2018: the three year bonsai time capsule

[jquast]

Here is my third tree. It is a Japanese black pine that I purchased from Naka nursery when it was closing down a few years ago. This was a landscape black pine in a 24 inch growing pot when I purchased it and I'm finally getting around to working on it since its been sitting in the yard the past five years.

The second and third branches from the bottom were grafted on since the growth was far from the trunk.

 

[Smoke]

I sealed these three in the cornerstone of my house. I'll unpack them in three years and see what we got.
Pyracantha dug from commercial building

Trident maple from reorganized tree with difficult branching

Prostrata juniper from cut down moyogi demo tree. Left over from GSBF convention workshop.

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

We're at about 41 trees so far. Good stuff, any others?

We'll "seal" the vault on Tuesday 9/1/15 and open it on 9/1/18, loading the 2015 and a 2018 photo in the same post so it's cleaner and easy to toggle back & forth. Please post no updates on this thread meanwhile, elsewhere is obviously your prerogative. It will be good to skip over some time to see results after 3 years.

I'm adding one more: PP trident maple.

 

[Paradox]

I could probably post my JBP. Will try to later. I am on a 4 to 6 hour tree safari right now

 

[MACH5]

I'll throw one in. This is a very old Colorado blue spruce from Todd Schlafer. Collected about 4 years ago with a completely natural taper. In 2016 I will put it into a smaller wooden training box. In 2017 I'll do the first styling. In 2018 I will probably place it into a bonsai pot. I am excited about this tree! I think it has the potential to be one of my best. We shall see.

 

[Adair M]

Here is my third tree. It is a Japanese black pine that I purchased from Naka nursery when it was closing down a few years ago. This was a landscape black pine in a 24 inch growing pot when I purchased it and I'm finally getting around to working on it since its been sitting in the yard the past five years.

The second and third branches from the bottom were grafted on since the growth was far from the trunk.

You need to let that one have more foliage.

 

[BobbyLane]

This is another of mine, My third and final entry.. A field Elm. It needs some time to develop a canopy, ramification and branch thickness..

This first shot was taken at night, On my balcony

It in fact has the potential to be a top tree.

 

[Txhorticulture]

Kashima japanese maple. Cream puff deodar cedar. And cedar elm.

 

[michaelj]

Here are my three: a boxwood that I chopped severely earlier this month to start turning into a shohin, and is already popping buds all over; a trident maple I won at a raffle, which has three shoots that are more than four feet tall - it's also planned as a future shohin; and a recently removed bougainvillea air layer with movement that I like - it's going into the ground for about two years.

In 2018, I hope to have a boxwood 6-8 inches tall, with tight, well-ramified foliage pads; a trident maple shohin with a strong base and strong taper (but probably still a lot of ramification left); and a bougainvillea that's maybe 18-24 inches, twice as thick at the base as it is now, with tight foliage and hopefully some color. The straight part of the upper trunk I am not planning to keep once it is established in the ground. I'm hoping to have the boxwood and maple in nice shallow shohin pots. The bougie will be in something deeper.

 

[JudyB]

It was hard for me to pick what to post here, as most of my things are works in progress, and I expect a lot from most of them in the next few years! Realistically, these are the ones that move fast enough to think that in 3 years, I'll have a reasonably showable tree, or close to that. Hawthorn, that I've done a lot of editing on. I have a couple thread grafts that are doing well, and I expect them to fill the void on the left where I cut off a massive branch that was too straight out off the trunk. Going to tip it to the left and turn so all 3
trunks are visible from each other. The canopy in the wide shot is the shape I'm looking for, although of course all the new growth from this year will be cut back after dormancy and restarted.

 

[JudyB]

My beech, now that I have the leaf health thing figured out, I have a couple more years of inner ramification to do with this, and one straight middle branch to work on, and I think I'll be happy with this one.

 

[JudyB]

Stewartia! Love this thing, I'll edit the top left fat branch off next year, and move the back left trunk around forward a bit, as well as the right remaining apex. The little trunks around the edges of the pot are just hardwood cuttings that I stuck in there for giggles, and lookee, they took! I'll take them apart next spring at repot. This will remain a triple trunk.

 

[JudyB]

One more, my Red Beech. I may repot into a shallower pot next year, as it's such a strong grower.
OOPs, I just read that this is to be 3 trees only. If that is the limit, then I guess this one should go...

 

[quietobserver]

azalea, next year i will remove the bottom right branch and devolop a twin trunk, will style so most of the foliage will go to right side, left side branches keep close to the trunk and point downwards.
3 years is likely not enough though.. want to get the trunk to about 2,3 times what it is now. no need to be very thick but now its much to slim
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Variety djtommy? Looks c@@l to be...

 

[bonsaiBlake]

An emerald green thuja I would like to put in the capsule. My first tree with major deadwood work to be done. I'm rather excited about this one.

 

[barrosinc]

Definitely adding something today!!

 

[Paradox]

So I began to think that 3 years might be a bit ambitious for my scots pine so I would like to add my 2 JBP to the list:

Pictures from today:

 

[james]

Pines 3 yrs out...

Each worked over recently by Akio Kondo, Japanese bonsai professional. In general, 3 years should finish most of these trees... Fill out, refine, final planting angle, rebar off and new pots.

 

[Djtommy]

Variety djtommy? Looks c@@l to be...

Its kokounotsuki, 黒紅の月, its a newer variety. Has dark red with white in middle flowers.

 

[Adair M]

Akio knows his stuff. I have an Akio styled tree.