorry to say that you airlayered a very ugly piece with several inverse taper problems and barely any interesting features..

Are you REALLY that rude dude?

BuddhaDrew wrote:

Cronic wrote:

good that it's alive, but i'm sorry to say that you airlayered a very ugly piece with several inverse taper problems and barely any interesting features..

Are you REALLY that rude dude?

Do yoU REALLY have to bring up posts from over 2 years ago? What is the *-ing point.

All right lads, lets get to my trees that are still alive and well.
And to my accidental psycho judgment and ideas.
I was walking around the trees with a scissors few days back and it occured to me that I should prune my wisteria airlayer, so I did and I pruned every branch just to 1 pair of leaves.
I wanted as much sunshine as possible to reach inner crown and maybe initiate some more budding or ramification at the cuts.
Never read anywhere that it is a good idea, just that you build ramification by cutting the flowers off after they fade away.
Anyways, right after that I got to my computer, browsed through new blog posts I am subscribed to, what did I find?
Michael Hagedorns blog about wisterias and ramification - and that we are supposed to cut to 1 pair of leaves every season to get ramification.
This is some crazy coincidence And I am glad that it is a nice one and I didn´t do anything wrong again this time.
However, I must be really bad example for enthusiasts as I sometimes do what I think might be good without actually knowing for sure what might happen.

But at least my photography background has arrived and I was able to do a proper pic of my airlayer.
With a nice grey background as in my favourite book by Qingquan Zhao.

Beautiful tree and very nice shade of grey background!