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privet bonsai.. 1 year old
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2014 10:02 pm
by Sym
comments and suggestions welcome
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Re: privet bonsai.. 1 year old
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:26 am
by tomc
Younger stock needs comparasons. How others have pruned their privet aught to color your thoughts on how you might want to do it.
This is one of the few trees in your new collection that might get top pruned. Look over the other guys shoulder some. And then sit down next you your tree with a pencil and paper. Draw twice, and cut once.
Re: privet bonsai.. 1 year old
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 2:26 pm
by Sym
Do you think someone on here has ventured a privet this large??
Re: privet bonsai.. 1 year old
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 3:40 pm
by rainbowgardener
It can be as small as you want it to be. It would just take years of patience to get it there.
https://i24.servimg.com/u/f24/15/64/75/41/privet12.jpg
Re: privet bonsai.. 1 year old
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 4:44 pm
by tomc
Sym, your finished size will be up to you. I would rather urge you on the side of caution; please leave on a terminal leaf (at least) on each branch you prune back. Privet might bud back on a branch without a living terminal leaf. But then again it might not...