This Compendium is a regularly updated resource for the Shuchu study group.
Soil is always available at each meeting
3/8" to 1/4" pumice
1/4" to fines black lava
The following calendar will help you determine which trees should be brought in for work at each meeting.
January
- Repotting all cold hardy species i.e. juniper, pine, maple, crape myrtle
- Cleaning conifers i.e. thinning needles on pine and removing old growth on juniper
- Wiring and styling conifers
- Cutback on all deciduous and evergreen broad leaf varieties
- Grafting all cold hardy species
- Conifer styling
- Overwinter spray, lime sulfur dip for smaller trees
February
- Repotting all cold hardy species i.e. juniper, pine, maple, crape myrtle
- Cleaning conifers i.e. thinning needles on pine and removing old growth on juniper
- Wiring and styling conifers
- Cutback on all deciduous and evergreen broad leaf varieties
- Grafting all cold hardy species
- Conifer styling
- Overwinter spray, lime sulfur dip for smaller tree
March
- Last call for repotting. We can still repot deciduous trees with swelling buds but not trees that have already leafed out
- Cleaning conifers i.e. thinning needles on pine and removing old growth on juniper
- Last call for Winter cutback work
- Wiring young shoots on deciduous while they are still flexible
- Pinching refined trees
April
- Cut back and wiring young shoots on deciduous species
- Pinching refined trees
May
- Cutback and wiring young shoots on deciduous species
- Repotting and all work related to tropical species
- All work related to tropical species
June
- Cutback and wiring
- Repotting and all work related to tropical species
- tropical species
- Deadwood, shari, and jin work on conifers
- General Juniper work
July
- Cutback and wiring
- Repotting and all work related to tropical species
- Deadwood, shari, and jin creation on conifers
- Decandling Japanese black pine begins early in the month for larger trees and later in the month for smaller trees
- General Juniper work
- Conifer styling
- Soji
August
- Cutback and wiring
- Repotting and all work related to tropical species
- Deadwood, shari, and jin creation on conifers
- General Juniper work
- Conifer styling
- Soji
September
- Cutback and wiring
- Last call for repotting tropical species - Those in South Florida or with greenhouses can continue repotting later into the year.
October
- Cutback and wiring
November
- Cutback and wiring
- Cleaning conifers i.e. thinning needles on pine and removing old growth on juniper
December
- Repotting all cold hardy species i.e. juniper, pine, maple, crape myrtle
- Cleaning conifers i.e. thinning needles on pine and removing old growth on juniper
- Remove old leaves on deciduous trees
- Grafting all cold hardy species
- Conifer styling