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Restyled…

At our last house, my trees were right outside the basement door, leading to my office/bonsai workshop and it was really easy to grab a tree and bring it in to work on and photograph. Built a great display bench with black background and a pulldown projector screen, with shelving below to store...

Not necessarily. If you decandle it, the resulting growth you’ll have will be at the tips. If you don’t decandle, interior shoots can strengthen and you can cut back to those where needed.

You could decandle it, and it does look like it’s been done previously on this pine, but that is a late-stage development technique and this tree really needs to be styled first. In your fall, prune strong upper shoots, weak lower shoots to define primary branches (emerging from the trunk)...

Anytime between now and spring. It always seems to have a little dieback, but nothing significant.

Thanks. Without turning this thread into a “moves right or moves left” thread, if I understand your question correctly, the tree definitely moves left. After the first bend, the movement is decidedly flowing left. It is possible to have a tree flowing one way and still have the larger mass of...

Thanks Danny! This is one of my taller trees and is about 31” from the soil. Pot is 18.5” wide if I recall. That section you see is definitely congested, but the image doesn’t quite read right. It is 3 branches emerging from one plane, a thin pair and a thicker single toward the back. The...

One more with a dark background. Finally coming into focus after 10 years.

Wired… Adjusted…

Got a chance to work on this one. Pruned and needle-pulled:

Leafless now…needs a trim.

Trash. It dropped down to 24 one night and the leaves went from green to mush in a couple days. Notes to self…

Some pix would be really helpful.

Nekked

There is a fairly active bonsai pot identification page on FB you could try.

If they’re for root grafts it probably won’t matter at all. If they’re for branches, it would be better to grow out some whips to thread/approach graft on the tree you’re grafting so you have zero variability. Otherwise there is a chance you get weird timing and colors during fall.

Trident maple toward the end of colors. Ikkou pot, DaSu stand.

Trident maple just starting to color up, the Seigen in the background is putting on a clinic.

This is about exactly what I do. The couple tropicals I do have go into a sunroom facing East.

Trident maple, Ikkou pot.

You got lucky, fortunate outcome.

Stewartia

Japanese Beech today.

A Japanese Red Pine I started from seed around 2007. Really haven’t started working on it yet.

A ginkgo I’ve grown from seed I collected in 1996…never had a scrap of wire, 100% clip & grow.