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Hiya,

First post and enthusiastic bonsai beginner here. I recently acquired my first two larches, and I'm hoping anyone can help out with some styling advice. I also made a sketch of what I had in mind for them.

1. is the sketch achievable with the trunks already being more than 1cm thick? Or is an informal upright more realistic
2. for bending these larches would you require raffia/vet wrap? I'm scared to break the bark, and basically just wondering how far you can go with a tree of this size/thickness

Would be very grateful for any advice

I cannot see any pictures.

Oops, something must've gone wrong with the attachments, added them again

Yes, not to tick to bend. Do you have wires in diffrent tickness? Other wise use 2 wires.
If you have raffia use it. Don't cover any buds visable on the trunk.

Did you pay 45euro for one seedling? Did not know they where so expensive. I collected 22 of those sizes (also bigger) in the last 2 years. 5 of them last week, to try some extreme bendings on them.

Appreciate the feedback!

I got some different size wire, maybe 2x 4mm should be good to put some extreme bends in it. I have some raffia equivalent I can use as well, but how do you distinguish between dormant buds and previously pruned branch nubs? I thought larches do not backbud, meaning I wouldn't have to worry about covering any latent buds

I haven't seen non-pseudo larches around here (netherlands) except in the store I came by, so went for it. Guess I got rolled..

I am from holland too. If you have a reddit account, and send me a private message there /u/rorrors, i can send you a location for seedlings. Always nice to have some backup tree's growing. (new users can't send private messages here on this forum, and i am not willing to post the location publicly)

After an other look at the pictures, i now recognise the logo of Hoka en bonsai studio. (lodder)

They don't bud back well, but i have had some backbudding in the past.
Now the buds are open it's easy to put raffia around it, just said it to not cover any buds that still needs to open. Looking at the picture i guess most are open already.

Also still a beginner, but here is the topic about my mess of larches:

I am from holland too. If you have a reddit account, and send me a private message there /u/rorrors, i can send you a location for seedlings. Always nice to have some backup tree's growing. (new users can't send private messages here on this forum, and i am not willing to post the location publicly)

After an other look at the pictures, i now recognise the logo of Hoka en bonsai studio. (lodder)

They don't bud back well, but i have had some backbudding in the past.
Now the buds are open it's easy to put raffia around it, just said it to not cover any buds that still needs to open. Looking at the picture i guess most are open already.

Also still a beginner, but here is the topic about my mess of larches:

This is my first try of bending a leggy larch:



It is budding out nicelly right now.

Cool design concept!

Nice material, the second one is asking for upright formal...