Ulmus × hollandica ‘Jacqueline Hillier’

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I have this little J. H. elm. The goal is a 25cm high tree with round canopy.
I've been working on it since 2019.
Had to remove a few big branches since then. Carved the biggest scar and scoring the others every spring. They are healing quite well, but considering hollowing out the 2nd biggest which is above the carved one and make a tunnel like connection between the two.
Want to thicken the first branch, so let a runnner grow freely.
It needs a branch to the back. This year a twig started to grow on the right spot but it is relatively weak. Trimmed the sorrounding branches to give it space and light.
This spring I am planning to work on the roots and repotting it to a smaller container, maybe a bonsai pot.
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I have this little J. H. elm. The goal is a 25cm high tree with round canopy.
I've been working on it since 2019.
Had to remove a few big branches since then. Carved the biggest scar and scoring the others every spring. They are healing quite well, but considering hollowing out the 2nd biggest which is above the carved one and make a tunnel like connection between the two.
Want to thicken the first branch, so let a runnner grow freely.
It needs a branch to the back. This year a twig started to grow on the right spot but it is relatively weak. Trimmed the sorrounding branches to give it space and light.
This spring I am planning to work on the roots and repotting it to a smaller container, maybe a bonsai pot.
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Very nice! Do you have pictures from before or when you started working on the tree?
 

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Very nice! Do you have pictures from before or when you started working on the tree?

Thanks!

I have no picture before the first cut. It looked like all nursery JHE around here: slingshot like 50 cm bush with a short (~7cm) trunk.
Found one from spring of 2019 when it leafed out after the first shaping.

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This was a month later, they grow like crazy:

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Spring 2020, before repot:

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2020 repot:

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2020 potted and shaped. Actually I made a new slingshot 😂 Wanted to use the left brach as new leader and shorten the right one to be the first branch. But changed my mind later and cut off the left branch:

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2021, repot. The Airpot+zeolite combo worked very well, it had loads of fibrous roots.

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2021 summer. First brach from the previous picture was cut off. A shoot appeared next to the big carving. This is the first branch now which I am thickening atm. The first and second on the left are the second branch and the leader now. The rest was used to thicken the leader and was cut off later.

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What I learned:
They grow and thicken quickly.
Branches must be wired early because they become brittle fast.
After removing lots of branches it explode like crazy and become a mess. It is very tempting to remove the unwanted ones, but doing so kills the tree. Do not touch it at this stage because all of the tree energy is pushed into these shoots. I killed two of them like this...
 
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