Need help with styling

[Xavier]

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this forum, I need help with styling my pine.
Thanks

 

[Vance Wood]

Without being able to see all of the branches in the upper portion of this tree and examine their strengths and weaknesses I would say a good possibility would be to wrap the entire length of the trunk above the large trunk in raffia, put several coils of heavy wire around it and carefully tighten up the bends and turns already present, to bring down the canopy as near to just above the heavy trunk as possible. From there, how you train the new height of the tree should be fairly routine.

 

[Poink88]

When was this collected? (if it was)
When was it pruned? How much?
What kind of substrate is it on? Since when?

 

[Poink88]

Is that Cattleya planted on the same pot?

 

[bonsai barry]

I think this tree has some interesting potential. As Vance mentioned, some bending and some carving are in order. It would be a challenging tree to work on. It would be great if you could find a local bonsai club and enlist the help of someone with more expertise.

 

[Xavier]

Dario,

I collected this tree about a year ago, and did not prune I just chop off all the branches except one. Currently, it is on potting mix with tree bark.
And yes, that is at Cat that you see at the bottom.

 

[Vance Wood]

Dario,

I collected this tree about a year ago, and did not prune I just chop off all the branches except one. Currently, it is on potting mix with tree bark.
And yes, that is at Cat that you see at the bottom.

If you only collected this tree a year ago I would suggest giving it another year or two before putting it through a lot of bonsai training. Generally a collected tree takes two to three growing seasons to recover and become acclimated to growing in a pot culture. Looks a lot like Lodge Pole and a bit like Scots Pine. Where are you from and do you know what species of Pine you are dealing with?

Found your location: It's probably Lodge Pole.

 

[Poink88]

I was going to say that the soil looks too fine but if a Cattleya thrives there for a year then it must be alright.

You have a very nice tree that seems can be bent easily...just study before you do it. Or as suggested, get someone to help you.

Bending is easy...proper styling is another. Hopefully, someone can do a virt for you to shoot for.

Good luck!!!

 

[Vance Wood]

I was going to say that the soil looks too fine but if a Cattleya thrives there for a year then it must be alright.

You have a very nice tree that seems can be bent easily...just study before you do it. Or as suggested, get someone to help you.

Bending is easy...proper styling is another. Hopefully, someone can do a virt for you to shoot for.

Good luck!!!

I agree but the tree may be stiffer than you can imagine. Collected trees often have some pretty stubborn wood, I have run into that problem with some nursery trees, consider if the wood is fifty years old. Collected trees are an entirely different animal beginning to end.

 

[Xavier]

Thank you to Vance and Dario.
That branch is bendable but trying to get the foliage close to the main trunk is not easy.
If that wont work, what other stylings do you guy recommend?

 

[jkd2572]

Find out techniques to bring the skinny part closer to the fat pat. Hen wire everything down. It could be great.