Any good cedrus bonsai

[fourteener]

That's great to hear! I was very pleased with having initially turned such unlikely material into something with so much potential, and sounds like you were the right person to carry it forward. It'd would be great to see the photo if you can find it. Thanks.

Late in the summer of 2014


Early Spring 2015

End of summer 2015

 

[grouper52]

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End of summer 2015

That's looking great, and a very nice progression! Great to see what you've done with it so far.

 

[LanceMac10]

flee..flee for your lives..guywires!!
.....at least I think it is cedar.....hehehehehe...

 

[Adair M]

I see. Guy wires.

Why?

I see you have some degree of skill with wire. So why don't you use traditional wiring?

With a guy wire, you're pulling branches down. But you're not controlling secondary branches.

Here's my Atlas Cedar. I do have one guy wire. But, every branch, secondary branch, and tertiary branch is wired. Can you see them? No. Maybe if you look VERY closely. Look at my pads. Tight. The branches are controlled and directed.

 

[Adair M]

Lance, cedars are very sappy. The wood is very springy. They don't "train" very well. That is, bends that we put in with wire (and especially guy wires) don't stay where we placed them when the wire is removed.

Which means that the tree wil always have wire on it.

Guy wires are regarded as a short term solution. Wire the tree, use guy wire to give additional support. But the plan is to eventually remove the guy wire.

In a show, a guy wire is considered a major fault. If a guy wire is hidden in the canopy, you can get away with it, but you can't show with obvious guy wires.

Anyway, the point in making is your tree won't keep its shape without wire. If you only use guy wires, it will always have guy wires.

On the other hand, traditional wiring is allowed in shows. As long as it's done skillfully and it doesn't detract from the image.

My tree will always have wire on it. It's just the nature of Atlas Cedar. I last showed it at the Knoxville club's show last June. No guy wire, but otherwise fully wired.

 

[Potawatomi13]

No Deodara, but Brevifolia, Blue Atlas and Golden Atlas

Those are some great pots.

 

[Potawatomi13]

Love the dark green cedars but never see any around here. I did buy this tree over the summer, its a Cedrus deodara aurea.
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I intended to air layer the straight top part and trunk chop it, but I grew attached to its gracefulness and may plant it in the landscape.

This tree put out a lot of growth over the past month or so which seems unusual, but a neighbor's mature landscape cedar did the same thing. I didn't have the tree in the spring to see if it has two sets of needle growths, spring and fall.

I also found this link in an old post showing some pretty serious trunk bends, so maybe I'll squash it down into a training pot after all. http://bonsaibpsbonsaiblog-bonsai.blogspot.com/2010/08/making-big-bend.html

CW

If you could layer it above the first branch and plant the layered part you could have both.

 

[Shima]

Thank you for the link.
I am about to make some bends on a straight Cedrus deodara very similar to the photo above.
Which is the best time to do this kind of work?
Currently the weather is still hot in my country. I can keep the tree after the intervention protected from sun and wind.
Thank you in advance.

Careful! They snap like a carrot.

 

[Shima]

3 pages and no one's mentioned Jim Gremel? Sheesh!
JimGremel.com