Purchased my very first pre-bonsai nursery stock tree. A Hokkaido Chinese elm tree. I repotted into Hoffman bonsai soil and placed it in a slightly larger pot and I’m keeping it in shade and slowly letting sun get to it. Letting it grow this year and develop a trunk. I have no interest in the S curves at all. I realize it will be a long while before I can do anything with it.
Or will it? Opinions on when to prune and wire are welcome!!
Secondly I have an old tree grown for foliage. I now believe it is a way overgrown ficus Benjamina??
It is over 4’ tall and the leaves are up to 6” in length. Ridiculous... I now realize. But it was just a house tree. Now I need strong suggestions for pruning this!