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I was able to work on pinching and cleaing of three small shohin bonsai over the last few days. I was able to pull up a few older photo's to see how they have progressed in the last few years. Some have taken longer and some have really worked well in a short period.
The first one is a small trident maple. I do not have a before picture of it before the chop but it was about 12 inches tall. I aquired the tree in 1998 from Sandy Planting, a local Shohin guru much like Doris Frowning. I chopped it down to about half. It was a pretty blunt chop and it had healed slowly. I potted it soon after the chop, like the following year, and growth was slow.
I recently took the tree from the small pots that I kept it in and am now growing it out in a larger but still small container. The chop is nearly healed now and the canopy has really started to take on a better shape. Maybe one more year in the grow pot to work on the branches a little more and it will be ready to go back to a show pot.
The first pic is from 2001 and the second from 2002. My largest critic during that time, Carl Bergstrom had some pretty negative things to say about this tree. I wish he could see it now.
The first one is a small trident maple. I do not have a before picture of it before the chop but it was about 12 inches tall. I aquired the tree in 1998 from Sandy Planting, a local Shohin guru much like Doris Frowning. I chopped it down to about half. It was a pretty blunt chop and it had healed slowly. I potted it soon after the chop, like the following year, and growth was slow.
I recently took the tree from the small pots that I kept it in and am now growing it out in a larger but still small container. The chop is nearly healed now and the canopy has really started to take on a better shape. Maybe one more year in the grow pot to work on the branches a little more and it will be ready to go back to a show pot.
The first pic is from 2001 and the second from 2002. My largest critic during that time, Carl Bergstrom had some pretty negative things to say about this tree. I wish he could see it now.