BunjaeKorea
Omono
Hello folks I am posting this in the new to bonsai section because I don't have experience with this particular species. So here's the story....
Built a new place with a nice big terrace on the 5th floor for bonsai. Anyways... due to building regulations I had to add garden beds to the terrace (weird eh? well its law here in R.O.K) Anyway they planted these trees but didn't make any drainage so they were basically sitting in water and I decided to pull them up and put them in pots before the whole thing becomes a block of ice. Now I have two unfamiliar trees that I have never worked on, they are going to need a trunk chop but still thinking of where. Foliage is identical but one seems to be a maroon cultivar.
I am guessing Thuja Occidentalis or Chamaecyparis Pisifera though Thuja seems more likely looking at the scale foliage shape.
Has anyone ever had any experience with these? I saw Neil Saunders very awesome Thuja video but it doesn't explain the best trunk chop for this species or how much foliage can safely be cut.
Before you start going off about how it isn't a good tree for bonsai let me remind you the difference between a good bonsai and a poor bonsai is usually 50 years (hehehe) I am young I have time....I think anyway...unless I get hit by a flying piano.....
Anywayssss, any advice would be appreciated with much appreciative appreciation!
Built a new place with a nice big terrace on the 5th floor for bonsai. Anyways... due to building regulations I had to add garden beds to the terrace (weird eh? well its law here in R.O.K) Anyway they planted these trees but didn't make any drainage so they were basically sitting in water and I decided to pull them up and put them in pots before the whole thing becomes a block of ice. Now I have two unfamiliar trees that I have never worked on, they are going to need a trunk chop but still thinking of where. Foliage is identical but one seems to be a maroon cultivar.
I am guessing Thuja Occidentalis or Chamaecyparis Pisifera though Thuja seems more likely looking at the scale foliage shape.
Has anyone ever had any experience with these? I saw Neil Saunders very awesome Thuja video but it doesn't explain the best trunk chop for this species or how much foliage can safely be cut.
Before you start going off about how it isn't a good tree for bonsai let me remind you the difference between a good bonsai and a poor bonsai is usually 50 years (hehehe) I am young I have time....I think anyway...unless I get hit by a flying piano.....
Anywayssss, any advice would be appreciated with much appreciative appreciation!