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Here is that same tree four years or so later. Just finished pruning it last week and wire. It was pretty shaggy as it hadn't really been worked since that last photo. Shoots were about a foot long. Check out the close up of a branch and see what I mean about separating into small twigs with...

Look at each branch it looks like a fist. Now splay them out like the fingers on an open palm. Turn the tips up slightly. Clean out the growth in each crotch as you build and expose some bark on each tip with growth on the end. It just seems to me that you build a whole bunch of new fists, cut...

You have enough canopy on this tree to make three trees. Open each of those pom poms up and wire out individual branchlets. Cut off what does not need to be there. thin and thin some more. Make sub branches within the pom poms, I know there can be a lot more openings with in each branch.

Just keep at it, you'll get it when the times right.

Willow leaf ficus repot

I agree.

This ones for sale at a Japanese auction site for $7000.00 starting bid. I've seen it go to 15,000.00 and then show up again the next week. I guess it didn't meet the reserve.

Read the whole story. Look at all that was cut away from the butt of this tree and the year done. I won't live long enough to build a plate down there, and frankly some of them are just plain ugly, impressive yes, but not my cup of tea. I would love for anyone to post any tree of Ebihara, or any...

Good luck bringing any plant material into the USA, on your own. Benny Kim and Vicky Lee both had their own quarantine station in the San Bernadino mountains. I don't think either import any more due to the mountains of restrictions.

They sorta did. They rooted in some places, but I cut too deeply into the trunk and I think I lost some hydraulics to the top. Some started to die back, and two died completely. I will start over this year and try to save a few.

BTW, this tree came by way of Benny Kim and is a import directly from China.

I will post a picture in a larger pot I have and you tell me what you think. later tomorrow.

I agree. I think the pots too small for the canopy. I don't think the canopy is too large for the trunk, just overall too large for the pot.

Trident repot. This tree was purchased in 2002. Long story but I got the tree and started to do my thing. I planted this tree for decades in a very shallow pot tied in hard and no soil under the roots. While many are now talking about the Ebihara method, Keppler was doing his own method without...

Couple more repots into two new Japanese Nan Ban's fresh from Japan.

Picked up this giant trident maple. Ready for spring in giant Yoshimura crackle glaze cream colored pot. Trunk is seven inches across out of the soil and has almost 9 inch spread. About 20 inches tall. Tree should canopy out at about 26 inches tall.

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I agree about working it. Nice and dense, holds an edge and sands well. If only it wasn't green. Stains terrible. My favorite is black walnut, still inexpensive and then alder. Stains well with all the other attributes. I like box elder for carving.

El Cap on the far left, and Half Dome across the street on the right in the center.