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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: DC on May 17, 2020, 11:42:37 pm

Title: My Osage tree
Post by: DC on May 17, 2020, 11:42:37 pm: I have three, this is the biggest. I wonder if I'll live long enough to make a bow out of it ;D ;D It's got quite a bit of character (lol) (lol) (lol)
Title: Re: My Osage tree
Post by: bjrogg on May 18, 2020, 06:00:10 am: Looks like you might get one of those nature center shoot handles DC
Bjrogg
Title: Re: My Osage tree
Post by: Eric Krewson on May 18, 2020, 07:04:17 am: I never got past the sapling growing stage, I did cull any saplings that didn't grow straight. I ended up selling/giving away all of them.

I don't have a place to plant one now but always wondered if one could train a sapling to grow straight by tying it to a stake as it grew.
Title: Re: My Osage tree
Post by: BowEd on May 18, 2020, 07:22:31 am: I believe that's a female sapling DC.It's got thorns and should in time produce hedge balls.
Title: Re: My Osage tree
Post by: GlisGlis on May 18, 2020, 07:54:53 am: use copper wire and tutors to make it straighter
copper is used in bonsai to shape and position the limbs
Title: Re: My Osage tree
Post by: JEB on May 18, 2020, 08:08:31 am: when did you plant that tree? or how old is it?
Title: Re: My Osage tree
Post by: Pat B on May 18, 2020, 08:29:13 am: Once that seedling is allowed to grow unassisted in it's permanent location it should straighten up. The one I planter about 10 years ago has a straight trunk for about 5.5' with longer, straight shoots coming off of it. The bends in this sapling are at the alternate budding giving it it's zigzag form.
Title: Re: My Osage tree
Post by: DC on May 18, 2020, 10:46:06 am: Quote from: JEB on May 18, 2020, 08:08:31 am
when did you plant that tree? or how old is it?

I got them from Wizardgoat at our gathering last June. They've been in 4" pots until this spring when I decided where to put them.

Quote from: GlisGlis on May 18, 2020, 07:54:53 am
use copper wire and tutors to make it straighter
copper is used in bonsai to shape and position the limbs

I did bonsai for 15 years, I've got "LOTS" of wire. Then I did model yachts so I've got a bundle of carbon fibre mast I can use to get them straight.

Quote from: Pat B on May 18, 2020, 08:29:13 am
Once that seedling is allowed to grow unassisted in it's permanent location it should straighten up. The one I planter about 10 years ago has a straight trunk for about 5.5' with longer, straight shoots coming off of it. The bends in this sapling are at the alternate budding giving it it's zigzag form.

Do they have a decent flower? I need a bit of a selling point for when the start to get in the way :D
Title: Re: My Osage tree
Post by: Pat B on May 18, 2020, 11:44:39 am: I've never seen an osage flower. I know they do flower because they have fruit but depending on their pollinators the flowers may not be noticeable to us.