Collected Vine Maple - Clean-Up Of Rotted Wood? What should be done to prevent further rotting?
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Posted 07 November 2009 - 02:30 AM
Appreciate any input.
somegeek
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Posted 07 November 2009 - 03:31 AM
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Posted 07 November 2009 - 03:52 AM
Enchantra, on 06 November 2009 - 07:31 PM, said:
* ahem * "DOH!"
Thought I attached it. See below.
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Posted 07 November 2009 - 04:36 AM
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -Jerry Seinfeld.
#5
Posted 07 November 2009 - 05:04 AM
Enchantra, on 06 November 2009 - 08:36 PM, said:
Thanks, Enchantra.
How long until I know this tree has survived the collection process? I'd like to clean up the rotted material asap. The wet season is upon us in the NW.
The lower down face to the left is dirty but solid. I'll probe it a bit tomorrow with a skewer to verify.
The bottom of this tree(surface under potting material) has very good bark as well. I removed this from a rotted log surface in a clear cut. I should have gotten pictures before potting it up. Far as I can tell, the only place with softened material is the location I pointed out.
somegeek
#6
Posted 07 November 2009 - 05:16 AM
somegeek, on 07 November 2009 - 12:04 AM, said:
How long until I know this tree has survived the collection process?
AS soon as it leafs out in the Spring and pushes some new growth you will know it survived.
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The lower down face to the left is dirty but solid. I'll probe it a bit tomorrow with a skewer to verify.
Personally I'd let Mother Nature do her worst and rot some of that for you right now. And there is nothing that says you cannot carve into that lower left area and hollow out the trunk. If the tree is healthy and strong it will take the carving of that area just fine.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. -Jerry Seinfeld.
#7
Posted 07 November 2009 - 05:48 AM
Enchantra, on 06 November 2009 - 09:16 PM, said:
Personally I'd let Mother Nature do her worst and rot some of that for you right now. And there is nothing that says you cannot carve into that lower left area and hollow out the trunk. If the tree is healthy and strong it will take the carving of that area just fine.
I'm a bonsai newbie so I may be looking at this differently. Would the hollow trunk be more a common direction for this kind of subject matter?
What sort of preservative needs to be applied once the trunk is hollow to prevent further rotting?
somegeek
#9
Posted 07 November 2009 - 05:34 PM
jkl, on 07 November 2009 - 07:53 AM, said:
Thanks, jkl. Should I be drilling a hole all the way through to allow for drainage then?
Here's a few more pics. Have this tilted at the moment so that cavity does not fill with water.






For this winter, I'd like to get this into the ground I am thinking.
somegeek
#11
Posted 07 November 2009 - 07:31 PM
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I think so. But first take the Dremel with a wire brush and get rid of ALL the rotted wood. Make sure the exit hole is large enugh that it wou't get clogged with leaf litter, soil, etc. Eventually, I suspect you will want to open the hollow all along its length, rather than having a tube.
#12
Posted 08 November 2009 - 02:20 PM
Good find,
Will
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Posted 24 April 2010 - 03:23 AM
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#14
Posted 24 April 2010 - 03:44 AM
Right now, it kind of looks like a 3 tree raft style - essentially a large tree that fell and then smaller trees sprouted up. If that is the way you want to design it, then you probably need to let your 3 trees grow a little thicker before pruning.
However, if you want to somehow make this a larger tree with a hollow trunk, and use these 3 as branches or something, then you are going to have to get the trunk into a more upright position somehow, and pick one of these trunks to be your new leader and train the other 2 as branches.
What is your plan?
"As a twig is bent the tree inclines" - Virgil (70BC-19BC)
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"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it." - Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848
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