The Shohin Tree Thread

[SeanS]

Repot today for 2 small Japanese maples, grown from seed

 

[Housguy]

Shimpaku

 

[SeanS]

Celtis sinensis shohin repotted. Grown through a washer

 

[SeanS]

Chinese quince dug up from the grow bed, 2 years from seed!
Also grown through a washer.

 

[SeanS]

Dug up another one after work. I intentionally squished the little stone between the coils of the trunk earlier last season when the gap was still fairly open and big enough for the stone. It’s now completely lodged in there! Tomorrow I’ll wire up the long shoot to form the rest of the trunk.
Open to ideas of how to wire/style the shoot
The root base below the sphagnum and top layer of soil is
These seedlings have spent only 1 year in the ground and were germinated in spring 2022. There’s a screenshot from an IG story at the bottom from when I was potting them up individually in October 2022.
Anyone who isn’t growing these needs to get on it!

 

[Faisal Ahmad]

Repot my Premna from plastic container to bonsai Pot

 

[SeanS]

JM clump, started from air layer

 

[SeanS]

Crabapple

 

[SeanS]

Couple of silverberrries

 

[SeanS]

Multi trunk trident. Only pot I had that it would fit in, the base pretty much fills the pot just below the soil line

 

[SeanS]

Mine ROR trident created with multiple seedlings 3 seasons ago.

 

[SeanS]

Neagari JM from a cutting

 

[SeanS]

Miniature rose. Decided to change the style and stick a small stone between the roots



What is looked like previously, I was never really happy it like this. I feel the new direction gives a better sense of old age

 

[SeanS]

Another small crabapple, from a root cutting off a large landscape tree in our garden. Malus atropurpurea (I think the cultivar is Liset)

 

[SeanS]

Another Chinese quince dug up and potted up. Very cool base under the top layer of soil. When I planted these in the ground I wrapped the roots up into a tight little coil, which has resulted in a very interesting fat little base!
2 seasons old from seed.

 

[SeanS]

Trident

 

[Perplexody]

i won the mame/shohin bonsai category at my local show

 

[badatusernames]

Little Chinese elm

 

[badatusernames]

White pine

I’ve had this for a couple years but was mostly letting it grow. I wired it, but it was at a workshop, and Suthin was the one to actually shape it. It taught me a lot - it’s hard to see in the photos, but there are three distinct pads with subtle movement to them - lower left, right, apex - and seeing how he was able to accomplish this at such a small scale and such minimal foliage was eye opening. 2nd gen Yamaaki pot.



For color, I had attempted to wire it last year, but wasn't happy with what I had done and removed the wire shortly after. The above is a year later, so it's a BIT more filled out, but not much. Bigei pot. I will not be repotting this again soon, I just wanted it in something deeper so I changed it this year with minimal root pruning. When I do repot again, I think that root at the front needs to go.



Thought it would be interesting to compare the results between a master and a regular ol' bonsai enthusiast

 

[Hartinez]

Shohin Piñon pine. Needs to bark up, but the needles on his one are smaller than most I find.