branch development

  1. tanlu

    Field-grown non-grafted JWP

    This tree is 18 years old and was potted in March 2024 in terracotta, with a good amount of garden soil mixed with bonsai soil. It was repotted again to remove the garden soil this spring into pumice, lava rock, and turface (1-1-1) in a 12” Japanese Tokoname training pot. The tree has lots of...
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    • branch development branch selection deadwood care field grown five needle pine japanese white pine jwp pine development seed grown styling advice
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    • Forum: Pines
  2. Grunge_Bonsai

    I Keep Breaking New Branches

    I have a JM that is still in its 5 gallon nursery pot with about a 1.5 in. diameter trunk. Great thick nebari. It is so vigorous, even though I trunk-chopped it back in March. It keeps throwing off huge long branches that break under their own weight! It is literally breaking branches off of...
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    • arizona cypress branch breaking branch development cypress japanese maple prune summer
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    • Forum: General Discussion
  3. circledisk

    The 2024 Field Growing Thread

    Unusually, there has never been an annual field growing thread here on bnut. Since there's so much emphasis on chopping and collecting right away, I thought I'd start one myself. There's a ton of information out there on youtube and on practitioners websites that I rarely see posted here. I'm a...
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