Stick in a pot elm

[Smoke]

 

[Smoke]

Muranaka booth at last weekends fundraiser for Collection Central.

 

[Wilson]

I have been enjoying looking for some awesome mini wild trees this spring. This little fella looks amazing! I brought home a couple small ones, birch, hackberry, spruce, they are good fun and take little space.

 

[cmeg1]

Cool little tree though!
I am going to propagate Yatsubusa elm from cuttings this year and hopefully put them all in the ground this autumn to grow on for smaller bonsai creations.Air layering too.

 

[cmeg1]

I have been enjoying looking for some awesome mini wild trees this spring. This little fella looks amazing! I brought home a couple small ones, birch, hackberry, spruce, they are good fun and take little space.

"And take little space"
That's why I grow them!

 

[M. Frary]

At first glance it almost doesn't look real. The bark is crazy looking.

 

[Smoke]

Cool little tree though!
I am going to propagate Yatsubusa elm from cuttings this year and hopefully put them all in the ground this autumn to grow on for smaller bonsai creations.Air layering too.

IMHO, elms are a little tricky. There are some good cultivars out there but some are very difficult to ramify correctly. Seiju's are not my favorite, as well as Hokkiado's or any of some of the miniature forms. I like three, Catlan, Drake and Corticosa. All three have the normal leaving traits that I find desirable in an elm. They are easy to ramify, and make good foliage pads. The leaves are of good size and reduce well and although alternating on the stem look good. I do not like the look of some of the seiju or Hokkaido foliage because the leaves come off the stems in these weird rows that look un-natural.

Just an opinion....

 

[petegreg]

Goodness, that's a growth pattern. Isn't there any way how to take advantage of it?

 

[Saizan]

Nice stick! With this trunk, now you can focus only in ramification.

I agree disliking the excesive miniaturization of hokkaido and other similar. Maybe for a 5 cm bonsai...

 

[JoeR]

I agree, the fishbone look is very unnatural; however, it is correctable.


Is the top seiju picture of a tree you own?

 

[Don Blackmond]

Isn't that Ken's hand in the left photo of post 7?

 

[cmeg1]

IMHO, elms are a little tricky. There are some good cultivars out there but some are very difficult to ramify correctly. Seiju's are not my favorite, as well as Hokkiado's or any of some of the miniature forms. I like three, Catlan, Drake and Corticosa. All three have the normal leaving traits that I find desirable in an elm. They are easy to ramify, and make good foliage pads. The leaves are of good size and reduce well and although alternating on the stem look good. I do not like the look of some of the seiju or Hokkaido foliage because the leaves come off the stems in these weird rows that look un-natural.

Just an opinion....

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Thanks,I never liked seiju or Hokkaido either.I am hoping the Yatsubusa variety is more manageable.It does seem to have more natural growth than them two.Has them elongated leaves.

 

[YukiShiro]

Lovely little trunk
bark is amazing!

best regards
Herman

 

[ColinFraser]

No fair, your stick has taper and movement! Elitist.

 

[johng]

I am hoping the Yatsubusa variety is more manageable.

I find that to be true...not quite as good at the three smoke mentioned but certainly better than hokkiado but similar to seiju...although a little better. It also comes down to pruning...new growth is pretty linear but once cut back and ramified it gets better!

 

[Brian Van Fleet]

Cute.

 

[Smoke]

No fair, your stick has taper and movement! Elitist.

You mean girth ...right?

 

[LanceMac10]

 

[Smoke]

Cute.

You talkin about the tree right?

 

[petegreg]

It's cute. I didn't want to criticize, I like the trunk and how every single branch looks. Looks cute and interesting. But as complex... Just was confused... Before I saw this picture I'd seen only some individual branches of this elm sport on some dendro-pages. Now I google some more pics, it seems to be manageable on shohin size trees. I'll watch this.