Jades and Junipers

nurvbonsai

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Happy New Year. Over the past few months, I have been working on this project and am interested in hearing your views on its potential for use in mame and bonsai, particularly with respect to the juniper. In addition, I have successfully propagated jade cuttings and placed them in various containers to monitor their progress. Sadly, a few have perished in the small forest setting. Thank you.
 

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You can use the junipers for bonsai.
Mame? Maybe. Not the tallest one though, that's going to be impossible.

You did good by not clipping off all interior foliage. Bonsaify on youtube has good guides about developing junipers!
I did a couple pictorials myself: https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/guy_wires-collection.33136/post-1096562
 
Oh I wasn’t meaning to suggest the juniper was going to be mame. My instructor at the workshop suggested that I could pot up into
bonsai pot in the spring. Regarding jades I was hoping they would develop into mame.
 
I will not help you with any jades with all due respect to you, I think they're the ugliest plant in the world and I do not support their use in bonsai for a plethora of reasons. I wish you a lot of good luck with them though!

Regarding the juniper, I would grow it out a bit more. I've noticed they slow down to a grinding halt when the roots are in a bonsai pot so I want to suggest you keep it in the pot and soil it's in right now for developmental purposes. It speeds up the development by about 5x if it has plenty of roots and root space. When you're near the trunk size you desire it to be, with a solid amount of growth during the growing season too, you can consider potting it down.
That juniper that I posted first, the one I worked from the top down, is exploding with growth - I did not repot it. Whereas the one that now pollutes your thread, sorry for that, is basically at the same point I hacked it to in 2021. Not an inch of growth has added to it.
 
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