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2015-01-11

White Pine seedlings tryout

I got a little white pine seedling from a friend last year.
Well at least that's what he bought and so we are expecting this to be a white pine but its rapid growth is kind of a surprise.
White pine are known within the bonsai community to 5 needles per fascicles (bundles) and also to be a slow grower ( 1 growth per year ) compared to other japanese pine species used ( Japanese Black Pine and Japanese Red Pine)

Like I said above we are not yet sure which type of pine this is but we are hoping this turns out to be a white pine seedling.

July 2014
White Pine

August 2014
White Pine
You can see new needles just starting to appear at the center.

October 2014
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The new growth has elongated. I was expecting it to stay put until next year, but...

Janurary 2015
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Late December it was already starting to pull new growth and by January I'm starting to see some candle formation.
That's pretty fast for a plant who's supposed to be a slow grower. I just hope this quick growth won't weaken and kill the sapling.



Around December I got another batch of seeds that were already cold stratified in the fridge for several months.

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Repotting the seedlings
I've got two batch, one batch of 4 seedlings from the big seeds and one batch of 2 seedlings from the small seeds.

The seedling from the bigs seeds batch are more vigourous and with more developped roots, so I too the chance to root prune the tap root.


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But the seedlings from the small seeds batch are les vigourous so I won't take the risk of cutting the tap root on them.
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