Opinions on a Dan Robinson idea about thickening the trunk?

[Deep Sea Diver]

There is right and there is right, and there is everything in between.

Perhaps another stray, yet associated thought….

“Is I right or is I left?”.… BFG by Ronald Dahl

Happy New Year!
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[WNC Bonsai]

Yup, this is what I have been theorizing too re. something I see happening in a garden near me.

A befriended bonsai couple near me never allows their trees to grow out. They start pinching from day one. Heavy fertilizer. In a bonsai pot. Full sun. And they get trunk development to the max, where people see trees they bought a few years before as nursery pencils, and now are show-worthy, several inch thick maples.
I think this was 12 years in a pot, from a cutting.

Good subject for an interview and garden visit on your channel!

 

[penumbra]

I have a Japanese Whit Pine that has been in a grow box for 34 years. It is a cultivar of unknown origin and has quite a swollen rootstock, so bonsai its not. I'll have to get a picture of it when its not drizzly and cold outside.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

For styling Dan far prefers guy wires

Tell Dan he shouldn't trust me with styling. I'm not good at it, yet.

 

[leatherback]

Tell Dan he shouldn't trust me with styling. I'm not good at it, yet.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I *think* he might not have been referring to you!?

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Tell Dan he shouldn't trust me with styling. I'm not good at it, yet.

Totally a general comment….

cheers
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[Srt8madness]

Don't take this the wrong way, but I *think* he might not have been referring to you!?

His handle is guy wires. You guys should lighten up a bit!

 

[Kodama]

Strange how timely this thread got resurrected as I just stumbled on a Dan Robinson youtube video last night for the first time. David Easterbrook was touring his amazing garden and talking about not repotting and I was like say what? Rewind. Fascinating chat about him noticing in nature how young trees growing straight up until ultimately mature where top dies off and new side growth becomes twisted and Gnarly! I'm now inspired to go buy that book and learn more.

 

[leatherback]

His handle is guy wires. You guys should lighten up a bit!

ohw, you think I was serious?