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Hey Bnut, longtime lurker, first time posting. I've only been growing bonsai for a short time, maybe 3 or 4 years. Never attended a single meeting, never belonged to a club, never knew another person who seriously practiced bonsai. My venture thus far has been autodidactic, so cut me some slack!
About a month ago I assembled my first (attempted) forest, a near view with 5 elms that I'd grown from seed, hence the variation in leaf size. All 5 have leafed out now, with 3 of the trees having already hardened off their initial flush.
I'm afraid if I don't stay on top of them the reverse taper will soon begin, and you guys know how vigorous parvifolia is. I'm also only quasi-embarrassed about this composition, so I'd like it to see it grow to become a decent forest someday.
I'm fine to go ahead and begin at least keeping things in check on the more vigorous trees, right? Especially the apical whorls, that's what I'm really concerned about causing problems. Not going to work the smallest trees yet, they haven't leafed out enough to warrant it.
Pardon the angle and background, they aren't anything close to acceptable because I just snapped a pic in haste for this post (and bc it's only a month-old planting in a cheap stock pot, come on!)
About a month ago I assembled my first (attempted) forest, a near view with 5 elms that I'd grown from seed, hence the variation in leaf size. All 5 have leafed out now, with 3 of the trees having already hardened off their initial flush.
I'm afraid if I don't stay on top of them the reverse taper will soon begin, and you guys know how vigorous parvifolia is. I'm also only quasi-embarrassed about this composition, so I'd like it to see it grow to become a decent forest someday.
I'm fine to go ahead and begin at least keeping things in check on the more vigorous trees, right? Especially the apical whorls, that's what I'm really concerned about causing problems. Not going to work the smallest trees yet, they haven't leafed out enough to warrant it.
Pardon the angle and background, they aren't anything close to acceptable because I just snapped a pic in haste for this post (and bc it's only a month-old planting in a cheap stock pot, come on!)