What are your plans with your CMBonsai trees?

[Rodrigo]

I know many of us bought multiple trees from @cmeg1 when he put them up on ebay (thanks again Kurt!). I think having multiple trees of the same type and style is a great time to experiment a bit on different approaches.
What are your plans with yours?

I bought 5 clump elms, I think I'll leave a couple as clumps and try to grow some sumo by allowing the the trunks to increase the base and removing all but one in the future.

 

[crab apple]

Good question. I'm just letting mine grow and hope I figure out what to do with them later. They are starting to loose their leaves now so I suspect they are going into dormancy, with a name like "Siberian Elm" I'm guessing they'll be fine outdoors all winter in my location.

 

[Kevin1968]

Good question. I'm just letting mine grow and hope I figure out what to do with them later. They are starting to loose their leaves now so I suspect they are going into dormancy, with a name like "Siberian Elm" I'm guessing they'll be fine outdoors all winter in my location.

It should be fine good down to 32 deg.

 

[Rodrigo]

Good question. I'm just letting mine grow and hope I figure out what to do with them later. They are starting to loose their leaves now so I suspect they are going into dormancy, with a name like "Siberian Elm" I'm guessing they'll be fine outdoors all winter in my location.

Yeah I agree they definitely need to grow before they can become anything substantial. I was just thinking that it'd be wise to start thinking about it now so I can start heading them in the right direction rather than just letting them grow uncontrolled.

If they grow too thick without having done any work to them, it may be too late to wire trunks in the position you want without damaging them

Mine also started turning color recently and are showing great fall colors! Looking forward to seeing those colors when they're older

 

[crab apple]

You would have to be pretty creative to come up with anything other than a clump style bonsai, I'd say Cmeg has done all the planning and work for us, with a large amount of trunks im thinking mostly clip and grow without much wiring. What will probably set some apart is how much patence one has to grow a nice base of fused trunks. Of course this is all guess work for me as I've never really grown a clump style.

 

[rodeolthr]

Siberian Elm (ulmus pumila) have naturalized where I'm from in Wyoming. In the past, they would routinely easily survive winters of -40F/C. I had them in pots (they'd often pop up in planters and such), and they always were fine after -20F. FWIW

Good question. I'm just letting mine grow and hope I figure out what to do with them later. They are starting to loose their leaves now so I suspect they are going into dormancy, with a name like "Siberian Elm" I'm guessing they'll be fine outdoors all winter in my location.

 

[Wulfskaar]

I think I'll leave mine as a clump and just let them grow a few years. Some leaves have turned yellow for me and a few have fallen off. Looking forward to spring when they start to grow!

 

[Wulfskaar]

I think I'll leave mine as a clump and just let them grow a few years. Some leaves have turned yellow for me and a few have fallen off. Looking forward to spring when they start to grow!

 

[snowman04]

I have five small ones and will be planting them as a "forest" in the spring. Leaves are almost gone even though they are in the garage for the winter.

 

[cmeg1]

them colors are great @Wulfskaar


This Spring will be pine season!!

The o es in the winter crop are poppin’ the dark green mature leaves…….will be getting very vigorous now,but I have till April!!!
Many more in production also.

I like the idea of showing the pictures everyone if you got them, post them up, especially the pines I’ve been releasing them for a few years now!!!

Here are pictures of the current crop, just starting to get vigorous from this morning and also the cuttings in Propogation and I have about another thousand cuttings on the way!!!


My two-year-old Siberian elm has been outside the whole season so far down to 22 last night!!!
After another month, I’ll probably pop it indoors the grow house and start early again!!!

 

[cmeg1]

My two year old Siberian………these aare very cool bonsai!!!
At 22F last night.

These future kabudachi‘s everyone bought, could be quite spectacular ……and even just two years!!!!

 

[RJG2]

Last pictures of mine from June 22-23 after thinning out and wiring. Everything tall are still sacrifices.

 

[Kievnstavick]

Hey Cmeg, I am still reading through your Extended growing season postings. You have certainly inspired me amd have given me some great insight on how to grow quality bonsai stock.

I have increased my own seeding rate from a couple seedlings to a few dozen so I can begin my own trials. I have just purchased some ingredients from RAW to make a foliar spray that you use. I am hoping for the same results in back budding.

Anyways, long story short, I am aspiring to be a quality Bonsai stock provider for my area.

 

[19Mateo83]

All my pines are going into pond baskets in pumice and scoria this spring. The Siberian elms are to be grown out as clumps on a flat surface.

 

[NateDyk47]

I'm planning on letting my 5 clump elms grow out until they're fully fused. Depending on how long that takes, I may prune to a reasonable size, but not much else.

 

[NateDyk47]

My 4 JBP after their second growing season. I experimented with decandeling this year, and I'll repot all on them in the spring.

 

[cmeg1]

Wow thanks for sharing these @NateDyk47

 

[crab apple]

Herer's my JBP, it grows like a weed. It's getting a trunk chop this spring. I used to think JBPs didn't grow well in my area or I was just bad at growing them but now I'm convinced its just that they usually show up in compacted soil that you can't get off of the roots without killing it but not these ones from CM, they show up in a little rockwool cube that tranfers nicely into bonsai soil. Makes all the difference in the world. Can't wait to get some more this spring.

 

[LuZiKui]

It'll be pretty cool to see all of these trees progress over time, thanks for starting! Unseasonably warm this year so mine are still holding onto green leaves and growing a bit. I put some wire on one of them, I think I might add some wire and basically just spread them out and give them a little movement down low while still flexible. Other than that just planning on feeding them heavy next year and hoping they grow grow grow.

 

[Gaitano]

I have mine some wire and am excited to see how these start to look once the growing gets going. That two year old Kurt posted looks great. Very interesting branching. A different look overall as a species.