Thank you. Most forget to cover this practice of spring candle breaking and only describe summer decandling. You’ve helped to fill in a missing piece for me!
Love this video, and ended up feeling concerned after watching it, because my JBP has very small candles. I’ve been using biogold and keeping it in direct sunlight, but the growth isn’t even close to this. Maybe I need a bigger pot next January? Btw, I live in Florida, and many have successfully grown them here. Thanks again for the awesome video.
Hi William. We use this technique to help balance the growth on a jbp. If your candles are all the same size and balanced on the tree then you may not need to use this method. Shoot me some pics via Instagram and I’ll have a look for you.
Hi Charles, we don't use scissors because they may damage the remaining needles that are yet to grow where we remove the tip. By using our fingers we only break the candle and do no damage to the young needles.
Thanks Scott. When you use scissors you can damage the needles that are forming. By using your fingers and breaking the candle you just break the stem of the candle and do not damage the new needles.
Hi Scott, really interesting video, thanks for sharing! Is this method only for JBPs in early development stage where decandeling and needle plucking alone cannot achieve energy balance?
Hi Jack. It's another tool we can use to help balance pines at any stage. It's used more on my younger pines until they are balanced and then I don't need to use it quite as much. Even refined JBP that have large candles will have them broken in Spring. I hopethat helps.
Very informative! I'm an aussie too and I just started a new bonsai channel where I track the progress of my learning and the development of my trees. Hope to see you over my way too.🌲
this is probably why I do not have pines. As much as I like them. I have seen videos where they recommend that candle snapping is in mid summer for pines.
