Choke cherry change up

[aml1014]

Hey nuts,
Here's another one of my works rejects that no one even looked at for 3 years. I took it home last year and started wiring it into a lame weeping tree. Well I've never been satisfied with its taper or size even so today I did a little change up.

Here's before, it was about 22 inches tall(and looked awful).
It was so tall I need bamboo to support it which is ridiculous for a bonsai. So I chopped it to the first branch and decided to continue with the weeping style.
It's a cute little stick in a pot. Quite the feminine tree.
Let here your thoughts on this lowly little cherry.

Aaron

 

[sorce]

Good thing you got growing covered!

I gotta a new name for a pitch, In gonna have my son throw it all weekend.

The Choke Cherry Change!

It'll be Choke Cherry to keep an wondering!

That's the best name for a pitch ever!

Thanks!

Sorce

 

[sorce]

Fast balls 1 And 2....
Banana slices....

Inside backem off pitch...Ice cream...
Outside try to get em reaching...whip cream.

Choke Cherry Change....Strike three...

Baseball Sundae!

Sorce

 

[TomB]

Let here your thoughts on this lowly little cherry.

If you want to develop it in an exposed root style, which looks like an option here, I think you need to consider the ratio of trunk length to roots. In most convincing examples I've seen of that style, the roots actually make up most of the length of the trunk (google image search for 'neagari bonsai'). IF this species will back bud on a bare trunk, which I don't know, you could consider chopping it at around the point where the trunk crosses the horizontal part of the greenhouse frame in the background. Then work on developing some twigs, work the roots a bit more, and you could end up with a nice little flowering bonsai. That's about the best approach I can see for this material, which is otherwise unpromising to my eye.

 

[sorce]

Yeah...I agree...

I would almost cover them roots up a bit...
Cuz when they fatten out some...this could be a dope exposed root.

Sorce

 

[Carol 83]

Fast balls 1 And 2....
Banana slices....

Inside backem off pitch...Ice cream...
Outside try to get em reaching...whip cream.

Choke Cherry Change....Strike three...

Baseball Sundae!

Sorce

Are you drunk

 

[sorce]

Are you drunk

Baseball drunk!

We just went undefeated for the regular season.
Jag coach on the other team was trying to get in my son's head in the Champ game, ended up being a fiasco(full story by request), but he shut em out none the less....and jacked a line drive homer...they were pissed!

Sorce

 

[Carol 83]

Baseball drunk!

We just went undefeated for the regular season.
Jag coach on the other team was trying to get in my son's head in the Champ game, ended up being a fiasco(full story by request), but he shut em out none the less....and jacked a line drive homer...they were pissed!

Sorce

Well, good for him, I thought you were having a flashback or something....

 

[aml1014]

Yeah...I agree...

I would almost cover them roots up a bit...
Cuz when they fatten out some...this could be a dope exposed root.

Sorce

If you want to develop it in an exposed root style, which looks like an option here, I think you need to consider the ratio of trunk length to roots. In most convincing examples I've seen of that style, the roots actually make up most of the length of the trunk (google image search for 'neagari bonsai'). IF this species will back bud on a bare trunk, which I don't know, you could consider chopping it at around the point where the trunk crosses the horizontal part of the greenhouse frame in the background. Then work on developing some twigs, work the roots a bit more, and you could end up with a nice little flowering bonsai. That's about the best approach I can see for this material, which is otherwise unpromising to my eye.

That's a good point, I'll bury them when I'm done feeding the trees, shut takes me like 6 hours I also wouldn't feel good about chopping this thing down low considering the leaf size, I wanna keep it at least slightly in scale.

Aaron

 

[sorce]

That's a good point, I'll bury them when I'm done feeding the trees, shut takes me like 6 hours I also wouldn't feel good about chopping this thing down low considering the leaf size, I wanna keep it at least slightly in scale.

Aaron

I was wondering a out the leaf size...
I didn't think they were so big...

No reduction chance?

Reiterate....

Good thing you got growing covered!

Sorce

 

[aml1014]

I was wondering a out the leaf size...
I didn't think they were so big...

No reduction chance?

Reiterate....

Good thing you got growing covered!

Sorce

They'll reduce about a third in the year I've worked it, but with more time I would imagine they'd shrink with more ramification and once it's in a pot.

Yes sorce, I'm very good at growing things why do you keep saying it? Lol



Aaron

 

[sorce]

Dat sumbytch needs it!

Sorce

 

[aml1014]

Dat sumbytch needs it!

Sorce

Agreed lol

Aaron

 

[aml1014]

Little bastard is going to bloom this year...wasn't expecting it, but I'll take it!
Aaron

 

[aml1014]

Repotted today, there were already new roots after @sorce told me to raise the soil level. Since this will be a literati Imy not worried about trunk growth, but I did want more exposed roots so I left the soil level raised.
Cute pot my fiancé got me for now.

Aaron