TP Shantung

[MACH5]

This one should look quite interesting once in a bonsai container. I'd let that bottom branch grow freely.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Thanks, Sergio. I'll follow your advice.

 

[Vin]

Ditto @MACH5. Yeah, what happened to the cascade direction? It looked to be progressing nicely then you cut the cascading branch back. Are you going a different direction with it?

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Ditto @MACH5. Yeah, what happened to the cascade direction? It looked to be progressing nicely then you cut the cascading branch back. Are you going a different direction with it?

I'm like the wind, Vin! Always changing directions. Just kiddin'. Still it will be a cascade of some sort. It just got a cut back, but this time I'll let branches thicken more as Sergio recommended. The lower branch should reach the same length as it did last year. Most of everything will need to be cut back at some point as the nodes are further apart than they should be.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

I get to be at home for now. More work later.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Wire still on. Did some foliage thinning today. Left all leaves alone on lower branch.

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[thumblessprimate1]

Didn't do much, but it looks different. Branches extended a little. Perhaps it's just settling.

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Back

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Lanky right now. I defoliated the tree when it had some fungus. Looking healthy now. Spraying some daconil as fungicide.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Five days later. Looking alright.

 

[my nellie]

I saw this tree just now!
This is great Martin!

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Looking rough this time of year. I think it'll pull through. I moved it out of full sun and put it under some shade cloth today. It already had a few buds swelling where leaves turned brown and had dropped.

 

[0soyoung]

SAD.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

SAD.

Yeah. I think it'll be ok.

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Completely defoliated of the spring foliage that turned brown. New leaves arriving. I did some pruning on nonessential branches for my own observation. I noticed the second flush last year was short, and that occurred in maybe early fall.

 

[AlainK]

Very nice.

Isn't it time to give it a "bonsai pot"?....

I've got a couple of "shantung maples", 2-3 yrs-old, and I find your post quite ineresting. Thanks for posting.

 

[AlainK]

New leaves arriving.

Didn't read the latest posts: don't give up!

(but repot it in the spring, I think it needs new soil....)

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Very nice.

Isn't it time to give it a "bonsai pot"?....

I've got a couple of "shantung maples", 2-3 yrs-old, and I find your post quite ineresting. Thanks for posting.

Bonsai pot! Never! ? I'm slow to get my trees into bonsai pots. May in the next 5 years it'll happen. Thanks!

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Y

Didn't read the latest posts: don't give up!

(but repot it in the spring, I think it needs new soil....)

Yeah, you could be right about new soil.

 

[AlainK]

Bonsai pot! Never! ? I'm slow to get my trees into bonsai pots.

I do understand that

 

[thumblessprimate1]

Leaves coming out.