Jpb 20 year progression (with errors inside)

[Alain BERTRAND]

This is a jpb grown from seed taken from my parent neighbor backyard, sown in spring 2001. It has been grown exclusively in a pot, never bigger than 20 liters.
2004 and already 2 errors :

• first curve is softer than second's
• no need to trim the apex and primary branches should have been cut shorter
  

 

[Alain BERTRAND]

2005 repot and another error: big roots should have been trimmed shorter.
The first error already begins to show its effect.

 

[Alain BERTRAND]

2009: the effect of the first error is plainly visible : there is an conicity inversion. Quite put out, I stopped taking pictures of it and started waiting that the neagari's growth absorb the inverse conicity.

2021: the conicity problem is mostly resolved. The needles are a little bit far from the trunk but it is not to bad. Part of the nebari is fused, i like it well. There is a big scar on the back where the sacrifice branche was.
The tray is a 12 L tray, so it is rather a fat tree.

Thanks for watching.

 

[Wilson]

Good work Alain, it will be very satisfying for you to see this tree become a wonderful bonsai.

 

[qwerty Bonsai]

2009: the effect of the first error is plainly visible : there is an conicity inversion. Quite put out, I stopped taking pictures of it and started waiting that the neagari's growth absorb the inverse conicity.
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2021: the conicity problem is mostly resolved. The needles are a little bit far from the trunk but it is not to bad. Part of the nebari is fused, i like it well. There is a big scar on the back where the sacrifice branche was.
The tray is a 12 L tray, so it is rather a fat tree.
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Thanks for watching.

wow，twenty years shown in a short post ...

 

[JeffS73]

Alain, thank you for this progression, very helpful to those of us closer to the beginning of (hopefully) 20 years. It teaches us how early decisions play out over the long term.

Can you say exactly what you think caused the inversion? Too much lateral growth low down? Low bend too tight? Or chopping the leader?

You have done well to recover something difficult, and you have a tree with some character.

 

[Alain BERTRAND]

When a trunk fattens, inner surfaces fuse and thus, trunks fattens more in the inner part of a curve than on the outside. The stiffer the curve, the bigger the enlargement. So when you form a young tree with stiff curves, their stiffness should always decrease from bottom to top.

 

[sorce]

I misread the b for an a in the title and thought for a second this was a meme thread!

Nice tree!

Stay Free!

Sorce

 

[AnutterBonsai]

how's the tree looking this year?