The Shohin Tree Thread
- Thread starter Brian Van Fleet
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MHBonsai
Chumono
misfit11
Omono
Wow! I absolutely love this. Is it really shohin size!?
The quality of trees on this site has really been elevating these last few years! Keep up the good work everyone! Let's take it to new heights in 2025!!
Shohin Olive I've been working on
MHBonsai
Chumono
Ixora doing its winter thing
MHBonsai
Chumono
It’s pushing it size wise. It won’t fit in a box stand while it’s in leaf for sure. About 10” from lip of the pot, the pots 7.5” wide.
SeanS
Omono
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Couple of small ginkgos 
SeanS
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Elaeagnus group planting. These rooted cuttings were the result of sticking a few off-cut shoots directly into the large nursery pot of another eleagnus without any rooting hormone, humidity control or real aftercare 
badatusernames
Omono
This one is starting to fill in a bit
The one in the yellow pot self defoliated despite being under grow lights, warm, and humid but it has bright red buds so it’s ok but you can see the leaves on this one yellowing too
I’ve put them in a location with gentler light but still warm, I figure if they did this under a grow light they need some kind of break
Faisal Ahmad
Mame
Morning with water jasmine
stewarjm192
Mame
Here’s a little American Larch I’ve been working on for a few years. This was last winter I believe, 2023
MACH5
Imperial Masterpiece
Zelkova in classic broom.
MHBonsai
Chumono
Japanese gardenia doing its thing.
badatusernames
Omono
A work in progress chojubai. I think I actually got this from Shannon Salyer when I went to Bjorn’s open house and drove out to his place as well. He has fantastic Shohin.
I put it in a three-tier contraption: 4” pot with pumice, 5-6” (I forget) pond basket with large grain a/p/l, and a terracotta grow pot with normal stuff
I removed the 4” portion at the end of last year and was happy to see chunky winding roots growing. In a year or two I’ll remove the pond basket and see what’s under there, then I’ll figure out what’s next.
I am looking forward to seeing what suckers throw from the roots - I think the goal is to eventually get rid of the “main trunk” and allow the dense thick roots to throw suckers that you use to make the tree. So you get a thick base with wildness growing from it.
Biggest concern is that I think I should have only cut of 1/2 of the 4” pot this year and let the bottom go a bit more feral before taking it off entirely.
I put it in a three-tier contraption: 4” pot with pumice, 5-6” (I forget) pond basket with large grain a/p/l, and a terracotta grow pot with normal stuff
I removed the 4” portion at the end of last year and was happy to see chunky winding roots growing. In a year or two I’ll remove the pond basket and see what’s under there, then I’ll figure out what’s next.
I am looking forward to seeing what suckers throw from the roots - I think the goal is to eventually get rid of the “main trunk” and allow the dense thick roots to throw suckers that you use to make the tree. So you get a thick base with wildness growing from it.
Biggest concern is that I think I should have only cut of 1/2 of the 4” pot this year and let the bottom go a bit more feral before taking it off entirely.
badatusernames
Omono
This is sort of what I'm talking about but not quite
I mean the little dudes that look like a potato of roots with dense close ramification
It'll tell me where to go, might not end up where I thought
SeanS
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@badatusernames I'm doing the same. Small chojubai cutting that I grew in a small round pot for a season to get the roots to circle and form a round shape. This past spring I placed the circling root mass on top of a larger plastic pot and covered the roots with a cut down pot. Once I saw roots coming out the bottom of the bigger pot I started exposing the upper root mass, which then started to sucker.
