Hey all,
So I bought this A.P. Seiryu at my local Lowes back in October. Needless to say, it was an impulse buy (First and last time I do that) due to it being on clearance for $10. Its been in its nursery pot since then and the weather is finally good enough to try something with it.
As I did more research into Maples and bonsai in general, I realized that this may not be the best stock to create a bonsai with. I also saw that the dissectum (lace leaf?) varieties are hard to grow/propagate/work with. Nevertheless, I came up with a few ideas and was hoping to get some advice on each idea, advice on going a completely different direction than my ideas, or just told I'm dumb for trying is cool too. Ha!
Here is the tree as it stands now:
WARNING: Terrible drawing skills ahead.
Option 1: Raft (I would support the upper pot/box with some shelving. YELLOW TEXT: Pebble/object to hold wound open?)
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Option 2: Cascade (the H shaped white thing under the drawn pot is supposed to represent the shelving I would put the tree on.)
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Option 3: Just trunk chop the f@$%in' thing and see what happens.
I'm really willing to try anything with this tree, seeing as it wouldn't be a big loss if I kill it. I'm completely open to other ideas.
Thanks for everyone's time!
So I bought this A.P. Seiryu at my local Lowes back in October. Needless to say, it was an impulse buy (First and last time I do that) due to it being on clearance for $10. Its been in its nursery pot since then and the weather is finally good enough to try something with it.
As I did more research into Maples and bonsai in general, I realized that this may not be the best stock to create a bonsai with. I also saw that the dissectum (lace leaf?) varieties are hard to grow/propagate/work with. Nevertheless, I came up with a few ideas and was hoping to get some advice on each idea, advice on going a completely different direction than my ideas, or just told I'm dumb for trying is cool too. Ha!
Here is the tree as it stands now:
WARNING: Terrible drawing skills ahead.
Option 1: Raft (I would support the upper pot/box with some shelving. YELLOW TEXT: Pebble/object to hold wound open?)
View media item 3296
Option 2: Cascade (the H shaped white thing under the drawn pot is supposed to represent the shelving I would put the tree on.)
View media item 3295
Option 3: Just trunk chop the f@$%in' thing and see what happens.
I'm really willing to try anything with this tree, seeing as it wouldn't be a big loss if I kill it. I'm completely open to other ideas.
Thanks for everyone's time!