Styling Suggestions! Please!

[vaibatron]

I bought this one a year and change ago. Let it grow all last season in the nursery pot and has put on considerable growth after two large chops and a repot done in early June this year. Now... I'm stumped (pun intended ).. Can't decided where I want to go with it. I will obviously be letting it grow for another year or two before doing any serious work. Just trying to develop a game plan! Critiques, suggestions? Bring it on!

 

[larlamonde]

I think one if not both of the small lower branches has to go.

 

[vaibatron]

I agree. I initially keep them as sacrifice branching to thicken up the trunk. However, if I were to leave one, I think I could do a second chop taking a third off, I could keep the lower outer most branch for a twin trunk styling. But I'm more incline to hack both and work on initial and tertiary branching. Thanks for the look and post!

 

[iant]

I think my neck has a bad kink now. Does anyone know a good physical therapist?
Ian

 

[larlamonde]

I think one if not both of the small lower branches has to go.

Good plan. Nice little tree!

 

[vaibatron]

Sorry Ian! I just bought an iPhone... A year late or two?

 

[Eric Group]

I think you could make a nice multi trunk tree here, but you should plant it a bit lower and maybe lean it a bit to one side... Would take seeing it in person to tell if/ which way it needs to lean.

 

[RustyNail]

i turned the pictures easier to see. what species is it.

 

[sorce]

There is absolutely no fun in that big trunk. IMO. Just too straight.

I would consider it my sacrifice branch.

The 2 others have a lil movement, and the youth to create more moves, more taper, compact.
Another good call by Eric. Maybe even tipped to a cascade.

Please don't cut the shorties!.

Sorce

 

[vaibatron]

Sorce I believe Eric was referring to a twin trunk and keeping the main trunk.. Maybe not

 

[Cadillactaste]

I think you could make a nice multi trunk tree here, but you should plant it a bit lower and maybe lean it a bit to one side... Would take seeing it in person to tell if/ which way it needs to lean.

I just am not seeing a multi trunk tree here. The placement of the two smaller trunks are a bit odd for my mind to see it. I see a father/son tree maybe. Because the girth of the main trunk seems far heavier than the smaller ones. But ideally you want that with a father/son,or mother/daughter tree. Until you have a definite visual I would hold off on chopping the smaller two. Do a google image search for father/son bonsai. Or even Mother/daughter. Depends on if you see a more masculine tree...or a feminine tree.

 

[M. Frary]

This is one of my favorite mother daughter trees. It's one of Walter Palls' . Or used to be. It's no longer with us I heard. Some kind of fungal disease.

 

[jk_lewis]

i turned the pictures easier to see. what species is it.

Probably would have been better to EDIT the original text, delete the pictures, and re-post.

But thanks for doing it. Almost no one else of the many who post sideways pictures takes the time or trouble to it. Inconsiderate OAFS.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Probably would have been better to EDIT the original text, delete the pictures, and re-post.

But thanks for doing it. Almost no one else of the many who post sideways pictures takes the time or trouble to it. Inconsiderate OAFS.

Beautiful tree...sad it is no longer with us. That tree's placements of branches. Where the daughters are side by side...work. The posters smaller branches are above one another. Which seem odd placement for daughter or son trees. Or is that my own quirk...and not rule of thumb?

 

[vaibatron]

Jkl, get over it... Advice on the tree is welcome, your cynicism is not.

 

[vaibatron]

Darlene, I was thinking of keeping the small/low outer most branch for a possible mother/daughter tree. It will be some time before this tree goes back under the knife. As to the rule... I'm no expert. Thanks for posting!

 

[Cadillactaste]

Darlene, I was thinking of keeping the small/low outer most branch for a possible mother/daughter tree. It will be some time before this tree goes back under the knife. As to the rule... I'm no expert. Thanks for posting!

That was my thinking too...then, I am not seeing it in person. And...I think it's good for ones to get suggestions. It is also important to see your own vision come through in your tree.

 

[M. Frary]

Probably would have been better to EDIT the original text, delete the pictures, and re-post.

But thanks for doing it. Almost no one else of the many who post sideways pictures takes the time or trouble to it. Inconsiderate OAFS.

It's because people that use apple products have to jump through hoops to get pictures to post upright it seems. See it all of the time. I on the other hand don't even own a computer but do all of my internet stuff on a Motorola RAZR phone. It automatically orients photos correctly when I post. Even when standing on my head. It's simply amazing!

 

[Cadillactaste]

I think too...that when you use an iPhone that it looks right side up to you. But go to another internet source and you notice the strange photo angles. I know that was what happened when I had my iPhone. That was my findings when posting to another forum when I had mine.

 

[jk_lewis]

Jkl, get over it... Advice on the tree is welcome, your cynicism is not.

Thus spake one of the OAFs, methinks.

Bonsai is a quiet, slow, patient art. Any numbskull who is unwilling to post a decent picture of his or her tree, or to take the time to orient it correctly -- ESPECIALLY when asking for help with the tree -- can't (or won't) ever be a passable bonsai artist. He, she, or it, also is unlikely to get help from me.

I'm old, cranky, and have been doing bonsai for a LONG time. I have patience with my trees; not with idiots.

(Actually, I didn't go back to check and I thought the fellow who fixed the pics was the original poster in this thread, so thanks to him again (and YOU ought to thank him too!) while I aim both barrels at you, you ungrateful wretch.)