Itoigawa upgrade

[fourteener]

Every year I get rid of several lesser trees to buy something nice . I sold 10 trees at the MN Bonsai auction last Saturday and used the proceeds to purchase this tree from Don Blackmond. I took some liberties to restyle it a bit this morning. Here are the before and after pics...

 

[JudyB]

Cool tree. Love the pot too. Thinning the herd is good....

 

[Eric Group]

Every year I get rid of several lesser trees to buy something nice . I sold 10 trees at the MN Bonsai auction last Saturday and used the proceeds to purchase this tree from Don Blackmond. I took some liberties to restyle it a bit this morning. Here are the before and after pics...

Cool tree! Great movement in that trunk... I have started to really enjoy those twisty trunk Junis lately...

Do you mind if I ask what changes you made? The only difference I see is it looks like a new dose of Lime sulfur was added to the Shari...

I think a little wiring of the foliage to tighten it up and get some layers going along with the clipping off a few errant shoots would take this from a nice tree to a "finished" one pretty quick!

 

[fourteener]

I removed about a third of the foliage from the bottom of the mass in the first photo. The main difference is that now you can see the trunk line in it's entirety instead of being obscured by the foliage. Also the bulk of the foliage is a lot lower than before.

Already cutting off the foliage I decided to not mess with the good strong growth being thrown out in what I left on the tree. I'll let it start responding to what I've already done before I mess with pruning what remains.

I did not Lime Sulpher the tree, it just looks that way because I pulled off some of the gray bark to reveal the cinnamon brown bark underneath. There is a lot more to do, I just took off what was easy.

I didn't do anything radical, but again the trunk is the show. The foliage should not be. Conifers look best when the trunks are not hidden behind foliage. This trunk certainly doesn't disappoint. Which is why I bought it!!

 

[Neli]

Very interesting tree. I love it.
When a juniper is like that and in need of wiring. I dont do much of cutting but try to wire it and position the branches before cutting it. Then I know what I need and I dont easier.

 

[Gabe]

Very nice tree

Every year I get rid of several lesser trees to buy something nice . I sold 10 trees at the MN Bonsai auction last Saturday and used the proceeds to purchase this tree from Don Blackmond. I took some liberties to restyle it a bit this morning. Here are the before and after pics...

Beautiful tree wow

I am looking to learn how to do shari like that.

Do you know how this is accomplished.

There was an episode of Lindsay farr's World of Bonsai that showed a guy drawing a spiral up the trunk and cutting along it to produce a similar result but would like more detail.

 

[KennedyMarx]

Wow! I love the trunk.

 

[october]

Beautiful tree and exquisite shari! It looks like this shari was created a while back, perhaps more than 4 years or much longer ago.

Rob

 

[FrankP999]

Is is safe to slip pot these now? I have two that are really pot bound in a heavy nursery soil. I would just put them into a one or two inch larger bulb pan with pumice and lava in the gap.