Nope, not dry and not wilted. It has been growing very well like this for a couple of months.
I am thinking about leaving them on for the time being and taking cuttings/air layers next year. Its kind of neat and I am curious to see how it will grow on its own.
These trees get water almost daily. My mother in law has a dark shade of green on her thumb and everything in her care seems to thrive. The upper and lower parts of the tree are both very vigorous in growth. If you look at the horizontal branch in the second picture, you can see the leaves are not droopy, but flat and upside down.
Its not the colour that has me perplexed, its that the leaves all grow upside down. Like I said, these are healthy and growing well.
Maybe it is an Android only app. I run with iOS crowd. I searched the App Store tree times.
If there were to be one, though, it likely would be a seiryu, IMHO.
Because it is unusual. I don't remember saying I would make a bonsai out of it or anything beyond seeing how it would do on its own. I might turn it into a bonsai if there was something worthwhile grown, but for now, I like the unusual and have about fifteen acer cultivar cuttings started. Who knows what I will plant in my dream garden, but I am not going to pay thousands of dollars for grafted landscape trees when I can grow my own and if I so choose, bonsai anything that has real potential along the way. Maybe I am alone here in also enjoying trees as just that, unadulterated trees, so I sincerely agree with you that not every piece of material needs to be bonsai.
Well...on a bonsai forum...an air layer usually is done for bonsai. You never was clear so ones will assume for bonsai.
I have not seen a single other tree do this since I noticed this tree doing it. I have been looking. Humidity has been very high to fairly low with no change in the leaves. Rain has been almost non existent for the last couple of months, but like I said, it is never in want of water.
