CrisisM0de
Yamadori
Hello,
I posted about this tree a couple days ago, but I have done a ton of reading since then and I wanted to make a post that is - hopefully - more thoughtful and educated. Anyway, I picked up this pine and was not sure what to do with it and was feeling pretty aimless. I think I have a plan for it today, but I do not know if its feasible or if the tree is even worth the effort. So, hopefully I can get some feedback on my plan and to discuss whether or not that plan is viable.
My understanding is that my bonsai is going to come from the bottom of this tree as seen in the second picture. To balance vigor and steer some growth toward the bottom of the tree, I need to remove needles from the blue areas I scribbled over and cut the branches off at the red lines. This will leave the tops to act as sacrificial branches over the next several years until I chop them near the spots that I noted in the second picture. I know that it will look very different in the following years, but as there are no branches in the middle... the general chopping spot will still be somewhere in that area. I have read I can needle pluck at the end of summer and into autumn and I think the tree can probably handle the removal of the extra branches? I would also think that I can wire these bottom branches and wire the trunks to guide them into the directions I indicated with the green arrows.
Thanks again!
I posted about this tree a couple days ago, but I have done a ton of reading since then and I wanted to make a post that is - hopefully - more thoughtful and educated. Anyway, I picked up this pine and was not sure what to do with it and was feeling pretty aimless. I think I have a plan for it today, but I do not know if its feasible or if the tree is even worth the effort. So, hopefully I can get some feedback on my plan and to discuss whether or not that plan is viable.
My understanding is that my bonsai is going to come from the bottom of this tree as seen in the second picture. To balance vigor and steer some growth toward the bottom of the tree, I need to remove needles from the blue areas I scribbled over and cut the branches off at the red lines. This will leave the tops to act as sacrificial branches over the next several years until I chop them near the spots that I noted in the second picture. I know that it will look very different in the following years, but as there are no branches in the middle... the general chopping spot will still be somewhere in that area. I have read I can needle pluck at the end of summer and into autumn and I think the tree can probably handle the removal of the extra branches? I would also think that I can wire these bottom branches and wire the trunks to guide them into the directions I indicated with the green arrows.
Thanks again!