M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I'm conservative. I try to do work at optimal times is all.
Seiju!
- Thread starter JoeR
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JoeR
Masterpiece
quietobserver
Omono
Just re-read this thread from the beginning. Great work JoeR!! I really like the mame you've made out of the layer. Real nice 'bones'.
JoeR
Masterpiece
Thanks! I'm quite satisfied with its progress so far too, especially when you look back at the first picture. Oddly though, the base ballooned from the airlayer (which is a good thing) but it's a little unnatural looking. So I buried some of it with the hopes of making it less bulbous.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
JoeR....
I think you should go hard....
Like the bubble gum in Topps Baseball Cards.
Get that taper.
Starting that right branch over to get it smaller too.
Sorce
I think you should go hard....
Like the bubble gum in Topps Baseball Cards.
Get that taper.
Starting that right branch over to get it smaller too.
Sorce
JoeR
Masterpiece
I'm thinking about cutting it further back, Specificaly that first right branch. Maybe not the top quite as far as your virt however because it's a little too "U" shaped.
I see you're now "Nonsense Rascal" status haha
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
I feel U! Lol.
Thats the only thing that bugs me too...
But I think you can eventually disguise that.
I like it that way because there is definitive movement left.
Not windswept....but sure left.
I've seen it pulled off well in Junipers.
Sorce
quietobserver
Omono
When he lets the foliage fill out I think it'll look less 'U' shaped and just look like a base and low branch with a lot of movement. Nice little tree produced quickly and from existing material so win/win...then just let the bark age and gnarl up.
JoeR
Masterpiece
All these mame (and others not pictures) are descendants of the original Seiju.. I think it's fair to say I've had a LOT of fun making mame from what was originally a quite crappy little elm. All of em need a cutback though so I'll post better pics when I'm home in a week or two.
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M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I'd want to grow them big.
JoeR
Masterpiece
Why?
cmeg1
Imperial Masterpiece
Wow ,you have done great with this material......I laughed hard,way back when Brian made this post,I will never forget it.
Great work!
Great work!
JoeR
Masterpiece
This made me actually LOL again too, that will never get old!! I still have that too, sitting in a box in a growbed...
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
Because when they are bigger,they look more in scale with a tree in nature than just about any other tree.
JoeR
Masterpiece
True, very true. But at the same time, they make mame all the more believable likewise
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
It's good that you can laugh now, because you have made a few small trees with potential. I did the same with a similar Chinese elm I bought in Seattle in 1997. The horrible trunk is long gone, but it produced a beautiful shohin from a root cutting that has gone to shows.
cmeg1
Imperial Masterpiece
Thats great!
On with the cuttings!
On with the cuttings!
JoeR
Masterpiece
Lol I know, You want some cuttings? They root ridiculously easy and I have wayyyy more than I want or need. Slap some wire on em, bend them into nice shapes, and you got yourself some nice mame in short order.
music~maker
Shohin
What's your process for rooting them? I've tried (arguably a bit haphazardly) a couple times and just ended up with dead cuttings.
JoeR
Masterpiece
Perlite. Stick em in my propagator and forget about them. Surprising you have a hard time rooting them; do you grow anything else from cuttings?
