Literati training !

[bonhe]

Cork elm
Before


After trim

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[bonhe]

The cork elm in #21


I love elm for its excellent response to literati training
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[bonhe]

This morning

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[bonhe]

I brought this cork elm out yesterday to prune.
Before


After


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[bonhe]

The cork elm
Before


After


The lower trunk


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[bonhe]

I worked on these pine today.
They are 13 yo KBP
Before


I cut its lowest branch on 5/2/21 and did autograft on the cut surface at that time . Today .


After taking off the tape. It is healing well!



After pruning, removing the wires and some of old needles .


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[bonhe]

Another 13 yo KBP
Before


I also did autograft on it on 5/2/21. Today


removing the tape


the skin graft is healing well


after pruning, removing the wires and some of old needles.


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[bonhe]

I almost lost this tree this August because of severe dehydration! After came back home from 10 - day trip, I found all of leaves turned brown dry!
It recovers well at this time .


A lot of dead leaves were still on the branches


The tree was cleaned up and pruned back


the lowest branch was removed


I will transplant it into the round pot this winter
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[Carol 83]

I almost lost this tree this August because of severe dehydration! After came back home from 10 - day trip, I found all of leaves turned brown dry!
It recovers well at this time .
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A lot of dead leaves were still on the branches
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The tree was cleaned up and pruned back
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the lowest branch was removed
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I will transplant it into the round pot this winter
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I'm glad it made it!

 

[bonhe]

I'm glad it made it!

Thanks Carol. In my opinion, elm is very resilient to dehydration. About 5 years ago, I also had one elm survived from severe dehydration!
However, I must pay more attention to the elm while prepping my summer vacations from now on !
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[Colorado]

Inspiring thread! Your point about trunk to height ratio is a good one. I love to see the Elms - I don’t see many deciduous literati.

I have a tall elm that I was going to chop back to about 6”. I had planned literati, then decided to chop, but now after seeing this thread I will attempt literati

Thanks for sharing, so beautiful.

 

[BrightsideB]

Glad your elm bounced back! I used to live in riverside it can get hot! Looks great and cool to see deciduous literati. They all are really nice!

 

[Michael P]

So glad I saw this discussion! A Chinese elm root cutting has decent nebari and trunk base, but I had no clue what to do with the rest of it. Wanting to try a bunjin, I now have a direction.

 

[bonhe]

Inspiring thread! Your point about trunk to height ratio is a good one. I love to see the Elms - I don’t see many deciduous literati.

I have a tall elm that I was going to chop back to about 6”. I had planned literati, then decided to chop, but now after seeing this thread I will attempt literati

Thanks for sharing, so beautiful.

Thanks for your kind words! Elm is one of a few deciduous trees that fits very well with literati! You just let it go freely for a few years. When its height is enough, then we can start training.

Glad your elm bounced back! I used to live in riverside it can get hot! Looks great and cool to see deciduous literati. They all are really nice!

Thanks .
Yeah, growing bonsai in Inland Empire is so hard. It needs a lot of attention to keep trees healthy!

So glad I saw this discussion! A Chinese elm root cutting has decent nebari and trunk base, but I had no clue what to do with the rest of it. Wanting to try a bunjin, I now have a direction.

Yes. Elm is very easy to propagate and grow for bonsai. I am glad to know that you will try literati on elm. It is so much fun
P/s: at first, just concentrate on training the trunk line, don’t care much about the branches. When you are satisfied with the trunk, then you can remove all of branches which you don’t want. You have to do this action in winter same time when you do transplant the tree. The new shoots will emerge every where along the trunk line. At that time you can keep whatever shoots you wants and remove the rest. From that time , you start training these branches . It should take you about 4-5 years to get nice branching system! Good luck to your project.
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[Milly]

Lovely trees Bonhe.
Please explain 'autograft' to me.

 

[JudyB]

Bonhe literati time capsule. Thanks for the journey.

 

[bonhe]

Lovely trees Bonhe.
Please explain 'autograft' to me.

I am so sorry for very late response! I don’t know why I did not see the notices when I signed into my account!!!
Autograft means grafting a tissue from one place to another on the same individual’s body. Here I was talking about skin graft . Sorry for confusion!

Bonhe literati time capsule. Thanks for the journey.

Thanks Judy and you are very welcome
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[bonhe]

The elm was in this morning.


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[bonhe]

These small California junipers have been trained for literati since 4/2021. It will be long term project

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[bonhe]

I will turn this ginkgo into literati style soon ! It is residing in a tiny orchid pot at this time .


There is a heavenly bamboo growing in the same pot !!!


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