pruning

Help!! I got a young Japanese Maple 2 years ago, so I'm guessing it's about 4 years old now, and it only has 1 long branch that is getting longer and longer, and is starting to grow more sideways than up, and there is a clear bend in that branch as you can see in the pictures. All the new growth...

Hi! So I have had the juniper pictured below for just under a year now. I am unsure of how to proceed. It seems to me like the pads need to be thinned out but I don’t really know how to do this. Also the area near the end of the cascade is a sort of “blob” of foliage and it doesn’t look right...

Hello. Last year i posted about cutting back my elms, but decided to wait because i wanted to repot. Now they are VERY bushy i kinda want to trim them.. all 3 have been repotted this spring and put on a lot of growth since. The two outer trees is two seasons of growth beyond the silhouette. Is...

Needles stopped extending ✓ New Buds are present ✓ Plants are healthy ✓ Needles have fully opened ✓ 3 more months before the fall temperature drop ✓ All of the above have a check mark, so the conditions are met. It doesn't matter where in the world you are, these are the things that matter. You...

I’m getting ready to do a light prune on my Hinoki; Chamaecyparis Obtusa "Gracilis". It’s got very long slender branches with minimal secondary branching and I was wondering if there is a good way to prune to promote secondary branching? It’s about 40 inches high and these branches are maybe...

Hi, just this week I collected a birch tree from the wild and placed it in a wooden box. I kept the rootball moist and placed it in a mix that is mostly made up of pumice with 15% bark. Due to my current living situation it only gets a around 4 hours of direct sunlight in the afternoon, but this...

I received a shipment of trees from Bonsaify a few days ago and am hungry to work them. They’re grown in San Fran, and I live in Calgary.. quite a difference in where the trees are growth wise to where my trees are currently. My in ground trees are just starting to have buds swell or leafing out...

Good day and thank you very much for taking time to review my question. I am very new to the hobby (yet to get my first tree/plant) and have a question about cutting a limb/branch for the purpose of shaping it. My late grandmother has a Japanese Maple on her property that is over 12' tall and...

Howdy y'all, I've been growing these from seed for almost 5 years now (4 flame trees, 1 jacarda and 1 silk) and I'm curious to the community's opinion on whether or not they're ready for a trunk chop? One FLAME seems to be naturally back budding as is and one SILK I also let get waaaay too big...

I'm looking for advice on styling and pros and cons of removing the lower limb this spring. Good idea or bad?

This was a typical S-shaped tiger bark ficus. I air pruned it and chopped it about two years ago. This is is the top part. What an ugly scar. How best to clean this up?

Hello all, I have a crepe myrtle I'd like to make into a bonsai, and I am having trouble picking a front, and subsequently choosing what branches to prune. I apologize for the crowded photos; I don't have a great spot to take pictures. I am open to any suggestions. I know I need to repot to...

Hello guys, I recently got a chienese elm tree for my birthday (Jan 22nd). ( I live in central europe). I watered it as my friend who gave it to me suggested. He said this tree is decidious and I shouldn't be surprised if it doesn't grow that much. As you can see it grew a little bit 😄😄 I think...

This Is my first year with this yamadori wisteria that I collected in the spring. It has grown very well over the spring and summer. We are about to get our first frost this week. And I know that in the ground they can withstand the cold. Just wondering if it should be ok in the pot as well...

i bought this cork elm from meehan's in what i admit was a bit of an impulse buy (i will also admit i'm a relative beginner at bonsai). that said, i see a lot of potential in this because of the trunk. i 1) have two visions for that potential and 2) really don't want to accidentally kill this...

Hello all - I've searched both this forum and elsewhere online and can't seem to find a clear answer, so I'm hoping by posting the question myself that you wise folks will jump in. I have a Seiju elm I picked up a couple months ago as a pre-bonsai from a nursery that has a "bonsai" department...

Hello everyone. First post here. I got this juniper (not sure if Chinese, Japanese, etc), and I wired it as seen, kind of just going for something unique, not totally certain on eventual style. Anyway, I have done some light pruning/trimming on foliage which has 5+ tips growing out. Outside...

During stretches of 100F+ summer heat, is there pruning work that could be done on juniper, deciduous, and broadleaf evergreens? Obviously in some places, those temps are just called “summer” and I guess the work must go on. Although stressing the tree through wound healing or foliage mass...

I’m new to bonsai’s but I started last year with sprouting Chinese Elm. It’s a wonderful tree, and loves the kitchen atrium where it faces south. I repotted in the Spring, and did a little bit of pruning because it outgrew the pot. But then I read afterwards that I should not have repotted or...

Basically I have a nursery stock yew I worked on at the end of May in a workshop and we created deadwood and cut maybe 70% foliage off. Since then it seems to have grown really healthy (I think, this is my first yew). I want to encourage the lower growth, especially the buds lower on the trunk...

HI everyone! I just got my first bonsai today (a creeping juniper from my local nursery), and with some wonderful advice from @pandacular pruned it into a shape. Since this is my first ever Bonsai, I thought it'd be fun to start a progression thread This was the initial Juniper, which I had...

Hi everyone! I'm new to the forum and bonsai as a whole. I just bought a creeping juniper (juniperus horizontalis) from my local nursery with some help from the nursery's bonsai enthusiast. I already pinched off all of the dead and brittle leaves/branches, as well as snipped a few tiny branches...

Consolidating all of my bucida spinosa/terminalia molinetti tree progressions and work into a single thread to keep things less spammy. I appreciate and welcome any constructive criticism, questions, suggestions. The poll is for the first tree. This is my 2nd biggest one, has kind of a long...

Hello I'm fairly un experienced with ficus but I've had these to for a while and for the most part they've done great but the past couple months I've noticed that while one has continued to grow just fine but the other there's been literally zero amount of new growth and I've not changed there...

Hello I have been wondering about this weirdly long and vertical branch at the end of one of the lower pads on my Chinese elm, but since its been there since way before I bought the tree I hadn't cut it, since I thought there must be a reason for it being there. Should I just cut this branch...