Need a little help creating a bunjin!

[Forsoothe!]

Then let it be until you get to a point of having confidence in yourself. It won't get worse, and in my experience, the longer you take to execute a design, the better the final product. You have a potential treasure that you should hoard for the future. These opportunities are few and far between.

 

[Daniel son STL]

Then let it be until you get to a point of having confidence in yourself. It won't get worse, and in my experience, the longer you take to execute a design, the better the final product. You have a potential treasure that you should hoard for the future. These opportunities are few and far between.

I’m just gonna keep it healthy

 

[bonsaichile]

Cpl more
Tree I collected past spring
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Another shimpakuView attachment 267455

Jbp
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After contemplating these, bunjin isn’t as easy as I imagined, or maybe I just have shit material that’s gonna take some care to bend bc although young, their semi stiff. Especially the junipers.

Well any help or advise would be great!!!

May I ask, if you think this material is shitty, why did you collect it? In general, people collect trees that have age and character. Why collect such young trees?

 

[Daniel son STL]

May I ask, if you think this material is shitty, why did you collect it? In general, people collect trees that have age and character. Why collect such young trees?

Well I was being a bit sarcastic. Never said I have shitty material. But possibly shitty young material to style a good bunjin. I paid 10$ a piece for these, so if shitty bunjin material it is, then so be it. I can go a thousand other routes with them, like let them thicken up and develop taper and just forget the whole bunjin thing altogether till I get better material. But like I said, $10 whips to play around with I’m totally satisfied. The only young tree I stated I collected with bunjin potential was behind my house, I saw potential so I collected it. Took 2.5 min to dig it up.

And if your talking about the other collected tree I posted, did you even look at it?? it’s truly an old and amazing juniper! Pics don’t do it justice at all.

So no I don’t think I have shitty material, but some of my material is cheap, and fun to play with and learn from!

 

[Daniel son STL]

Alright guys gave it a few more shots. They’re simple, nothing extraordinary, although I’m decently happy about the turn out on these so far

Jbp - styled this morning. Lower right branch will be taken off in future


Shimpaku - styled this afternoon


Trying to figure out where to place the back sacrificial branch, going to make a big jin out of it. Any suggestions??

And one more shimpaku styled - tonight




Any criticism. Keep in mind these are all young material and of around shohin size

Thanks!!!

 

[Daniel son STL]

So I did up the other cpl as best as I could thinking literati and bunjin. I had fun and some decent practice before I pick up and work on a huge pondo pine from mark fields in the bunjin style.

Some before and afters
Shimpaku - before


-after

 

[Daniel son STL]

Shimpaku-before


After


Shimpaku-before


After

Have a huge Shari to create with this one later

 

[Daniel son STL]

Jbp - before



-After


With all the talk of fall repotting I gave this one some new shoes. Basically slip potted this into a smaller pot lol. Shoke out a little old soil and squeezed it in with out pruning a single root. I think it will be just fine!

Jbp- before


-after

Slip potted this into a bigger pot. Gonna let that right lower branch go as long as possible

Anyways I’m happy with how these little guys turned out.
Lmk what everybody else thinks.
Thanks

 

[Shibui]

I don't see any point in wrapping with raffia for slight bends, especially on flexible species like most pines. Raffia is used when making tight bends where the trunk or branch could snap or for brittle species.

 

[Daniel son STL]

I don't see any point in wrapping with raffia for slight bends, especially on flexible species like most pines. Raffia is used when making tight bends where the trunk or branch could snap or for brittle species.

I thought the point of raffia was to look more official/Japanese lol.
These all needed raffia. I explained earlier these were pretty stiff. Even with the the raffia I bent two trees too far and snapped the trunks. Had to bend them back to hold the wound closed and keeping fingers crossed they heal. I think I needed more raffia but ran out lol