Bought a A. hornbeam @ Kannapolis- I have a repotting question.

[ETN_bonsai]

I picked this one up from a vendor at the winter show this past weekend.




The nice fellow said it had been under development for about 15 years in his care and was due a repot in the spring. It’s situated in a 12” round nursery pot at the moment. My thoughts were to move it a ~10” round training pot for 2-3 years for the tree to ramify. My reasoning is to start to reduce the root mass in preparation for relocation to a more appropriate ‘final’ pot without reducing it to the point it would need a year to work on its roots before having much energy to start it’s branching. Am I close to the mark with this thinking, or am I totally off base?

Thanks in advance.

 

[BobbyLane]

Looks like a great buy, hope you go the naturalistic route with it! The bones are there. At the next repotting, i'd be tempted to put it into a training pot half the depth of this one. To further power top growth without compromising the root mass too much.

Might find this inspiring, the three sub trunks in one of the rotations have some similarities. From Maros bonsai

 

[BobbyLane]

Is the Whisky really that good down there in Tennessee?

 

[souvik1811]

Wow, looks like an amazing buy. If I were the seller, I wouldn't have sold it at this stage after putting 15 years into it.

 

[ETN_bonsai]

Looks like a great buy, hope you go the naturalistic route with it! The bones are there. At the next repotting, i'd be tempted to put it into a training pot half the depth of this one. To further power top growth without compromising the root mass too much.

Might find this inspiring, the three sub trunks in one of the rotations have some similarities. From Maros bonsai

Thanks for the tip and the video. I’m leaning towards a 10” round by 4-5” deep pot. I’d eventually like to get the tree in a drum pot.

Is the Whisky really that good down there in Tennessee?

I’m not much of a whiskey man, myself. Probably not the best person to give an opinion

Wow, looks like an amazing buy. If I were the seller, I wouldn't have sold it at this stage after putting 15 years into it.

It is a great tree considering what I paid for it. He had another hornbeam that I wish, in retrospect, I’d bought in addition to the one in this thread. He mentioned he was cutting down his collection. I got the feeling he had an abundance of better trees. I was very happy to end up with the tree.

 

[Colorado]

I picked this one up from a vendor at the winter show this past weekend.


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The nice fellow said it had been under development for about 15 years in his care and was due a repot in the spring. It’s situated in a 12” round nursery pot at the moment. My thoughts were to move it a ~10” round training pot for 2-3 years for the tree to ramify. My reasoning is to start to reduce the root mass in preparation for relocation to a more appropriate ‘final’ pot without reducing it to the point it would need a year to work on its roots before having much energy to start it’s branching. Am I close to the mark with this thinking, or am I totally off base?

Thanks in advance.

Awesome purchase! Great bones there. I personally like to use wooden boxes as a development container. For this one, I’d make a box for it about 12”x12” and half as deep as the current container as Bobby mentioned. Leave it in there for 2 years. Then you can re-evaluate in a couple years where to go from there.

 

[Wood]

Good lord that's a stunning purchase. Nice find!

 

[Dav4]

I agree with Colorado,,, either a custom made wooden grow box or perhaps an Anderson flat to continue its development.

 

[Gabler]

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[dbonsaiw]

Great tree. I really need to get myself to one of these shows.