Vigorous in deed!!! I had to get down and cut roots that grew through the grow box slats into the ground through weed control fabric and rocks.If its still growing vigorous like last year, you could probably start setting some branching and taking the strength out of the top.
I am a recent Mari live subscriber!!! Great information. Im in my 3rd year of practicing bonsai and I'm STILL studying and learning. I do consider myself lucky so far 100% survival rate out of 20+ trees collected. The refinement techniques I'm sure will come.Do you subscribe to Mirai Live? Time to learn proper development, refinement, sustainable development techniques. So far have been very fortunate with trees survival.
Thank you, I actually had to come back to this post to remind me how far it has come after our conversation. I'm actually quite happy about the 2 yr progress this tree has made although I still imagine this tree with much tighter and more ramification. Grateful, inspired and optimisticAfter seeing this tree in person and now reading this post and seeing the pics of it at collection I think it has come along way in 2 years congrats.
As for the name idk I don't create the horticultural name for the ants I just call them what they're identified as scientifically/horticulturaly. As for this hornbeam I've actually in the 2 years of growing this tree have had great results of back budding after allowing the tree to just grow and pruning after the branches have turned woody and lignified. With the addition of fertz This thing gets BUUUSHY!!! My newbness to the art of bonsai and fear of cutting has held me back a good bit but I will get there eventually I guessHopefully this isn't off topic, but this thread made me realize why I cringe every time I see someone refer to Carpinus caroliniana as an "American hornbeam." In part, it's because no one outside of the bonsai community refers to them as hornbeams. I had seriously never heard it until I joined this forum. They're ironwood trees, or occasionally musclewood trees (since they're hard but rot fast like iron and have a rippled cross-section like someone with toned muscles).
Also, they don't behave like the Asian and European hornbeams we're used to seeing in bonsai. Ironwood is a true understory tree. It has a trunk that splits into branches at the top, maybe twelve to twenty feet in height. Hornbeams, at least in the pictures I've seen, are more shrub-like. Virtually every mature ironwood I've seen, hundreds if not thousands of them, has been attacked by borers, with large sections of the tree completely dead. They're quick to abort even a large branch or entire trunk to save the healthy parts of the tree. Accordingly, I'm hesitant to apply Walter Pall's methods to North American Carpinus, since they're fussy about pruning and tend to send out new shoots from the base of a pruned branch. I can't just chop a heavy branch and then ignore it for a while as it grows out. I have to remove unwanted buds as they pop up, since they'll suck vigor away from the branch I spent so much time thickening, ultimately leading to the branch's death. On ironwoods, unlike Walter Pall's oriental hornbeams, you're unlikely to get branches where you want them. Buds only reliably emerge at the base of an existing branch, (including where you've previously pruned one off). I've found it tricky to develop them, accordingly. Ironwood is not to be confused with Hornbeam.
Everyone except this community and Google, Wikipedia...Hopefully this isn't off topic, but this thread made me realize why I cringe every time I see someone refer to Carpinus caroliniana as an "American hornbeam." In part, it's because no one outside of the bonsai community refers to them as hornbeams. I had seriously never heard it until I joined this forum. They're ironwood trees, or occasionally musclewood trees (since they're hard but rot fast like iron and have a rippled cross-section like someone with toned muscles).
Also, they don't behave like the Asian and European hornbeams we're used to seeing in bonsai. Ironwood is a true understory tree. It has a trunk that splits into branches at the top, maybe twelve to twenty feet in height. Hornbeams, at least in the pictures I've seen, are more shrub-like. Virtually every mature ironwood I've seen, hundreds if not thousands of them, has been attacked by borers, with large sections of the tree completely dead. They're quick to abort even a large branch or entire trunk to save the healthy parts of the tree. Accordingly, I'm hesitant to apply Walter Pall's methods to North American Carpinus, since they're fussy about pruning and tend to send out new shoots from the base of a pruned branch. I can't just chop a heavy branch and then ignore it for a while as it grows out. I have to remove unwanted buds as they pop up, since they'll suck vigor away from the branch I spent so much time thickening, ultimately leading to the branch's death. On ironwoods, unlike Walter Pall's oriental hornbeams, you're unlikely to get branches where you want them. Buds only reliably emerge at the base of an existing branch, (including where you've previously pruned one off). I've found it tricky to develop them, accordingly. Ironwood is not to be confused with Hornbeam.