Thoughts on this Mikawa Yatsubusa nursery stock.

[19Mateo83]

Even though the leaves don’t reduce the best, the fall color is fantastic on mikawa

 

[sorce]

You mean like this type of thing, its doable

Hackberry, Celtis africana, dug up and potted 2016

I was lucky enough to be given a bunch of small Celtis in nursery bags and decided to make a few into bonsai. I cut the nursery bags and put them around the taproot with a pipe clamp to force roots to the sides. This was in 2008. I don't have pics of the individual trees, but did basically the...

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would give the op a better, more naturalistic style of tree in less time.
comes down to tastes eh. going by the virt op wants to build a 'bonsai'

Yes that extremely beautiful and realistic, it seems OP has more already to build that from.

Sorce

 

[Scrogdor]

Yes that extremely beautiful and realistic, it seems OP has more already to build that from.

Sorce

Decisions decisions!

 

[dbonsaiw]

That tree is awesome and well worth the money in my opinion. I just started a Mikawa thread myself - my tree is much younger than yours, not nearly as nice and still set me back almost $100. If the $300 isn't breaking the bank, I'd get it in a heartbeat.

 

[BitsaBon]

I think its good material, I would probably buy IF the nebari is very good. at that price it needs to have a good nebari me thinks. is a little pricy though

for reference these are $356. they might be harder to get where you are tho

Japanese Maple material

for anyone interested, an unsual Trident on kaizen...unusual because it has holes😂 not for the faint hearted https://www.kaizenbonsai.com/trident-maple-bonsai-material-9445 i think thats a good price, i'd be interested if i didnt already have a couple of lumps on my balcony. defo potential to...

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you have a few options with the material, you can pick the middle line that has some taper and movement, cut back a couple of the side trunks short or you can cut everything back to around 2in and grow an informal broom.
Looking closely, looks like everything has offshoots low down that you can cut back to and begin building taper. these are all good options and attributes i look for when making a decison to see if its worth it or not.

Sorry to butt in, is that The Palm centre, Richmond?

 

[Scrogdor]

That tree is awesome and well worth the money in my opinion. I just started a Mikawa thread myself - my tree is much younger than yours, not nearly as nice and still set me back almost $100. If the $300 isn't breaking the bank, I'd get it in a heartbeat.

Right now it’s a decision of what do I get rid of for space and do I actually want to look for a nice Shishigashira. Big part of me wants to nab this one and air layer 3-5 smaller trees to sell and soften the blow/ maybe break even.