october
Masterpiece
Hello all...This is a large blue atlas cedar I have been training as a literati for about 2 years. Unfortunatley..the more that I was looking at it. The more I knew it would never be a good bonsai if kept the way it was... It looked like a landscape tree and did not have the scale of a bonsai. The branches were too thick, too far apart and all the buds were too large for the tree.
I ended up chopping the tree right after the first branch. Then I bent the trunk slightly to conform with the branch that would be wired up to form the entire top portion of the tree. The tree was about 3 1/2 feet. I think it's probably a little under 2 1/2 feet now. I used a 5.0 mm wire coupled with a 4.5 mm wire to get the bends I needed. Also, the tree was wrapped with a sort of black electrical tape to protect the bark. The tape was purchased at the nursery last year.
I will post more pics when I get the top pruned and wired... I will repot this tree next season into a bonsai pot, probably over sized...At that point, it would have been in this grow pot for about 3 years.
The red indicates where the chop was made. The blue is how it will be wired and position and with some new growth.
Do you agree with my vision for this tree??
Rob
I ended up chopping the tree right after the first branch. Then I bent the trunk slightly to conform with the branch that would be wired up to form the entire top portion of the tree. The tree was about 3 1/2 feet. I think it's probably a little under 2 1/2 feet now. I used a 5.0 mm wire coupled with a 4.5 mm wire to get the bends I needed. Also, the tree was wrapped with a sort of black electrical tape to protect the bark. The tape was purchased at the nursery last year.
I will post more pics when I get the top pruned and wired... I will repot this tree next season into a bonsai pot, probably over sized...At that point, it would have been in this grow pot for about 3 years.
The red indicates where the chop was made. The blue is how it will be wired and position and with some new growth.
Do you agree with my vision for this tree??
Rob