Juniperus Sabina - better pads

[BonPiotr]

Hi,
I have recently started juniperus sabina (tamariscifoglia) project and here is some progress pics:


For now i’m very happy with it, because it’s my first project, but i’m thinking about further development, so here’s the question. What to do to make pads more puffy than flat? Is it trait of this tamariscifoglia variety or i can do something, to make pads look more like in this vid?

 

[Bonsai Nut]

The foliage pads will naturally thicken if you lay them out flat (so they get the most sun) and remove any random foliage growing straight up or straight down.

It is also important to arrange your foliage so that no foliage pad shades out one directly beneath it. You want all foliage pads to get full sun. If you view Bjorn's tree (in the video) if you viewed it directly from above, there would probably be very few open spaces, and very few foliage pads overlapping each other.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Bjorn is using wildtype sabina, which is different from tamariscifolia.
Tam. Have more open foliage and are harder to make pads out of. But it can be done with the right pruning and sunlight.
Not as fine as wildtype or rastrera varieties of sabina, but it's possible.

 

[BonPiotr]

Thanks! I have corrected pads placement, since I wired them only yesterday

Even if it will never be that refined in terms of ramification and puffy pads, i’m still happy with it Gotta start somewhere