Chinese Elm, shohin from air layer

@ConorDash,

the windswept, as seen in the drawing is factored to your root sizes.
What you have in your photo image would require the roots to be reversed.

Which is why the drawing is the opposite of your photo image.

Additionally, unless the leaves show the effect of being blown, the plant will look strange.
It is often suggested that the windblown effort be shown leafless.

With such a large root, to balance the plant [ look at Al's effort [ Smoke ]] the canopy would
have to be larger or the large root reduced.

Yes, Health first and good luck with winter.
Good Day
Anthony
Thanks, that's good info,
Shane my root system isn't made for it then! But, I'll get it healthy then think of design :).


A bit of good news about the top half of the tree. It has life!
It's been looking terrible ever since seperation and still does but it at least has signs of life now.

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I have to prune my sejui elm about every 8 days. It is just such a fast grower. If you want this tree to be shoin like smokes trees you need to prune constantly I want my trunk bigger so i keep one sacrafice branch down lower, but once the trunk is whwr i want it, it will be removed.

Rick
Wow, seijus must grow a lot faster in texas. See the one in my logo pic on the left? I pruned that once this year and it looks roughly the way you see it in the pic.
 
Hello,

So this is my little Chinese elm, mallsai that I air layered the top off about 2-3 weeks ago. It's looking a hell of a lot better than the top half is, but that's a different story.
What I wanted to ask, was what kind of paths would people now go down with this?

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Sorry the pictures aren't great.

Personally, I'm only thinking that it should be left till fall, maybe pruned back a little when needed but mostly left till fall, leaves fall off and perhaps then better shaped by pruning back with a future idea in mind.

The other things swimming around in my head, are questions like, whether the trunk should be cut down more? Or whether it should be hard pruned now for a last bit of growth before fall. Or if there's anything that could be done to aid a better nebari, as I'm not sure I ever liked the way that looked.

As you can see, it's very much a cheap first tree that many get, so it has no amazing potential but I'm not going to give up on it. Just going to continue doing what I can and seeing where it takes me. I just want to be efficient with my time, if there's more I can be doing, then I'd like to do it :).

What you do next really depends a lot of whether you are happy with the trunk. If you want to expand one of those branches into the next section of a larger trunk, then I would definitely put this in a bigger training pot and let it grow more or less unrestricted for a while.

Even if just to grow major branches, I would usually up-pot for a while at this stage. In a bonsai pot everything happens slower, but it also happens smaller, so if you like the main structure and just want some small ramified branches from there, then follow what @Smoke says.
 
Wow, seijus must grow a lot faster in texas. See the one in my logo pic on the left? I pruned that once this year and it looks roughly the way you see it in the pic.
It grows pretty fast..it is slowing down some now. Texas has everything a sejiu wants..sun and humidity. My other sejiu never grew this fast.

Rick
 
What you do next really depends a lot of whether you are happy with the trunk. If you want to expand one of those branches into the next section of a larger trunk, then I would definitely put this in a bigger training pot and let it grow more or less unrestricted for a while.

Even if just to grow major branches, I would usually up-pot for a while at this stage. In a bonsai pot everything happens slower, but it also happens smaller, so if you like the main structure and just want some small ramified branches from there, then follow what @Smoke says.

Thank you for the info :) at the moment I just want it get back to health.
 
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