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Thank you for the encouragement @j evans and @kobusbonsainut ! I noticed these white edges on the leaves, any one know what this could be from? I didn't repot it this year. I got an air layer I will separate soon and those leaves are affected too.

Here's a couple more shots of the live vein.

I'll have to give the wire brush a try. I was peeling off parts of the live vein, but some parts were really stuck on there and I couldn't get down to the red. But then other parts were so thin, I went through the red and nicked the white part underneath. It just seems really hard to get the...

Yeah this spring I repotted it again and put it in a anderson flat, so it is much lower now. I just wish I had gotten some stock to do root grafts.

Update --last spring before repot. After repot. spring leaves coming out. This spring. I wanted to do a ton of root grafts, but never did. This year, before repot. Didn't put on a lot of growth last year. D I'll upload a shot after repot soon.

Trying to keep this thread updated. This was from this spring, before repot. Repotted a couple weeks ago, cleaned up the vein a bit too. Need to whiten and preserve the dead wood, and still need to style it. Had a bit of wire biting in for some initial movement, but need to really get...

Thanks everyone, well I know what I'm doing today!

I have tons of these little white oval things all over my tree. I saw them in the winter and they seemed really hard, couldn't get them off. But now, they are scraping off really easily and there's like this reddish brown stuff that smears when I scrape them. Are they some kind of insect egg?

Found 2 of these at a nursery, it looks like some kind of elm, but what are your expert opinions?

@cbroad what would you suggest I do to secure the new air layer in the new container? I was thinking of wrapping a heavy gauge wire around the trunk and just trying to drive it down in the soil?

The sphagnum was cut already into pretty small pieces, so yeah hopefully it'll be easy to separate out when the time comes. I'm just nervous to even touch them at all. Are you liking the 50/50 perlite/shagnum mix? I might try that.

When seperating air layers, is it best to not disturb the new roots at all and just plant the sphagnum miss root ball in a new pot without touching them? Can you spread them out a little? I've only done this once before and I really overworked the new roots, spreading them too much and it...

What's going on here? -- Turns from green trunk to red, is there a graft union there? The close up of the lower trunk and roots don't look grafted to me.

A third option could be to air layer it a little higher than your line. Nice chance to practice another bonsai technique and you'd potentially get a second tree for free.

Really amazing tree. And a wonderful story to go with it!