Morganrich2
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I'm totally new to bonsai. I did once have a mallsai that I of course killed in about an hour, other than that no experience at all. So I'm surfing the internet and I come across a picture of a Sharps Pygmy bonsai that I simply must have in my life. Down side, it is award winning and probably priceless. Hmm plan B: grow my own.
So I jumped the gun and bought 2 one year old Sharps Pygmies thinking that I would put them in a bonsai pot and get to work. I soon find out that a bonsai is not simply grown in a little pot and pruned to keep it small.
Am I understanding correctly that really my sharps needs to be in the yard growing until I deem that the trunks are the diameter I am looking for then I start chopping, tapering, pruning, root management and repotting?
But here is where my mind is blown….I could potentially buy like a 5 year old tree or shrub from the nursery and cut it down OR prune it into what I want!!?? What!!?? Really!!?? Is that how it really works – let it get like 3 or 4 feet tall, chop it to a nub and work with the re-growth?
So I jumped the gun and bought 2 one year old Sharps Pygmies thinking that I would put them in a bonsai pot and get to work. I soon find out that a bonsai is not simply grown in a little pot and pruned to keep it small.
Am I understanding correctly that really my sharps needs to be in the yard growing until I deem that the trunks are the diameter I am looking for then I start chopping, tapering, pruning, root management and repotting?
But here is where my mind is blown….I could potentially buy like a 5 year old tree or shrub from the nursery and cut it down OR prune it into what I want!!?? What!!?? Really!!?? Is that how it really works – let it get like 3 or 4 feet tall, chop it to a nub and work with the re-growth?