Syltis
Seedling
Hi!
I just aquired a Chinese Elm from Norways only Bonsai Nursery, Taki Bonsai. I liked the trunk and the slight nebari. I have repotted it and plan to let it grow outside and settle this spring before I start working on the branches when it's leaves drop. The branches has been growing wild, so I am very excited to start cutting away crossing branches and begin forming a broom shape. All in due time.
As happy as I am with the trunk, it has some scarring and there seems to have been some rot as well, due to the tree having been grown in crap soil. Here are photos of the tree and it's scar.
I would love to be able to help the tree heal from this. After reading up a bit, I think an idea would be to scrape away the parts where there is some rot, as well as cut around and inside the scar and apply cut paste.
I am a noob though, so any thoughts and advice is very much appreciated. Also any advice on the tree in general is always fun.
I just aquired a Chinese Elm from Norways only Bonsai Nursery, Taki Bonsai. I liked the trunk and the slight nebari. I have repotted it and plan to let it grow outside and settle this spring before I start working on the branches when it's leaves drop. The branches has been growing wild, so I am very excited to start cutting away crossing branches and begin forming a broom shape. All in due time.
As happy as I am with the trunk, it has some scarring and there seems to have been some rot as well, due to the tree having been grown in crap soil. Here are photos of the tree and it's scar.
I would love to be able to help the tree heal from this. After reading up a bit, I think an idea would be to scrape away the parts where there is some rot, as well as cut around and inside the scar and apply cut paste.
I am a noob though, so any thoughts and advice is very much appreciated. Also any advice on the tree in general is always fun.