Serpentine trunk development

[Rid]

After looking at a bunch of google images of different trees, I noticed that a lot of them feature that points straight up, but the trunk has a serpentine shape.

Is this achieved with wiring and sacrificial branches, or trunk chopping and developing new leaders.

Or neither, or both?!.!

 

[jk_lewis]

I don't understand. Can you post a pic of what you mean?

 

[barrosinc]

if you are talking about twisting junipers... here is the explanation that smoke did http://bonsainut.com/index.php?threads/one-more-time-yamadori-style-junipers.4789/

 

[M. Frary]

Chop and grow and chop and so on and so forth. Informal upright right?

 

[Rid]

whooops, heres 2 sample pictures. I guess it is definitely informal upright,

 

[Rid]

Generally speaking, is it grow and chop for deciduous and flowering, then wiring/bending for junipers and conifers? I'm sure this is overly simplifying the subject...

 

[Bunjeh]

You are showing two examples of informal upright style. See this link for a basic style guide. http://www.bonsaiempire.com/origin/bonsai-styles

 

[Vance Wood]

Generally speaking, is it grow and chop for deciduous and flowering, then wiring/bending for junipers and conifers? I'm sure this is overly simplifying the subject...

This is not totally accurate. You can chop and grow both Junipers, Pines and other Conifers.

 

[Vance Wood]

The process of growing and chopping is doing it right and doing it at the right time, allowing the tree to grow out before continuing.

 

[M. Frary]

Of your examples the first looks to be chop and grow. The second was bent as a little sapling. If you look closely at the second you see there is a lack of taper. Chopping and growing makes for taper.

 

[Rid]

Great a few more pieces of the bonsai puzzle have come together. Only 876483259852886 more to go.
Thanks for everyone's help and input.

 

[barrosinc]

Wow Vance!!! That is cool to see! Do you have any more pics where you know where the chops are?? I had always wanted to see that explained like that

 

[Vance Wood]

I'll have to go through all my Mugo pictures and can probably find a few. You generally do not make a bonsai out of a Mugo Pine if you are not willing to hack, slash and chop the tree all over the place. I don't know if this counts as a trunk chop in the strictest sense of the word but the trunk has been chopped four or five times.

I have a picture of this tree in the nursery container but that wont show you anything much.

Tree after another styling procedure. It has taken me a while to catch a vision for this tree that was not right out of you bonsai club hand book image. No dig at bonsai clubs, I love them.

This is the same tree as it was this fall.