symbiotic1
Mame
I just acquired this characterful, field-grown oriental sweetgum from a trip to Lone Pine nursery in NorCal while visiting family for turkey day. It's losing all its leaves for winter at the moment.
I'm loving all the gnarly-ness of the base and the original trunk (possible Jin?), and it's showing some nice nebari at the base I can see just under the soil. There are two trunks growing right now though neither is that developed yet. The nursery had put the tree in the pictured pot two seasons ago to start training the roots for a bonsai pot.
I'd like to try to thicken up the trunks so I'm curious if I should just leave it in this pot to keep the roots more compact or should I repot it (in the spring) into a bigger pot, or the ground. Would the trunk take that much longer to thicken in its current pot vs. a much bigger pot?
OR would it be best to just start developing the branches and let the trunk just develop with it with only a modest increase in thickness?
Any other styling suggestions would be appreciated as well!
I'm loving all the gnarly-ness of the base and the original trunk (possible Jin?), and it's showing some nice nebari at the base I can see just under the soil. There are two trunks growing right now though neither is that developed yet. The nursery had put the tree in the pictured pot two seasons ago to start training the roots for a bonsai pot.
I'd like to try to thicken up the trunks so I'm curious if I should just leave it in this pot to keep the roots more compact or should I repot it (in the spring) into a bigger pot, or the ground. Would the trunk take that much longer to thicken in its current pot vs. a much bigger pot?
OR would it be best to just start developing the branches and let the trunk just develop with it with only a modest increase in thickness?
Any other styling suggestions would be appreciated as well!
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