misfit11
Omono
Here's a tree that I've had for a while but have never posted. I originally had it growing in the ground for a few years making chops every once in a while. I'd never worked with Olives before and quickly realized that although it was trunking up relatively fast, it wasn't rolling over the cuts at all. Anyway, after it's 4 years or whatever in the ground I dug it up and started training it as bonsai. It spent a couple more years in a training pot as I started working on the branch structure. Due to the few large cuts I'd done as trunk chops, I had always intended on doing some carving to add some interest and hide the large cut wounds. In 2015 or so it made it into it's first bonsai pot.
Flash forward a few years of neglect to 2019 and I finally decided to give my bonsai hobby some attention. The other day I did some trimming and branch selection. Today I did some further work on the tree and as I was doing so I stumbled on some rotted wood in the back of the tree where some of the trunk chops and sacrifice branches had been. I began removing some of this rotten material and soon realized a good portion of the back of the tree was completely rotten!! I carved out as much of the soft, pulpy wood that I could and applied wood hardner in order to preserve the rest of the deadwood. I then repotted him.
When life gives you lemons. Make lemonade.
Flash forward a few years of neglect to 2019 and I finally decided to give my bonsai hobby some attention. The other day I did some trimming and branch selection. Today I did some further work on the tree and as I was doing so I stumbled on some rotted wood in the back of the tree where some of the trunk chops and sacrifice branches had been. I began removing some of this rotten material and soon realized a good portion of the back of the tree was completely rotten!! I carved out as much of the soft, pulpy wood that I could and applied wood hardner in order to preserve the rest of the deadwood. I then repotted him.
When life gives you lemons. Make lemonade.