2 Most Likely Shohin Junipers

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I collected these in spring of this year. Which one do you like better?


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They are both very nice -- tho it's a bit hard to see the first one. I think I'd see more chance for a different bonsai with the first one. The second would be too easy to turn into a cookbook juniper with jin and shari.
 
All 3 are wicked...but I personally love #3.
 
Awesome. I like them both, and see very bright futures for them if they survive of course. If they were for sale I'd buy them both...
 
I prefer the 2nd... but I like them both. I think on the 2nd once you highlight the live vein and clean up the superfluous deadwood, there will be a really nice flow to the lower trunk.
 
Thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it! I can't decide which one I like better and they are both very different trees. I love the dead wood on #1 and especially the hole it has. However #2 has more interesting movement and cool jin and shari as well. Dav4-I'm sorry i'm currently out of town for thanksgiving, but i'll try and get some pics of the back. On #2 you can kind of tell where the live vein is mostly on the back and right side of the tree. You can tell a slight change in color, but I have not cleaned it up/removed some of the dead bark to show it off more.
 
Thanks for all the feedback, I really appreciate it! I can't decide which one I like better and they are both very different trees. I love the dead wood on #1 and especially the hole it has. However #2 has more interesting movement and cool jin and shari as well. Dav4-I'm sorry i'm currently out of town for thanksgiving, but i'll try and get some pics of the back. On #2 you can kind of tell where the live vein is mostly on the back and right side of the tree. You can tell a slight change in color, but I have not cleaned it up/removed some of the dead bark to show it off more.
I see it now...awesome little juniper. For the record, as different as they are, I think they both have great potential. I would have difficulty choosing as well. Have fun with them.

Dave
 
They are both nice trees and look well one their way to great specimens. Have you done anything yet to preserve the dead wood?

ed
 
I see a better tree in no. one.
 
Here's a quick update on the sierra. Not the greatest picture, you can see the detail in the deadwood much better in my first post. It's not actually Shohin-too big.

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I like the first one. Your pic is taken at an angle but if I turn my head and look at it with the potted angle I enjoy it even more. Great find. Wow
 
yenling, do you have an update on the other one? This one is looking very healthy.
 
Thanks for the replys! Judy I have not done anything with the other besides let it grow, it's growing well but not as much as this one-I may style next year depending on how it looks. Tom-collected from the Sierras and the Desert with permit, sorry that's about as specific as I can be on a public forum.
 
Update on #1, it's a little too big for Shohin, more of a small Chuhin size. I ended up selling tree #2 to my buddy Greg. The tree below is not actually in the pot below, the actual tree is behind that pot so I could see what this pot/tree combo would look like.

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