Acer Palmatum - Successful bud back. Now What?
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Posted 5 years 6 months ago #50528Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
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Posted 5 years 6 months ago #50537I would pot it up deeper. The surface roots are showing. They should be in the ground in order to improve the nebari.
The trunk you have there is fairly thin, and very straight. Think about the sort of tree you are aiming at. What size, what shape. That will define which route to take.
Keep in mind that for a realistic tree-like result you will need a trunk that is much thicker. Generally speaking: 6 to 12 times the thickness of the trunk = final tree height.
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Posted 5 years 6 months ago #50555You need to create taper and nebari. Read this: www.bonsaiempire.com/basics/styling/advanced/trunk
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Posted 5 years 6 months ago #50560If the height is what you want, you need to grow the trunk about 5 times as thick, I would guess. Use the side branches that have popped for this. Thin those to 1 per node.Ideally leave those sprouting from the futur back of the tree. Allow these to grow tall (2, 3 metres) and then remove them. Then you should have the desired thickness.
Or you just let the whole tree grow, and you do a cut-and-grow-and-cut routing on the main trunkline.
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Posted 5 years 5 months ago #51349lucR wrote: 名媛直播 is all about waiting, and waiting some more. You said it yourself: you have done enough this season. So leave it be, let it grow, look at it twice a day, tiurn it around, look at some real bonsai, and wait a bit more. Time and your tree will tell you what to do.
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