Got this Yatsubusa today, and I am very happy with the purchase. However as you can see, there are some spots with inverse taper/knobbing (which is very typical of yatsubusa elms). Obviously I'm thinking air layers, one at the top under at that bulge, and one at the bottom right on that bulge...
Apologies if this question has been asked before. I can only find questions about vanilla air layering Arakawa Maples.
I've found a few sources of Arakawa pre-bonsai that have established root bases but there's a very clear line between the non-Arakawa root stock and the graft point where the...
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I just bought this awesome Japanese maple senkaki (or so the tag reads).
It has an awesome shape with good growth on the lower part of the tree.
I want to layer the trunk above the graft to produce nebari.
And at the same time, removing the not so good looking graft.
I've looked at...
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I am currently looking to pots, which won't look good, just for training and allowing a tree to grow whilst doing some work on it, such as chop and grow or getting it back to health.
I feel that the root work, to fit it in to a nice bonsai pot can come after all of that.
I found mostly...
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Not expecting a great deal of comments, as there isn't much to say about it yet really!
This is an air layer I started nearly 10 weeks ago, and what its roots currently look like.
I did worry that they aren't quite the colour of roots I was expecting but, I leave that to better minds...
Sad story....maybe? I air layered the top off of this plant and then moved it to the corner of the garden. The air layer was spectacular. Our gardener knocked it off the shelf and did not tell me. I noticed it 4 days later and laying down in the pot......it never recovered. Here is the bottom...