Just Sharing - Lingnan - Grow and Clip - Directional Pruming

[Anthony]

@Penjing-Darren ,

Bolero has already seen this.
Grow and Clip - Directional Pruning - no wires used.

From a small cutting

Soil is 1/3 all - 5 mm silica based gravel,
5 mm crushed red building brick - earthenware - holds water
aged compost

Placement - full sun
Good Day
Anthony

please note my cousin [ brother-in - law -nickname ] is a Fine Artist.
He does the training. I just water and weed.
The design preceeded the effort.
The Gmelina is hedging shrub, and is predictable in the response.




This is what is possible with Directional pruning
Shrub has the ability to trunk thicken in a large bonsai pot.
No ground growing needed.

 

[Warpig]

Nice ramification, but i think tree would benefit from just one or two less of the secondary branches.

 

[Penjing-Darren]

WOW thats seriously impressive. 10/10 all day. Thanks for sharing @Anthony. One-day when i'm big ill hopefully have a tree of that level. I have time in only 31. hehehe
Will say it again, Dam son i'm impressed!

If i practice C&G is it Penjing , Lingnan or both?

 

[Anthony]

@Warpig ,

good eye, want to look at another tree -

Just Sharing - ' Tropical Zelkova'---- Chlorophora tintoria

Good Day
Anthony


latest image - 2 years ago - shrub lost 2 branches.

 

[Tieball]

I like the full branching canopy. Nice to see a good example of directional pruning....it produces a natural looking tree like I’d see in nature.
Mighty fine!

 

[Tieball]

I want to learn more...through practice....about the clip and grow. How frequently do you “clip”? Do wait until the latest growth hardens off (leaves and branch wood) and then clip?

 

[Anthony]

@Tieball ,

for practice you will need about 10 to 20 - hedging plants
like the Boxwood. 12 inch tall plants.
Get them lush and observe when you prune, how the shoots
grow.

There are two books you might borrow from the library
by Hu Yunhua -
https://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Penjing-Miniature-Landscapes-1988-03-01/dp/B01FKRDHSO/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=hu+yunhua&qid=1568638664&s=gateway&sr=8-1

and

https://www.amazon.com/Penjing-Chinese-Miniature-Shanghai-1982-01-01/dp/B01LYHO3V2/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=hu+yunhua&qid=1568638664&s=gateway&sr=8-2

both books here are out on loan.
So I can't tell you the pages.

******I suggest borrow before buying.******

Easy technique to learn, just lots of practice.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[sorce]

How frequently do you “clip”?

I have been clipping my boxes before growth in spring, and before growth in summer.

This way they get all the energy possible from each growth spurt, as we are not forcing other new growth during the same growing period. Which further weakens the tree.



Dense.

Sorce

 

[sorce]

That forced growth also comes out on a branch that isn't as thick as it could be, so branch taper suffers too.

People are too concerned with making a tree do something.

I have moved to making it do nothing.

It works.

Sorce