Weird Clump Bittersweet Yamadori

[SeanS]

How are bonsai made like these ones ?

Young shoots/whips are wired up and twisted, then allowed to grow and thicken up

 

[SeanS]

Oh like how some people do the coco fiber for root over rock . Also how are they shaped like the first picture(of the bonsai pics I posted)? Or is it found like that ?

Not coco fibre, sphagnum moss

 

[Pj86]

How are bonsai made like these ones ?

 

[sorce]

How is this yamadori and what should I look out for in the future ?

I think it's has good movement from the base.

The only thing perfectly wrong, which is good cuz it makes it easy to explain, is your trunk heights according to thickness are backwards.

You want the skinniest shortest, and the fattest tallest. This isn't a rule that is easily broken, until you have more than 7 trunks.

The problem you will encounter if you don't flip it soon, is your possible budding area is backwards as well, so the skinny one will grow faster, and the thick one slow, so soon, you will have 3 trunk of all the same size, and lose that favored added dimension to the composition.

The roots won't mind light, but that container will fall apart by the end of May, so I'd duct tape it too!

Or maybe better, get that things rear closer to the center of a more appropriate container so you can continue to enhance the base, and this necessary left roots, that, long, and thick, will give the real impression they've been holding that lean.

Chizeers!

Sorce

 

[Pj86]

Also does this tree have any potential and what can it ever become ?

Yes it does have potential. Here are just a few of the possibilities.

 

[Njyamadori]

Yes it does have potential. Here are just a few of the possibilities.

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Thanks so much and I like your sketches . I definitely need to collect all spring so I have more trees that will turn out good . Also when will this start budding ? Just curious

 

[Pj86]

Thanks so much and I like your sketches . I definitely need to collect all spring so I have more trees that will turn out good . Also when will this start budding ? Just curious

If the collection was successful within a few weeks. The paste on the stubs will help avoid die back. Foliage might be weak at first and it is important to protect that foliage as it will be the way the tree regains the ability to produce food and regrow the roots. Once it has gained enough foliage the tree will begin to grow quickly again.

 

[Owen Reich]

How are bonsai made like these ones ?

Grafting in some cases. Wild trunk and selection of species grated onto stumps. At least that’s one way I saw in Japan.
Growing from scratch possible too.

 

[Owen Reich]

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Love this!

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Common names lead to much confusion. Your "bittersweet" is Celastrus, either Celastrus orbiculatus (Oriental bittersweet) or Celastrus scandens (American Bittersweet). If the inner bark of the roots was bright orange, you definitely have Celastrus. Bittersweet as a common name can refer to at least 5 completely unrelated plants. In the EU bittersweet most often means a species of Solanum. Celastrus is easier to work with than Solanum because it makes true wood, where Solanum wood is the brittle after the first year because it is more a perennial herb than a true tree or vine. Cleastrus is a woody vine that is winter hardy into USDA zone 4.

So orange inner bark on the roots = Celastrus.

 

[Sean Walker]

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Dang this is good ! I need these for more styles!