Is it too late in the season to trunk chop a chinese juniper???

[Cypress]

Hahaha. No, I haven't met Bill V or attended any of the upstate NY society's meetings but hopefully I'll make it up to rochester for one soon.

 

[Adair M]

Well, you should. Bill V is good people. Back in the day when he was first getting started publishing his magazine, he came to the Atlanta Bonsai Society for a workshop. And he stayed at my house. It is amazing to see how his International Bonsai magazine has evolved over the years, and how well respected in the bonsai community he is.

One of these years I need to take one of his Japan tours.

 

[Vance Wood]

Thank you Vance for replying. I hope it does work out for the tree. If it does, it will go against the traditional thinking of not removing more than around 30% of a juniper at one time. However, it should be mentioned that just because this might work in this case. I would not want others to think that it is normally ok to remove 70-80% of a juniper.

Rob

This is debatable. If you remember or, if you saw my video of a Shimpaku Juniper; this tree's history starts out as a 2-3 gallon nursery tree reduced, styled and wired and repotted for the first time the last of June when the temperature was in the high 80's and low 90's. This was done as a demonstration for The Four Seasons Bonsai Club annual show.

[video=youtube;3_k6MT-BTi8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3_k6MT-BTi8#t=0[/video]

Personally I think a lot of information floating around today about Junipers is crap but I really don't wish to make new enemies by starting arguments. The fact remains I have been doing a lot of things with Junipers for longer than some of you have years on Earth and now I find I am being told I am doing it wrong. I will admit that I now do only Shimpaku Junipers and I do them when I feel like doing them. San Jose Junipers no longer fall under my abuse because I do not care for the tree, but I have done them in the middle of the summer as well and they survived until they were sold or given away.

CORRECTION; I have made mention of this Juniper being under construction since the late 80's, I just located the VHS videos I did of this tree's start as a bonsai in 1993

 

[A Random User]

Just thought, that from now on I would come and talk crap on your threads,
seeing that you have felt it your civic duty to try and trash mine.

 

[Vance Wood]

Just thought, that from now on I would come and talk crap on your threads,
seeing that you have felt it your civic duty to try and trash mine.

I'm not aware that I was trashing your thread. If you believe that to be so I apologize, it was not my intention. This thread was started by Cypress Yamadori, this is not even your thread. What thread are you talking about?

 

[fourteener]

I'm not aware that I was trashing your thread. If you believe that to be so I apologize, it was not my intention. This thread was started by Cypress Yamadori, this is not even your thread. What thread are you talking about?

Sawgrass is running around and urinating on every thread of Cypress. Trying to mark his territory I guess.

 

[coh]

sawgrass may have a relatively mature, developed approach to bonsai, but he is very immature when it comes to interacting with people. He has demonstrated that many times in the past, and it has really been evident the past couple of days. Best, I think, to just let him rant away in his own "look at me" threads.

Cypress, if you make it to a BSUNY meeting or the national exhibition this fall, let me know.

Chris