Segio, You are doing an excellent job training your Yatsubusa Chinese Elm bonsai!
Thought I’d show you my Yatsubusa Chinese Elm, which is the mother stock plant of thousands of new specimens. The plant is one of my cuttings and the B&W photo was taken when I planted the tree next to the garage (18’ tall) around 1990. So this the size one can expect from a tree only about 35 years old, planted in a garden. And, don't forget I live in the frigid north Upstate New York. Just think what the size it would attain in warmer area....
Note the tall height and heavy trunk with rough corking bark. Periodically I remove branches 8-10 feet in length which shade the bonsai below.
Many years ago I had a Golden Japanese Back Pine garden tree planted to the right of the Yatsubusa Chinese Elm. I gave it to a friend for his garden and when dug the tree he accidentally cut off one of the surface roots from the elm. Well, it became an ideal root cutting and trained it to a cascade bonsai. It is on my right in a square dark blue Chinese cascade pot.
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