7 yo sapling JBP

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I looks like it is on its way back to health! If you can, you might try to bend it more down low, the curves you have there now will all but disappear as the trunk thickens.

Seconding this. I’d throw some nice tight bends and twists down low while it’s still thin enough.

 

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I always wonder how many people are turned off of this hobby because they think that those 7 years were what bonsai is. I wonder too how many of those could be brought back if they saw a thread like this, of recovering that tree!

And my friend didn't go out to start a bonsai journey. His then girlfriend now wife bought him a set kit to keep him busy while they were living in different cities. So he's been keeping it alive since then. An impressive Bonsai was never the goal, a totem to his dedication to the relationship was.

They moved to Hawaii and couldn't take the tree with them, so I got to take care of it, and this is the best way I know how to take care of it at a totem if respect for our friendship, which started about the same time.

 

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What a difference a season makes. Bigger training pot and outdoors.

End of season before pruning.


After some cleanup of bunched branches.