Muranaka Nursery (Nipomo, CA)
Enjoyed my visit to the Muranaka Nursery for the first time. George Muranaka was very generous with his time and walked me through his humble, 2 acre nursery.
His backyard nursery included many trees in the ground and some for sale in nursery pots. If in the ground, he would not sell until the winter dormancy to make a safe potting. Many different ages and stages of development.
Grows black pine, red pine, and white pine. White pine is grafted onto black pine trunk to withstand warmer weather and lower altitude; because white pines require called dormancy. Red pines grow well in the ground or in a deep nursery pot and may withstand a warmer dormancy; but will not do well in zone 9a in a bonsai pots with inorganic soil. Black pines are very resilient and our lower altitude trees. Black Pineneedles can be trained to be short, but always hurt your hands, very strong pointed needles. Red pines tend to be , a little more yellow, but very soft to the touch. White pines or five middle pines can be very short middle. Grafting onto a black pine trunk or even a black pine rip has been done where white pine branches or needles are crafted near black, pine branches on a whim. When the white pine branches Develop, the black pine, branches and needles are removed. It has the rough bark of a black pine, and a very fine white pine needles. Red pines look like black pines in terms of branches and foliage.
In Japan, black pines are developed with thick trunks by wire in low to the trunk, with aluminum wire and nut copper, and let the trunk grow over the wires. Some say remove the wires, some say, leave the wires. Copper wire is poisonous to the tree if left under the bark.
For pine development, leave the needles on the trunk, and on the branch, and the candle black pines in June to July. Do not “needle-pluck.” This will encourage back budding and needles closer to the trunk.
If a black pine allows branches to grow long sacrifice branches at the base or a sacrifice of the Apex, the lower trunk may grow in diameter within three years. The challenge with long sacrificial lower branches is that you might trip over them. (may wire them going up in parallel to the trunk.)
OPEN MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
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419 PAJARO LANE, NIPOMO, CA
(805) 929-4818