GreatLakesBrad
Chumono
Hopefully not jinxing this yamadori/collected larch by dedicating a thread.
Collected ‘up north’ from a bog (northern lower peninsula) in fall of 2020, in line with the late, great Nick Lenz’ guidance via Bonsai from the Wild.
Naming him “Ernie.”
Left in a window well for winter 2020 (10 degrees warmer for root recovery) and left mostly untouched to grow in 2021.
Put on a lot of growth last year so I felt comfortable doing an initial styling. Happy with the progress and sharing a drawing of what I have in mind.
Left myself two remaining apex options (still reduced them, but left in case I change my mind) - behind the wired apex off to the right, and upper left. I will likely favor two lower buds for the transition of the wired apex and reduce it back to those shoots, for a more compressed change of direction like the drawing shows. Still probably will play with the planting angle as well.
Need to graft a branch into the lower left hand side at minimum to balance out the image. The roots support this design from what I can tell, but I’m sure I’ll need future root grafts.
All of that said, I treasure the ancient look and feel of this tree. I spent many hours debating these cuts and am not devastated by the result which is a win for me, still learning, working on very intimidating material.
Thoughts (and prayers haha) welcome.
Collected ‘up north’ from a bog (northern lower peninsula) in fall of 2020, in line with the late, great Nick Lenz’ guidance via Bonsai from the Wild.
Naming him “Ernie.”
Left in a window well for winter 2020 (10 degrees warmer for root recovery) and left mostly untouched to grow in 2021.
Put on a lot of growth last year so I felt comfortable doing an initial styling. Happy with the progress and sharing a drawing of what I have in mind.
Left myself two remaining apex options (still reduced them, but left in case I change my mind) - behind the wired apex off to the right, and upper left. I will likely favor two lower buds for the transition of the wired apex and reduce it back to those shoots, for a more compressed change of direction like the drawing shows. Still probably will play with the planting angle as well.
Need to graft a branch into the lower left hand side at minimum to balance out the image. The roots support this design from what I can tell, but I’m sure I’ll need future root grafts.
All of that said, I treasure the ancient look and feel of this tree. I spent many hours debating these cuts and am not devastated by the result which is a win for me, still learning, working on very intimidating material.
Thoughts (and prayers haha) welcome.
