My first post on the Nut forum was air-layering of a mallsai Chinese Elm into two shohin back in May 2013.
http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/mallsai-chinese-elm-into-two-shohins.11112/#post-141602
They have since grown nicely. One was trained as a sumo informal upright bonsai, the other a reclining style Lingnan Penjing by clip-and-grow; sort of like turning them into Danny DeVito and Arnold of the movie Twins. I displayed the sumo shohin as part of the Houston Bonsai Society 7 shohin group display at last year's Lone Star State show at Corpus Christi; to my surprised, it was singled out to receive the best deciduous award.
This is the original mallsai:
Air-layering details and training of these two are in my old and new blogs:
https://bonsaipenjing.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/17/
https://bonsaipenjing.wordpress.com...ohin-chinese-elms-air-layered-from-a-mallsai/
http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/mallsai-chinese-elm-into-two-shohins.11112/#post-141602
They have since grown nicely. One was trained as a sumo informal upright bonsai, the other a reclining style Lingnan Penjing by clip-and-grow; sort of like turning them into Danny DeVito and Arnold of the movie Twins. I displayed the sumo shohin as part of the Houston Bonsai Society 7 shohin group display at last year's Lone Star State show at Corpus Christi; to my surprised, it was singled out to receive the best deciduous award.
This is the original mallsai:
Air-layering details and training of these two are in my old and new blogs:
https://bonsaipenjing.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/17/
https://bonsaipenjing.wordpress.com...ohin-chinese-elms-air-layered-from-a-mallsai/