Here the weather is very dry and hot
I used 20% sand 30% coarse peat moss and 50%lava rocks
What do u think? I wont water it unless gets dry every other day
Do you mean i chopped it so much? Will it survive this chop?
I'm cautous about not leaving a living terminal leaf on branches I chop. I'll cut over a long period of years, instead of chopping super hard. My reluctance doesn't make me right and others wrong.
I'm very beginner at bonsai. But off hand I would think the tree needs to recover from several major shocks to its system - all that pruning and root pruning too. Your suggestion of removing the big branch for taper sounds like a good one, but perhaps for another year after the tree has recovered from what you have already done and is healthy and growing again. Bonsai is a very patient art.