Birds Nest Spruce #2

[Bonsai Forest]

Brought home from work today

Robust!



Let’s take a look under the hood

Interesting root crossing (possible front)

Using organic and pumice mix for now






Likely front but the low lateral branch seems almost parallel to the crossing root and I’m not diggin it

chop chop

Possible front but root steps toward viewer.. though cool visual and layering either way


Likely to apply wire tomorrow but open to suggestions for structural styling of primaries and secondaries.

 

[Scorpius]

Leave it alone for a year and see if it survives that repot. One major offense per year.

 

[Bonsai Forest]

Leave it alone for a year and see if it survives that repot. One major offense per year.

I have faith! My others survived the same

 

[TrevorLarsen]

It has some real potential in my opinion. It will be interesting to see it progress.

 

[Dabbler]

I can't say I would have picked that up but any tree with time can be made to something and don't wire it - you will kill it or weaken it. You need to slow down a bit with these guys, if you wire now after a repot you'll be breaking roots and stressing the tree by forcing repair on branches and roots.

 

[Bonsai Forest]

I can't say I would have picked that up but any tree with time can be made to something and don't wire it - you will kill it or weaken it. You need to slow down a bit with these guys, if you wire now after a repot you'll be breaking roots and stressing the tree by forcing repair on branches and roots.

Thanks! Will wait to wire

 

[Dabbler]

Spruce, least the way I do it, need to be wired at the end of winter when it's still dormant and the sap is not moving, but not going have to endure the whole of winter - I'm in VA too so Feb/January is when I do all the spruce work. Right now just watch the water and fertilize well. if it responds well then you can wire/trim winter 2024/25

 

[Japonicus]

I'm not sure how to link a thread when using the app yet but if you search

Little Jim Picea abies Ultra Dwarf​

You'll find what I did that caused mine to fail perhaps. I potted it up March 2020 and selective pruning later that year. No posts in the thread after that August.
Glad you've had success with others with this approach.