#118: Juniperus Chinensis "Shimpaku"

[Orion_metalhead]

Purchased today. Undecided on the final plan but potentially will consider air layers or a multi-trunk clump type thing. Idk. Definitely needs a repot next year into a flat box. Goal is to get it fully healthy by end of summer. Looks like it was in shade or did not get enpugh sun. I fertilized. I didnt see any immediate pest threats but on an overcast day Ill give it a spray of malthion as a precaution.

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Playing (Behind me and the kids lol):

 

[MrFancyPlants]

Nice hunk of wood there.. I’d like to see some grafting to make a sumo shohin, but I know the style is not for everyone.

 

[Hartinez]

Hey Orion. Big fan of clump shimpaku like this. It appears the trunks already have some wiggle. Here are pages out of the book “literati style penjing” of a progression of a single clumps type tree. May inspire some ideas!

Here is a thread of a tree I did that started similarly. https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/triple-trunk-shimpaku.51816/page-4#post-1188019

Either way should be a fun tree!