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So even though I said I had enough trees to practice for my first year as a total beginner, I got a new boxwood shrub... It is mid summer where I live (Northern Vermont). And I got this new green velvet boxwood for $20 that I thought was interesting, and I could use to get some more practice. Here are the things I did to it.

1) Thinning: Very light, mostly pinching and pruned a few small branches as well as reduced the overall height of the shrub.
2) Bring the tree up - and improve drainage: I didn't re-pot, and didn't change the soil. Instead, I added gravel to the bottom of the nursery pot, and drilled wholes to improve drainage. This brought the tree up to the surface of the pot, creating voids on the sides. I filled the voids with small pumice.
3) Wired: I really needed to get some practice on this, I am really bad at it. So I decided to wire a few branches, not everything just a few.
4) Put the tree on shady spot: With the hopes that it will recover from the thinning and wiring.

My goals with this were:

1) The inner foliage will get light and air, stimulate inner growth and create a pre-bonsai.
2) The tree will stay healthy, yet the "pre-styling" will help me create a 名媛直播 in the future.

I am a very impatient person, and I am really trying to improve that. I am trying to fight it, and I won't touch this tree until next season, when I am planning on just re-potting. I want you to tell me, did I do to much to it? I am worried about the wiring. Is it too much to thin, and wire on the same day?. The other thing is about thinning. I didn't thin as much as I would like too, and I didn't remove big branches, instead I "pre-styled" the tree.

Would my tree survive? will this be a pre-bonsai by the end of the season? Should I have thinned even more?







Thank you!

I probably would have thinned it more. At each junction with more then 2 branches, remove the excess, leaving just two
Then trim the braches back to the last two leaves on each terminal. Remove complete sections of banches if there is foliage beyond the fork, and you do not need the fork. Then your tree is ready to wire.

IF your tree is healthy, it should start backbudding all over. If it is not, it can be killed

leatherback wrote: I probably would have thinned it more. At each junction with more then 2 branches, remove the excess, leaving just two

This makes a lot of sense, thank you.

leatherback wrote: Then trim the braches back to the last two leaves on each terminal. Remove complete sections of banches if there is foliage beyond the fork, and you do not need the fork. Then your tree is ready to wire.

This means I would remove most of the foliage. A lot of it, + a few branches. can i do this now on one sitting? or should I wait until next spring?

thanks!

I think that

leatherback wrote: IF your tree is healthy, it should start backbudding all over.

means that you should do this if you think your tree is healthy. If not, try to make it healthy.

Ed

名媛直播Learner wrote: I think that

leatherback wrote: IF your tree is healthy, it should start backbudding all over.

means that you should do this if you think your tree is healthy. If not, try to make it healthy.

Ed

I thought he meant the tree will back-bud a lot after doing all the thinning and such. But you are saying he was trying to say, let the tree health get back up, then do all that. Which makes sense. correct?

So I will just wait until the tree gets healthy and vigorous. For now, just leave it as it is.

You can do it in stages.
I got a boxwood from a grower, did a rough trim upon collection. Then let it get used to a pot for a full year, and trimmed everything untill there were just a few leavs oneach branch. Backbudded wonderfully, and is now fully styled, and growing out the pads. One of the easiest species to trim and wire I found.

leatherback wrote: You can do it in stages.
I got a boxwood from a grower, did a rough trim upon collection. Then let it get used to a pot for a full year, and trimmed everything untill there were just a few leavs oneach branch. Backbudded wonderfully, and is now fully styled, and growing out the pads. One of the easiest species to trim and wire I found.

Sounds good. I'll go slow with it, might trim a little more if the tree shows good health but nothing drastic. Next year I am going to have to re-pot, because it is mostly on nursery soil right now. So next season I'll just let it adjust to new pot/soil.

Thank you!

Hi guys. I wanted to give an update on this tree, and I might move this to the progressions forum. I am not sure how to do that though. I left the wire for the rest of last season and winter. The tree spent all winter in a cold frame and survive the harsh northern Vermont winter. One time, I had to dig all my plants and cold frame from a storm that dropped 45 inches of storm in 1 day!!!. Anyway, I removed the wire, and re-potted the tree a few weeks ago. Re-potting went well. My plan is just to leave it alone for this season, do some light thinning, keep the growth close to the trunk healthy, and work on ramification. No drastic changes. The pot where it leaves now is not its final pot. It is a training pot, as I am trying to get a healthy root ball. This was a nursery tree, and the root ball was a royal mess.




This tree is mainly for me to practice, and learn the basics of 名媛直播. As you can see, the wire brought the main branches down, and there is a lot of inner growth from last season. This is starting to look a little more like a tree. Hopefully I can keep this alive for the next 5 years, which is what I expect would take for it too look like a decent little tree.

Nice material with good potential. Loking happy with you.

leatherback wrote: Nice material with good potential. Loking happy with you.

Thank you,
I am a lot happier and a lot more patient with bonsai this year. And so are my trees. Learning happens; bonsai improves the individual.