Bonsai Collection at Meijer Gardens - Ponderosa Pine
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- Опубликовано: 8 май 2020
- Director of Horticulture Steve LaWarre talks about one of the trees in our bonsai collection, a Ponderosa Pine, and explores some characteristics that make a good bonsai tree.
What a beautiful Ponderosa bonsai ❤
What a fantastic pot! Great tree as well thanks for sharing
Yay, more love for Montana! ^.^ It's our state tree.
Any tips for pad development? I just unwired a ponderosa that I've had in training. The pads are underwhelming.,.
"Typically needles growing 12-14 inches long" -- This is (very) wrong --
The sub-species of Pinus Ponderosa with the longest growing needles is the Columbia ponderosa pine growing up to 8.1 inches in length.
Wow. You're so knowledgeable of Ponderosa needle length. Cold, but knowledgeable. On a side note, Audi "builds consistent quality, and is the standard of quality". Umm, this too, is (very) wrong. Busted timing chains, shrapnel-hurling airbags, start-stop electronics, excessive oil consumption... ruclips.net/video/GD5cod9GVzg/видео.html
You have to factor in health of the tree. Bonsai trees receive perfect growing conditions from soil to fertilizer tailored many times to specific species. The result of this is a tree that is far healthier than a wild tree and trees in peak conditions and health will by far outgrow the average. I have a ponderosa pine I planted from seed last January, in its first year it grew 26" which is more than double the high side of normal. Given, I use my own soil blend and I grow plants in semi shade, humid, outdoor areas which does help grow pines in particular alot faster I've found. I'm looking at it now and I'd say the upper needles on the 1 year old tree are probably pushing close to 3-4 inches so 12 for a fully mature well cared for tree isn't out of the question. 3-4" needles on a 1 year pine is pretty big
On the soil blend in case your wondering I'll share it because I have alot of people ask it grows everything like crazy. I use Organic potting soil ( I like the miracle grow personally many dont, the performanceorganics kind), play sand, cactus or orchid bark soil ( look for the stuff that's chunky bark) and compost or composted manure. Sand is 1/3, soil and orchid/cactus soil is 1/3, and manure is 1/3. I feed that with molasses water for 3 weeks then let it sit a week moist.then I wait about a week or 2 and plant. It will grow anything from veggies to trees, cactus, flowers etc. And 9/10 times whatever grows is enormous. I'm a big proponent of early shade growing in humid/semi humid environments then moving plants to full sun