No...without a life line of bark left to the living branch(es) it will
die. I suspect what you saw had a hidden life line on the back of the
tree to support the living branch(es). Unless of course it was a
completely dead tree with no living branches...


Bil
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== -----Original Message-----
== From: MangaMan72 ]
== Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 8:18 PM
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== Subject: [IBC] beginner,question on jinning
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== I recently saw a picture of a tree that was completely jinned.NO
bark
== was left
== on the trunk at all.would this be safe for the tree?If not how much
can
== be
== jinned?You can just e-mail me.
== Thanks in advance.
==
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In a message dated 8/3/2003 9:09:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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I recently saw a picture of a tree that was completely jinned.NO bark was
left
on the trunk at all.Would this be safe for the tree? If not how much can be
jinned? You can just e-mail me.
Thanks in advance.

It wasn't all jin, there was a lifeline. Or, it might have been a Phoenix
graft. A dead piece of wood is put in front and a live tree wired to the
back. I watched Jim Smith help a club member create one of these a few months
back. It might have even made it to the Florida Convention.
Billy on the Florida Space Coast

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I recently saw a picture of a tree that was completely
jinned.NO bark was left
on the trunk at all.would this be safe for the tree?If not how
much can be
jinned?You can just e-mail me.
Thanks in advance.

If the tree had leaves/needles, the live bark must have been on
the backside. There HAS to be a "vein" (a bonsai, not a
scientific term) of live wood moving sap and water, etc. up and
down the tree.

An all-jin tree is a dead tree.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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I recently saw a picture of a tree that was completely
jinned.NO bark was left
on the trunk at all.would this be safe for the tree?If not how
much can be
jinned?You can just e-mail me.
Thanks in advance.

If the tree had leaves/needles, the live bark must have been on
the backside. There HAS to be a "vein" (a bonsai, not a
scientific term) of live wood moving sap and water, etc. up and
down the tree.

An all-jin tree is a dead tree.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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