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Help with picking front. I see 2. Style maybe weeping. The needles drop.
Help with picking front. I see 2. Style maybe weeping. The needles drop.
I am also iOne more thought
Gray Owl is a cultivar of Juniper virginiana. As a general rule, J. virginiana is not the easiest of Junipers to use for bonsai. It prefers to be in very upright styles. I would not try to make a cascade with J. virginiana. There are also tricks about when to repot J. virginiana, they dislike being repotted. Use an all inorganic mix, so the next time you repot this you can leave it alone for 5 or more years at a time.
Read through the Juniper sub-forum and in particular look at the posts about J. virginiana, Eastern red cedar. Ignore the people that say ''it can not be used to make bonsai'', but do accept it is a difficult species to do bonsai with. It is not material for a new beginner.
The cultivar 'Gray Owl' may have some genetic anomalies that will make it easier to use for bonsai than its ''wild type'' parents, but I am not certain on this. Read and get ideas.
I am also adding AI Keppler's beginners tips.One more thought
Gray Owl is a cultivar of Juniper virginiana. As a general rule, J. virginiana is not the easiest of Junipers to use for bonsai. It prefers to be in very upright styles. I would not try to make a cascade with J. virginiana. There are also tricks about when to repot J. virginiana, they dislike being repotted. Use an all inorganic mix, so the next time you repot this you can leave it alone for 5 or more years at a time.
Read through the Juniper sub-forum and in particular look at the posts about J. virginiana, Eastern red cedar. Ignore the people that say ''it can not be used to make bonsai'', but do accept it is a difficult species to do bonsai with. It is not material for a new beginner.
The cultivar 'Gray Owl' may have some genetic anomalies that will make it easier to use for bonsai than its ''wild type'' parents, but I am not certain on this. Read and get ideas.
sounds just like mine, it did take a slight root pruning well to get it to a training pot. I am still waiting for inspiration in its future direction. So far I am under the impression that it will be hard or impossible to form pads on it so it will have to be something different.Funny @sorce already said this in my thread of my own grey owl, there seem to be two different species to go with the grey owl name the ERC and juniperus virginiana "grey owl" they seem to be different.
Heres a thread on mine:
https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/juniperus-virginniana-grey-owl.32484/
I know from my specimen that the foliage is kinda leggy and requires allot of work to tighten it up but it will never be as tight as the regular chinensis or shimpaku foliage so a slightly larger tree suits the species best
sounds just like mine, it did take a slight root pruning well to get it to a training pot. I am still waiting for inspiration in its future direction. So far I am under the impression that it will be hard or impossible to form pads on it so it will have to be something different.
lol, mine is doing nothing but pointing up. I have not looked at it in a couple months perhaps this am I will.It can be done, if you look in my thread the strong growing foliage is not leggy but nice tight scale foliage
The trick is to wire everything and make it point it up.
Then let grow untill the runners are about 2" to 3" long and prune them back continue
At least thats what i am instructed to do with mine by my teacher, a fellow student also has one that is some years ahead of mine and on his the pads slowly starting to take shape and tighten up
It just takes at least double the time as shimpaku or other tighter foliage juniper species
Have a thread with pics?lol, mine is doing nothing but pointing up. I have not looked at it in a couple months perhaps this am I will.
not yet, not much to look at yet, well the base is nice. Nursery stock.Have a thread with pics?