Brom style step by step

[Matte91]

Hello.

Can someone please explain to me how to make a broom style, perhaps a step by step guide.

I read a lot of the broom elm and maple progression threads in here. But i'm still unsure how to do it.

I know that I should place all the branches in a V and put some raffia on. But what to do next?

I hope someone can explain me the progress after making the V in details what I should do with it the next years.

Thank you!

 

[Hartinez]

@markyscott has a good one here.

Chuhin Broom Elm

With spring growth in full swing in Houston, I'm in the busiest time of the year. Trees in development are fertilized heavily - solid fertilizer on top and liquid fertilizer every weekend. Trees are pushing huge growth - it seems like they change every time I look away for a minute. That...

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[Hartinez]

Also @Mellow Mullet has a good one

Trying To Make A Broom

I have way too many projects, but after reading @markyscott 's post on his broom, I kinda got hooked. I hope Mrs Mullet doesn't put me in time out for starting another project. . I have had this elm that was in a batch of seedlings (I mean really just a seedling, only about two inches tall)...

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[Matte91]

I already read those threads, and they are great. But as said i'm still unsure how the progress are. Forexempel:
How much to cut first time
How much to cut second time etc.
Should I defoliate
And so on.

I was hoping someone could explain how to make a broom in step by step.

Harry Harrington has made a guide to make informal upright. I'm not saying that someone should make a just as detailed. But just so you know what I mean.

Developing Deciduous Bonsai Branch Structures: Part 1 – Bonsai4Me

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[leatherback]

I think this is exactly where the challenge lays.. Getting enough of a feel for the tree to understand what is needed when. Can you really create a step-by-step manual for growing a bonsai?

Note.. I have been struggling with the same question some 2 years ago: https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/new-zelkova-broom.38034/

I see you write "create a V". I have seen that more often. I think you refer to the "end of the trunk" where you cut it. Here I always took the drawings and tried to look in 3D: I think the cut is not a V, but more a dip in the middle of the cut trunk, a depression, allowing the new branches-all around the cut site- to expand inwards more than outwards, reducing the bulge you would expect otherwise.

 

[Matte91]

Basically what i'm asking is how you get from this:

To this:

Hope someone can explain it to me. Sorry for borrowing the pictures.

 

[KiwiPlantGuy]

Hi,
I can try but might be wrong also. 2 years into my broom making and it is all guesswork plus plant feel. Does your instinct say what to do?

Anyway, drill a hole in the middleof the trunk to stop the spreading of the callous outwards.

Cut a “V” - Cut a V between two of the secondary trunks. As in you can see the V when looking at your tree horizontally. This is to make the trunks not look like they come from the cut area.

And, yep that’s about all I know.
Charles

 

[KiwiPlantGuy]

Hi,
And a great thread I found lately (as I can’t figure out how to drop a link on my phone)
is titled - Zelkowa #1 by @Walter Pall.
Basically shows progress over the last 30 years. Recent photos show the creation steps really well.
Charles

 

[HENDO]

Hi,
And a great thread I found lately (as I can’t figure out how to drop a link on my phone)
is titled - Zelkowa #1 by @Walter Pall.
Basically shows progress over the last 30 years. Recent photos show the creation steps really well.
Charles

This is a neat thread thanks for sharing:

Zelkowa #1

A broom in the making. Some progress in three years.

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[Matte91]

Thanks for sharing