PA_Penjing
Chumono
phenomenal!
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hemmy
Omono
You improved it a lot between 1998 and 2003, developing better taper to the branches. Did you take it to bonsai club workshops or consult professionals in that time? Or was the learning all on your own? In any case, very impressive.
Cheers
Yes, for sure. Standard, beginners, advice when you 'do' bonsai is that you have to prune back shoots with 7 leaves, to 2 leaves, and remove all shoots that are growing in the wrong direction. Just cut and grow. That is what I mostly did in the first years. This result gave me a result showing on the photo in 2006: Too many thick branches and hardly fine ones. So, in general, cut and grow is fine, but also, you have to cut back deeper into the tree, to remove thickened branches. And also do some wiring instead instead of just cut. Just remove the last part of the shoot, eg: remove the last 3 leaves. Also you cannot keep the tree always in showcondition, because sometimes you have to build branches again, to get new majority.... And also, don't give too much fertlliser, and don't repot too often when a tree is in final stage.
But I keep learning, that proces never ends...
Nope, just learned myself by looking, and reading around. But also: look around you and try to understand trees; why do they grow how they grow?
I've started taking lessons in 2017.
Ja_De
Seedling
Congratulations. The tree, the journey and the recognition... Awesome.
