major bend

Hello, I have 2 larch saplings that are about the size of pencil, maybe 1.5 pencils. From what I know I should wire them in the autumn so that they can still heal a little bit before winter. I plan on really bending these puppies, I want to make them really gnarly and I was wondering if I should...

I was curious if there’s a general rule of thumb you Nutters use when to implement raffia. As in, if the branch is X thick, I’ll probably wrap it before any major bends. I understand this will probably be different depending on the species, with some being more flexible than others. I was...

I have previously posted this tree here, but after my work today I thought this tree deserved its own progression thread. https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/austrian-black-pine-nursery-material.60014/ I first bent this tree quite drematically from this To this Now about four months later I...