Blue jacaranda

[eldoctor]

Got it from those beginner kits of amazon , and it's now 2 years ,it was growing so high , 5 days ago I cut it down a bit and wired it for trying to give it the shape , from all I read and seen On YouTube , but have no clue what I'm doing .

. .. cut the leafs , or just cut them to little small branches

....what is this brown on the Leafs branches mean ?

Thank you , middle life crise issues lol but such quite a enjoyable hobbie

 

[Tums]

I think you should try and carefully cut the wire off. Making complete circles around the trunk like that is going to choke the tree. Here's a good video if you want to try redoing it afterwards: https://www.craftsy.com/class/bonsai-wiring-essentials/

As for pruning, your tree doesn't actually have any branches yet. Jacarandas have compound leaves, so each "branch" is actually just an individual leaf. You won't get any branching if you cut part of it off. I don't know what the brown parts are. If they brush off, they could be insects. Otherwise I wouldn't worry too much about it.

 

[Cilrah]

Hi. I thought the brown on the branches of your Jacaranda were parasites but maybe not. I sprayed it with neem oil and that seemed to help. I think actually bringing it out for the summer was best. I just brought it back in for winter and now the brown stuff is coming back. Maybe not a parasite, I need to research this more.

 

[Wulfskaar]

I think with jacarandas, you want to let them grow until the trunk is as thick as you want, then chop to get back budding and develop the branches after the that.

I think all that wire should be removed because only the lower trunk would eventually be used in a finished bonsai. Also, the wiring is done very poorly. If you want to wire the whole thing, it should be redone anyways and focus mainly on the lower trunk and branches.

Good luck!