American elms for shohin?

[BrianBay9]

I've seen significant leaf reduction, so I'm hopeful I can make some of these into something some day. This is my second cut back on most of these already this year. Probably can get at least a couple more this year.

 

[americanelmer]

Where you live -- you keepa cuttin and they will keepa growin! You gotta keep em watered and fertilized and they qill keep on exploding. I use 30-10-10 with added Iron here on Florida, but all my elms came from N.Y. and don"t seem to notice they have no winter. They go dormant at the end of the year and start to leaf out in late April-early May.

Have fun!

A_E

 

[BrianBay9]

You gotta love how fast these guys grow! Mine start moving in Feb/March.

 

[sorce]

My Timecapsuled AE is going shohin.

If it don't die....

For S&G I took some bad Californian advice and cut mine back before it "ligardened off" and it is sulking.
Those little Black Algae mites also climbed up for the sap or some reason....and when present on leafless elms in my experience, the tree has a hard time rebounding...if at all. This leads me to believe they are eating soft new growth themselves, or are somehow otherwise a signal of something else. Always in great numbers.

Is this not the Bonsai Heresay thread?
Lol. Sorry!

Shurhin!

Sorce

 

[M. Frary]

I've seen significant leaf reduction

From just cutting back for ramification the leaves get under 1/2" easily. I imagine with exfoliation they could get miniscule.

 

[Zach Smith]

American elm is probably the leaf-size reduction champion. In the wild the leaves get easily to 5". In bonsai culture, you can get them below 1/2" no problem.

 

[Darth Masiah]

i really like the little guy in the second pic. check out this blog with all kinds of cool little trees. he shows a lot of techniques you can use when growing small bonsai.
http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/fwnt1093/MYBLOG/yblog.html/