Ciao Tutti!

A 1000 visits to the nursery and I’ve decided to bring this beautiful Mugo Pine home.

What style should I go for? I am thinking cascade or semi cascade style, what do you guys recon?
I’ve always been fascinated with the cascade style.

Let me hear your recommendations, looking forward to the hearing ideas you have.



Ciao! Pim

I would not choose a style yet. If you want to go for a small tree, in accordance with the thickness of the trunk, the foliage is too far away from the trunc. So you will need to achieve some serious backbudding which will take years.
Second option: you want a bigger tree, in accordance with the foliage being far away from the trunk but then the trunk is way too thin. So you will need to fatten up the trunk which will take years.
I see a bonsai pot in the picture- you were not planning on planting the tree in it I hope? Not only is this the wrong time of the year to repot, the trunk will not or very slowly fatten up.
I would plant it in the ground , or a bigger container next spring, and depending on what your plans are chase back the foliage or fatten up the trunk.

Thanks @lucR

My intention is to go for a bigger tree as my current collection has 3 small Olive Shohin trees and 1 Mame Olive tree, 1 Kifu Sho Acer Palmatum.

You get my drift I want to step up the game a bit, backbudding is fairly easy here in northern Italy because of the climate and the trees spontaneously grow here (part of our natural habitat/landscape).

You are absolutely right, not going to touch anything regarding the repotting. The picture was taken just before I took her home and the vases you see are from the nursery selection. I took the picture there because of my enthusiasm and good light that day.



For now she is at home and I have all the time in the world to think about what I want to achieve, it’s about the journey and the health of the plant not about my ego and putting it in a pot or start cutting branches possibly compromising the tree.

Thank you again really appreciate your feedback, if anyone else has some ideas let me know.

Ciao for now.

Pim

Give it all the sunlight it can get, don’t place it under a porch or something like that.
Where in northern Italy do you live?

@lucR

Appreciate it, I am a Dutch guy living in Italy since 2006 and live a few miles away from Turin City near the pre alps mountain range, Turin first capital of Italy (some history for you)

The tree is placed on the south side of the house and gets approximately 8/10 hours of full sun all day. I turn my trees every day in the morning before I leave for work.

Ciao,

Pim

Welkom- je weet dat er ook een Nederlandstalig bonsai empire forum is?

Dankje,

Nee eerlijk gezegd niet, ik ga direct even zoeken. Ben nu geïnteresseerd om zoveel mogelijk te lezen over wiring van pines.

Aangezien ik nu niet veel mag/kan doen is mijn doel om zoveel mogelijk info te vergaren. Dit is mijn eerste Mugo Pine en eerlijk gezegd eerste Pine all together.

Ciao

As you have made a thousand trips to nurseries.. Yu bought this. What did you see in it. What features were so impressive that you decided: That is the one?

That should primarely dictate where you take the tree. Not the ideas of some people on a forume

@leatherback on behalf of all the new newbie’s

The Latin and American definition of a Forum, as shown below:



Thank you for your constructive feedback, I appreciate it anyways!

Ciao bello

I thought Leatherback had it right.


We usually forget to say it, but it's your tree. Ask yourself why you picked it.