Another complicate Scott pine

[bonsai-max]

For next time.. This is information you should give at the beginning.
This makes that I have great concerns for the long term future of this tree. Please proove me wrong in 6 months.

Will do it, but I explain better the situation, the soil was in a plastic bag not all the green part that was almost all outside.
In the meantime the plant is moving these are the candle when i took it


And this is the same candle last week



And today are much more opens
I have hope

 

[bonsai-max]

A small update...
Now the plant is in full sun since a couple of weeks and all is going well.
All the candle are open and I have had some small new candles opens where the old one was almost dead ( second flush ? )
I just tie the stronger branch vertical, this will be the sacrifice branch that I want to grow untouched to make bigger trunk next years.
For the bottom branches we will see next spring....

 

[bonsai-max]

Hi there, the plant is reacting very well, I have had some backbudding and I am thinking to some ideas to do next season.
I was thinking to clean the up wheel, leaving only a couple of sacrifice branch, on the bottom line use one as a semi cascade or similar and cut the other two...

Just an idea.




Something like this

 

[bonsai-max]

No ideas ?

 

[leatherback]

You need to reduce all these wheels of branches to a main and a side-branch. I think the whole tree comes of the first wheel. Removing the top. And then reducing everything to the shortest bifurbications. But for this, the tree needs to establish itself and get healthy.

 

[bonsai-max]

You need to reduce all these wheels of branches to a main and a side-branch. I think the whole tree comes of the first wheel. Removing the top. And then reducing everything to the shortest bifurbications. But for this, the tree needs to establish itself and get healthy.

Nice point of view let's do it , so basically the first right branch become the first branch, the left one become the new apex and the rest I will have to cut.
With the second part I will do a jin ? I will leave a sacrifice branch on top for the next years....
Yes I will wait this season that the plant will be stronger.
Should I start to wire the left new apex before getting to hard to bent ?
Thank you very much

Here are some pictures of the two branches

Right




Left new apex





front view

 

[leatherback]

Yes I will wait this season that the plant will be stronger.
Should I start to wire the left new apex before getting to hard to bent ?

I leave pines alone for 2 years minimum before this sort of work.
Maybe that is overkill but better that thank pine kill.

 

[bonsai-max]

I leave pines alone for 2 years minimum before this sort of work.

Ok, hopefully I can still bent the new apex.

 

[bonsai-max]

The winter is moving and the pine start really moving with some nice backbudding , the worst period is gone.

 

[minkes]

Maybe you could forgot everything about this tree and start thinking about grafting new branches with better variety of pine? Just one more option to think about. This could give you more possibilities than you have now.