So you want to Bonsai a Mugo Pine?

[@BuffaloBonsai]

Looks great Gizzy ! I look forward to pruning my mugo pine when the candles start growing to get nice branching like you have. Excellent. I'm also gonna try to air layer a big chuck off the giant ground planted one in the front yard .

[@gizzygreenfingers]

Sounds great 👍 does this species do well with air layer? Still got a lot to learn with this tree, all I do know is you repot it in the summer 🤣

[@TalkingLoon]

It's a very challenging air layer but not impossible. If you're losing the branch anyway it's worth the shot.

[@BuffaloBonsai]

@@gizzygreenfingers I had heard that I was difficult to do, however the one I have did so relatively easily. I didn't do anything differently than I would on any other air layer .

[@njpringle]

HNY!😀Looks great. Have you got a Scots Pine. One of my favourite native trees. I've seen them as bonsai and they look good. Could hear your crickets at the end. I watched some random video yesterday about how to keep them. The yt'er said they can smell, do they?😷

[@gizzygreenfingers]

HNY to you as well 😊, well Scots pine tend to loose there lower branches as they age which put me off to be honest, but I do have my eye on one in my bosses field 🤭 trouble is that it's in a spiral guard so it will be long and don't think you can actually cut a Scots pine in half as nothing would grow back 🤷

[@gizzygreenfingers]

And yes if you don't clean them out daily they would smell as rotting cabbage smells lol, and the dead crickets will rott and smell if not eaten by other crickets

[@njpringle]

​@@gizzygreenfingers might get some fish instead😂. I have 3 Scots Pine growing in a small tomato grow bag. They are 10 years old now, and each about 40cm tall, but they have had no bonsaing done to them. Probably would look good if they were.