How does this kishu juniper look after styling! This is my first try at styling.

[JustALoneSpirit]

4 months in bonsai terms is nothing

For beginners and even many more experienced people it is good practice to keep to one insult a year

For example I gave some pines their first styling in September, now I won't repot them this spring as planned, by the time I wait til September its the wrong time of year so it will be spring 26 they get repotted.

The tree is still green, but for junipers that doesn't mean much at all, it has now lost a fair amount of the foliage mass that was helping it recover from the repot.

it's good to experiment, Sure, but when something has been around as long as bonsai there have already been so many people trying what you are doing that it is clear to those of us who have seen it how this will end. There are similar posts on this forum and no doubt documented elsewhere

Please continue to post updates on this tree, you have been happy to tell us it will work, and maybe you're right, but if it eventually dies I would like to hear your reasoning

Missed dormancy and not proper dormancy can take a few years, the tree slowly burns out and then dies.

I am currently having an early winter in my area it was -4 a couple nights ago and we already had snow and ice, I would love a full year growing season like you seem to have, do you have any native trees that don't require all this effort?

I understand your point. I crave for temperate trees. And let me tell you I did not take of more than 10% of the foliage. I widened out the branches. Well well, except for junipers and maples, I've got a cypress that grows in tropical areas and is used for hedges here, I have a podocarpus gracilior too. Btw, I got juniper cuttings from a local place which is indeed also tropical. Well, nothing else looks better than the gorgeous fall colors of japanese maples and the dense green foliage of junipers is matched out with the lovely cypress, tho it is a little more coarse. I do not plan on having more temperate species except for a japanese black pine, an itoigawa and a katsura and a deshojo, upon that, I will get them only if I succeed. Thanks for the advice, I'll take the insult too. I'll give my best shot and if it fails, no worries, I'll move more into tropicals. I've not been able to source a brazilian raintree somewhere. Btw I've got this batch of cuttings and an air layer to experiment indoor dormancy on.