Giga
Masterpiece
Looks great!
Do you think there's a chance that top portion could have been ground layered? Or is it just too small?So I started by removing the section that bothered me the most.
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Air-layered, but yes. And probably would have made a good Shohin, but I’m more concerned with making this a better Bonsai than having yet another trident maple?.Do you think there's a chance that top portion could have been ground layered? Or is it just too small?
Great looking tree, by the way! Well done!
Thanks for the thread Brian, tomorrow i start lifting tridents from the grow beds to begin the process. 7 are four year olds and 42 are three year olds. Moving from colandars set in the grow beds to Anderson flats for root progression. i can see i have a lot of work ahead.Sealed up all the cuts, and struggled to get a good photo of it. Wonder if that means I’ll end up chopping it yet again. Hopefully the next trunk section will smooth out and create a better line.
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Yes, only scratch it to the point where the cambium is exposed:Looks lovely, an elegant monster.
I have read before about scratching up the callus healing over a scar, in order to help "activate" it a bit more in to healing further. It looks like you only scratched it quite lightly, will it really do that much help?
Thinking I should do it for a Maple of mine, Acer P, its trunk scar is rolling in, maybe has less than 1/4 of an inch of deadwood showing inside.