Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Hoping for (or grafting) a bud to make it into a primary branch...what is the plan for the big branch scar on the right side of this guy, where it looked like it forked?
Hoping for (or grafting) a bud to make it into a primary branch...what is the plan for the big branch scar on the right side of this guy, where it looked like it forked?
Hoping for (or grafting) a bud to make it into a primary branch...
Sort of...not as easy as standard JM. Air layers have been easy.Can arakawa maples root easily from cuttings?
Hoping for (or grafting) a bud to make it into a primary branch...
I wouldn't even be digging these or the ROR tridents if I didn't need to relocate everything...but I have a couple piggies about ready to dig that may be good contestants. Just need the rain to move on.That looks like it is about three inches or so. I would enter this one, i think you could get some branching going pretty quickly.
Healthy too! That twin truck is the show stealer
Grimmy
Pretty SWEET!!!I dig this phase...
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It got a head-start as I air-layered it in 2011. It hasn’t gained much over the last 4 years in a Bonsai pot. The base has spread a little due to root work, and it may appear a bit fatter because it’s been reduced in height by about 50% since the 2015 photo. The plan is to grow it slowly over years in a pot to give it plenty of refined movement and taper that won’t happen if allowed to grow fast in the ground. If it doubles in size over the next 5-7 years, I’d be content.Wow!!!! Did the trunk gain that much mass living in bonsai pots the entire time?