Steven, your neck! You have one!

Okay, I was going to be happy with just the skull sitting on the forest floor, but that image of the roots making a neck the last time I repotted it have stuck with me, and today was incredibly warm (almost hit 70... in late January), so I decided to push it a little further.  I decided to give the main project a neck.

As you can see, he currently has a rope around his neck.  Its to make sure the roots pull in close together under the skull to make a proper neck and not just have it be a pile of roots with the head on top of it.

As you can see, its pulled tight enough to even give him a chin!

Only weak spot that I've seen so far is in the back where it doesn't really have the root density to support itself in the proper position right now.  I'm hoping that much like the roots on the face the neck roots will thicken and toughen up enough to lock it into place, but in the mean time he gets more soil under the back of his head to make sure it doesn't lean over at an odd angle.

Wish I had some vertebrae I could stick in there to make a spine to hold him up, but alas.

Next time!