Bought these two Shimpaku's recently. One is much larger than the other.
The smaller one is probably a 1/2 inch trunk at most. I know it's too small to really do much with but I'd like to wire/prune it with the goal of growing it out and letting it develop into good pre-bonsai. With that end in mind what would you do to this plant? (I'm planning to give it some space to grow so don't waste your keystrokes on that).
The larger plant I bought because I didn't have a shimpaku at the time, the price was good, and thought at the very least I could take some cuttings from the plant or stick it in the ground and let it grow some more. Looking at this plant, is there enough there to make something reasonable out of it now? If so, what would you do to it? Being a beginner, the trouble I'm having with this one is that the trunk comes up a couple inches and then splits into many branches that fan out (though not necessarily in a true whorl/spoke&hub fashion, just that within a 6 inch diameter volume there are a lot of somewhat thick branches coming off the main short trunk, so it's hard to identify a longer trunk if there is one . I'm just having trouble seeing what I can make of it. I hope the pictures convey what I'm talking about.
I appreciate your thoughts and comments. Thanks.
The smaller one is probably a 1/2 inch trunk at most. I know it's too small to really do much with but I'd like to wire/prune it with the goal of growing it out and letting it develop into good pre-bonsai. With that end in mind what would you do to this plant? (I'm planning to give it some space to grow so don't waste your keystrokes on that).
The larger plant I bought because I didn't have a shimpaku at the time, the price was good, and thought at the very least I could take some cuttings from the plant or stick it in the ground and let it grow some more. Looking at this plant, is there enough there to make something reasonable out of it now? If so, what would you do to it? Being a beginner, the trouble I'm having with this one is that the trunk comes up a couple inches and then splits into many branches that fan out (though not necessarily in a true whorl/spoke&hub fashion, just that within a 6 inch diameter volume there are a lot of somewhat thick branches coming off the main short trunk, so it's hard to identify a longer trunk if there is one . I'm just having trouble seeing what I can make of it. I hope the pictures convey what I'm talking about.
I appreciate your thoughts and comments. Thanks.