victorengel
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Hello,
This is my first post. I've seen a thread here and there from lurking over time. I've been occasionally growing bonsai for a couple decades, but don't have any that have been with me the whole time. I've worked mostly with deciduous trees, but also an occasional juniper. My favorite project was a bur oak. My latest project is a crepe myrtle that a neighbor dug up and gave away. Looking at the pictures of it lying on the ground, I thought it had potential as a bonsai, so I offered to pick it up. That was 2 or 3 weeks ago. So for now I've only done some rough pruning, cleaning out some dead wood, and removing material I knew I didn't want. Then I did another round of pruning and a small bit of wiring. The wiring is only to prevent apex domination from adding new growth only at the apex. This past weekend, I took some photos, and now I'm waiting to see where the growth will be. I like some of the movement in some of these branches, but I think quite a bit still needs to go. What I don't want to do is to create a bonsai with a fat trunk and a bunch of little branches sticking out like a pincushion.
Anyway, I'd be interested to see others' opinions of work that needs to happen. If you could take a look at my photos, I'd appreciate any feedback you may have. I realize it's difficult with 2D photos, so I took some stereo pairs and arranged them for cross-eye viewing. Here's my current set of images for this plant.
P.S. I am in Austin, Texas.
This is my first post. I've seen a thread here and there from lurking over time. I've been occasionally growing bonsai for a couple decades, but don't have any that have been with me the whole time. I've worked mostly with deciduous trees, but also an occasional juniper. My favorite project was a bur oak. My latest project is a crepe myrtle that a neighbor dug up and gave away. Looking at the pictures of it lying on the ground, I thought it had potential as a bonsai, so I offered to pick it up. That was 2 or 3 weeks ago. So for now I've only done some rough pruning, cleaning out some dead wood, and removing material I knew I didn't want. Then I did another round of pruning and a small bit of wiring. The wiring is only to prevent apex domination from adding new growth only at the apex. This past weekend, I took some photos, and now I'm waiting to see where the growth will be. I like some of the movement in some of these branches, but I think quite a bit still needs to go. What I don't want to do is to create a bonsai with a fat trunk and a bunch of little branches sticking out like a pincushion.
Anyway, I'd be interested to see others' opinions of work that needs to happen. If you could take a look at my photos, I'd appreciate any feedback you may have. I realize it's difficult with 2D photos, so I took some stereo pairs and arranged them for cross-eye viewing. Here's my current set of images for this plant.
P.S. I am in Austin, Texas.
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