JBP design opinion needed
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ValorG
Yamadori
I would like your opinions.
A. Apex moves to the right a bit more and develop the lower right branch as the defining branch for a more centered balanced design.
B. Apex go left and develop the lower left branch as the defining branch.
C. Dynamic but least "balanced", apex goes left but I choose the lower right branch as the defining branch and extend that more.
A. Apex moves to the right a bit more and develop the lower right branch as the defining branch for a more centered balanced design.
B. Apex go left and develop the lower left branch as the defining branch.
C. Dynamic but least "balanced", apex goes left but I choose the lower right branch as the defining branch and extend that more.
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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Can you supply pictures with a solid backdrop? Also, pictures taken from the level of the top of the pot are better versus from above.
ValorG
Yamadori
Hi sorry this tree is at my mothers house and I cant retake a photo for now. Assume that this is level after an angle change is done in the next repot.
Russ1
Mame
Really crazy, radical opinion, only keep the branch on the right and start building from that.. and carve some dead wood up/down the front of the trunk.
Potawatomi13
Imperial Masterpiece
IMO Keep left cascading branch and develop as Cascade or Semi Cascade, Remove Rt branch, maybe leave short Jin and Jin whole top of tree. Leave nothing green above base of left branch.
Perhaps also raise trunk angle 1/3 to 1/2 but depending on how root spread works out best.
Perhaps also raise trunk angle 1/3 to 1/2 but depending on how root spread works out best.
Leo in N E Illinois
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Main trunk has beautiful fissured bark. Branches are a contradicting mess, The trunk is valuable. If you can not take the time to put a piece of white cardboard behind the tree and take a picture that is visually free of clutter, well, we can not help you. Chop away and good luck.
In more helpful vein, you are in Long Island, there are bonsai professionals you could either bring the tree to for advice or service or have them come to you. (for a fee of course, usually well worth it). There are local bonsai clubs, Long Island BNutters, - please help this member out.
As in medicine - first, do no harm. You do not have to do any pruning or cutting this year or even next year, just keep it watered and in sun. Use the time to learn about bonsai, learn about local bonsai artists, local clubs, local resources. There is no rush to do anything. That beautiful bark took decades to develop, no reason to rush into anything that might ruin the tree.
One of the biggest error newbies make is chopping off way too much, and then they have to wait years, decades even, for the tree to grow back and fill out much of the foliage they removed. Also, though less common, pruning too much from a pine can quite possibly kill it. Much better to go slow.
In more helpful vein, you are in Long Island, there are bonsai professionals you could either bring the tree to for advice or service or have them come to you. (for a fee of course, usually well worth it). There are local bonsai clubs, Long Island BNutters, - please help this member out.
As in medicine - first, do no harm. You do not have to do any pruning or cutting this year or even next year, just keep it watered and in sun. Use the time to learn about bonsai, learn about local bonsai artists, local clubs, local resources. There is no rush to do anything. That beautiful bark took decades to develop, no reason to rush into anything that might ruin the tree.
One of the biggest error newbies make is chopping off way too much, and then they have to wait years, decades even, for the tree to grow back and fill out much of the foliage they removed. Also, though less common, pruning too much from a pine can quite possibly kill it. Much better to go slow.
Nybonsai12
Masterpiece
https://www.longislandbonsai.org/ is the local club. I'm no longer a member but they have some good folks there. Mauro visits in two weeks.
