Mellow Mullet
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SO glad to read this, yes I fully agree with you and in fact I see it ALL the time (trees that still need structural girthening but are in 'show' containers...since I never bought an already-finished bonsai, I don't have any 'show' containers just grow containers...how I understood it *should* be but there's a massive % of trees that aren't done being developed but still shoved in small pots, that BC was certainly one! I'd only used it to demonstrate that specific type of horizontal-wounding since it was an extreme example)
In the interim I browsed (my annual browsing) my BC's folder a bit and @rockm 's beastly beauty here caught my eye as precisely what I was conveying w/ the others (only, as he should, he's got it in an appropriate container...well if we consider solid-walls appropriate still
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....frickin' wow what a looker, not even just 'has a knee' but "has fluting appropriate-to the knee", totally awesome catch there @rock, I would LOVE updates on this guy it gives me some hope because I can certainly see a lil inverse going on at that wound site, nevermind that such quality stock warrants updates anyways so if at all able I'd love to see a pic (or link, if it's already elsewhere)
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While not precisely the same, I found something fascinating Re wounding on BC's that I'm hoping @Mellow Mullet can help me understand, I've got these pics of yours Mellow:
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It appears you remove mostly bark but I would LOVE to know any&everything you can tell me about this....BC's, in my experience, will swell in any spot you stare too long. I literally score/scratch my BC's in spots where I want thickening or better taper...but what you did here, so far as I knew it would cause a bigger callousing which, obviously, wouldn't be something you'd be aiming for!
Have tried removing areas where there was an especially thick callous on the side of the trunk from a prior branch's removal, try to remove more deadwood & "try creating a deeper hollow for it to roll-into" but no matter what I do it seemed to inevitably just cause thickening so I now just use that principle for thickening, there ^ it appears you're using it for thinning a callous, I gotta know what's what on that
I think if you would have read the text that went with the pix you would have had an explanation. You are over thinking it, I had chopped it earlier but never sloped the chop. The tree had started to heal over the flat chop, I just sloped it.
