My Chinese Elm
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:53 am
Hi everybody,
Really just posting here since nobody else has for a week or so. And I finally got around to taking some pics of my trees and learning how to post them. And I'm avoiding studying for a class I'm taking to learn MS Excel
. I picked this up at a nursery two months ago.
[img]https://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad43/derkap10_photo/Bonsai/PlantsandTrees001.jpg[/img]
Was in way too small a pot (badly root-bound) and was so leggy that some of the newer growth was hanging down past the rim of the pot. It was also buried much too low in the pot (if you can see where the trunk has the grey area that was where the bottom of the tree was). Put it in a much larger pot and raised it well up to start working on some nebari. Pruned back the larger limbs but letting the younger ones grow out to get somewhat woodier. Getting plenty of back-budding and constantly pinching off new growth from the trunk. Only thing I'm wondering about now is that I've got four branches all going off the same way.....
[img]https://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad43/derkap10_photo/Bonsai/PlantsandTrees008.jpg[/img]
The largest one is actually more trending to the back. Should I cut back one or two of the others to keep from getting an unbalanced feel? Or does it seem to be balanced okay? Just seeing what y'all think. Thanks much,
Allen
Really just posting here since nobody else has for a week or so. And I finally got around to taking some pics of my trees and learning how to post them. And I'm avoiding studying for a class I'm taking to learn MS Excel
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[img]https://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad43/derkap10_photo/Bonsai/PlantsandTrees001.jpg[/img]
Was in way too small a pot (badly root-bound) and was so leggy that some of the newer growth was hanging down past the rim of the pot. It was also buried much too low in the pot (if you can see where the trunk has the grey area that was where the bottom of the tree was). Put it in a much larger pot and raised it well up to start working on some nebari. Pruned back the larger limbs but letting the younger ones grow out to get somewhat woodier. Getting plenty of back-budding and constantly pinching off new growth from the trunk. Only thing I'm wondering about now is that I've got four branches all going off the same way.....
[img]https://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad43/derkap10_photo/Bonsai/PlantsandTrees008.jpg[/img]
The largest one is actually more trending to the back. Should I cut back one or two of the others to keep from getting an unbalanced feel? Or does it seem to be balanced okay? Just seeing what y'all think. Thanks much,
Allen