Thanks Sorce. I Appreciate it. Sometime "less is more" ...I wasn't exactly "rocking out" with you on removing the sacrifices, but you straight sold me with the sketch!
Nice!
Sorce
less is more"
Time will decide whats best for our tree interms of design. One simple thought of mine, any weird placement on branches or movement is always the best future jin and just put them(the uncertain part) on the 'sacrificial' side for the moment (just to make self happy at your shimp current stages)....Oh most of the time!
I was thinking cut back to them cuz compact is always the first car on my thought train!
I'm still on the fence with my Shimp.
Don't know if I "fancy them".
I'd be happy to read any and all otherwise seemingly nonsense notes if you have any to share!
Sorce
Thanks for the time on your thought. Will try to draw it on monday..no tools for me to draw atm. That drawing is drawn during my powerbreak in the office.Hmm. I like the drawing, but I have an idea you may want to consider and draw. You have good drawing skills btw. Anyway, I like the idea of taking the right branch, and jinning only the top two subdivisions of that branch. Leaving the bottom subdivision alive. Then, you have something green to fill in a touch of that negative space, but still engage with the deadwood, directly. Another option within that would be to save the top portion of the branch and make the two lowest parts jins, carrying the deadwood to the soil line. As well as carrying the deadwood on the left side down to the soil line. I would like to see your sketch of one of those two ideas. I wonder if I would still feel that way after it was drawn. Just food for thought. End design is your own decision obviously, but I do think more play between the live and dead at the bottom would nicely mirror the play of live and deadwood at the top. Fantastic idea and drawing though. Definitely forces the perspective of a tall, tortured tree.
I like the taller tree... the sketch looks good but the Jin at the top is a bit much IMO. I would shorten it..View attachment 159755 time to cut that air layered part.View attachment 159756 RESULT FROM AIR LAYERING. FREE View attachment 159757 View attachment 159758 View attachment 159759 sacrificial branch for JINs in future.View attachment 159760Rough sketch for reference.
I like the taller tree... the sketch looks good but the Jin at the top is a bit much IMO. I would shorten it..
Clean look. I love it. thanks bonsai nut for creating this illustration. Yup, jin can be shorten accordingly from time to time. That shallow pot and the offset position u did increase the visual.I agree. However it is always easy to shorten it after the fact - and you can create easy virtuals with an art program before you make your final decision.
Of the five jins in the sketch, I personally would only only keep two. The one off the apex (shortened) and the highest trunk jin on the right side. You can turn the jins on the trunk into shari if needed. Then, pot it up in a shallower pot, slightly off-center with the apex centered over the middle.
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Clean look. I love it. thanks bonsai nut for creating this illustration. Yup, jin can be shorten accordingly from time to time. That shallow pot and the offset position u did increase the visual.
Just one question. Should i start to move the tree slowly to a shallow pot now(by stages perhaps or)? As,this is roughly the size of the tree i wanted after all.
Scared the root system in that deep pot getting too big ends up cutting more than 50% of the root and weaken the tree...any thoughts?
Cheers
Thanks Bonsai Nut for the tips.Do it slowly. First wait for early spring. Then remove it from the current pot, reducing the bottom roots a little bit but not touching any roots on the top of the root ball. Try to spread the roots out as much as you can without heavy trimming. Then plant the tree in a shallow container with the bottom of the root ball on the bottom of the container. Fill the container with good bonsai soil, and your tree should throw a lot of healthy, shallow, radial roots. Once the tree has developed a good pad of shallow roots, you can reduce the downward growing roots even more without stressing the tree. Eventually it will be ready to move into a shallow pot. This is also a good time to try to develop the nebari as much as possible, by planting at a depth that highlights a flair at the base of the trunk where the trunk meets the soil.
After repot should i cover the nebari with sphagnum moss(wont work like deciduous tree i guess) to furthur developing the nebari or do we have other method to do so?
ah I see. by grafting. noted. Thanks Bonsai nut.I am not aware of anyone getting new roots to form from the base of a juniper by using sphagnum moss. Most people that I know use approach grafts to graft on small saplings. After the graft has taken, you can remove the top of the sapling, but the roots remain to feed the mother tree,
After reviewing....looks like there might be other option or possible new front.
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all those sketch just for fun onlyWTF! Have you explored the market for sketching of trees?
That is wicked!
Sorce