tamarix in training

[c54fun]

Cool looking tree.

 

[bonhe]

After transplanted this afternoon.


Bonhe

 

[Anthony]

Really beautiful.
Now if we could get results like that on our tamarix.
Thanks for showing.
Good Day
Anthony

 

[bonhe]

Thank you, Anthony.
bonhe

 

[Cadillactaste]

Inspiration...for sure yours are stunning!. I have one that only has one live vein. The arctic cold three winters did it in when it was in my landscape. But...it's far from anything. It was very weak. Finally repotted it into bonsai substrate. Didn't want to totally mess with much roots with it declining. Was hoping to get lots of branching to choose from when I cut it back. But, got some at the tip...and one in the back halfway down on the thinner branch. I see a carving project in my furture. But...if you can offer any direction as to the species I'm all ears/eyes. Really hoping as it strengthens. It will bud closer to that trunk. In the meantime. I think I'm going to let it run to gain strength. Think that is the right direction?

 

[bonhe]

Thank you Cadillactaste.
I can see you have a very nice specimen.
Tamarix loves water, fertilizer and sunlight. I agree that you need to let it grow strongly before any training. Don't worry, the new shoots will emerge every where along the live vein later on. However, with your tree, I think the current branch is more than enough for design because it should be considered as a continuity of main trunk. You can start training of the new branches popping out from the current branch in the near future.
Bonhe

 

[Cadillactaste]

Thank you Cadillactaste.
I can see you have a very nice specimen.
Tamarix loves water, fertilizer and sunlight. I agree that you need to let it grow strongly before any training. Don't worry, the new shoots will emerge every where along the live vein later on. However, with your tree, I think the current branch is more than enough for design because it should be considered as a continuity of main trunk. You can start training of the new branches popping out from the current branch in the near future.
Bonhe

Thanks! It's in slightly organic to help with the water needs. (Wee Tree substrate) thinking of tossing some BioGold onto the top. Was repotted coming into spring. Before bud break...cut it back as well hoping to encourage budding. Since its not budded in the years since collection. It really was a weak unhealthy tree. But I think it appreciated the new shoes and substrate. It's offering more than ever in the past since collected which makes me happy. It's my Frankenstein tree...very raw...but, I'm curious if I have it in me to take something this raw to the next level. Thus...when my husband was planning on tossing it in the compost area at the ravine...I snagged it and tossed it into a larger nursery pot.

I appreciate your sound direction...so I will less second guess myself. I will allow it to regain vigor...maybe toss some wire to make an arch on the branch budding that is there. Not sure if I want squiggly arches or simple ones. Need to decide that as a major factor in a design. I thought squiggly arches...since it's not a refined trunk. But...who knows.

Thanks again! Your soecimens...are some of the finest I've seen. Much appreciated your sharing them with us.

 

[bonhe]

Cadillactaste,
It's my Frankenstein tree...very raw...but, I'm curious if I have it in me to take something this raw to the next level.
If you do it right with good environment, this tree will turn into an excellent bonsai in 5 - 6 years.

Thus...when my husband was planning on tossing it in the compost area at the ravine...I snagged it and tossed it into a larger nursery pot.
Excellent.

. Not sure if I want squiggly arches or simple ones. Need to decide that as a major factor in a design. I thought squiggly arches...since it's not a refined trunk. But...who knows.
I would use squiggly arches.

Thanks again! Your soecimens...are some of the finest I've seen. Much appreciated your sharing them with us.
Thank you for your kind words.
Bonhe

 

[Cadillactaste]

Sweet! Thanks again...sorry for hijacking your thread.

Your trees are inspiration to strive to make mine...more. I can't believe you can find such stock. Mine when I got it for landscape had to be ordered in. I was told it was a Victorian shrub...and got lost along the way in one's not using it as much anymore. My material was not near as amazing as yours are. Are they collected pieces? Or actual nursery stock?

 

[bonhe]

"Cadillactaste, post: :
Sweet! Thanks again...sorry for hijacking your thread.
Don't worry about it.

Your trees are inspiration to strive to make mine...more. I can't believe you can find such stock. Mine when I got it for landscape had to be ordered in. I was told it was a Victorian shrub...and got lost along the way in one's not using it as much anymore. My material was not near as amazing as yours are. Are they collected pieces? Or actual nursery stock?
Thanks again. All of my tamarix are from the cutting more than 15 years. My teacher, Mr. Richard Ota, trained this one at that time. He is an expert in tamarix training. One of his tamarix bonsai is in Pacific Rim Bonsai at this time.
Bonhe

 

[Cadillactaste]

From cuttings...THAT is proof in the pudding to dedication and talent in the direction he took them. Very very cool! Very cool that his tree is in Pacific Rim Bonsai as well! Now...it makes sense why yours looks so amazing in where you have taken them as well.

 

[aml1014]

From cuttings...THAT is proof in the pudding to dedication and talent in the direction he took them. Very very cool! Very cool that his tree is in Pacific Rim Bonsai as well! Now...it makes sense why yours looks so amazing in where you have taken them as well.

I have a little seedling I found this spring in a plant at work and potted it separately, it's grown like 10" in the past 2 weeks! My teacher has one from a cutting that's about 15 also, very cool, and fast growing trees! My teacher submerges hers like a BC.

Aaron

 

[bonhe]

From cuttings...THAT is proof in the pudding to dedication and talent in the direction he took them. Very very cool! Very cool that his tree is in Pacific Rim Bonsai as well! Now...it makes sense why yours looks so amazing in where you have taken them as well.

I will tell my teacher about your comment . To get a nice movement trunk line of tamarix, you have to make it from small cutting and start training it as it still young. If you wait until the branch's size about 0.4 cm, it is no way to bend it. Because its wood is so brittle, it will be broken and died!!!
Yes, you have very patient to work on the tamarix. It requires constant attention in growing season. It is why I always tell my friends who love tamarix bonsai that if you don't like someone, just give him/her a tamarix to train for bonsai, he/she will be severely suffered from that gift

I have a little seedling I found this spring in a plant at work and potted it separately, it's grown like 10" in the past 2 weeks! My teacher has one from a cutting that's about 15 also, very cool, and fast growing trees! My teacher submerges hers like a BC.

Aaron

Yes, I know someone in my area puts stoppers in the pot's drainage holes, so that the water can be stayed in the pot! I never tried this.
Seedling will take a little longer. Just ask you teacher give you a branch when she pruning the tree. Put that cutting into the water jar, you will see it roots out in 1 -2 weeks. It loves water. It is the way my teacher propagated his stock. Nowadays, he is too old to take care tamarix besides other trees, he does not propagate tamarix any more.

Bonhe