What sacrifices are you making? Pic required

[Hack Yeah!]

Here's a winged elm I collected and trying to develop the next section. I hope to cut it back later this growing season. What do you all have going?

 

[Cadillactaste]

Thickening my first branch since removing the left one with a new redesign.

Chinese quince

 

[Wulfskaar]

P. pinea

I'll be cutting chopping it this fall.

 

[19Mateo83]

working on building taper on this little trident

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Thickening my first branch since removing the left one with a new redesign.

Chinese quince
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The quince is looking great and your photography is fantastic! Definitely a goal of mine.

Large trident in development.

 

[pandacular]

Washington hawthorn that I’m working on de-stick-in-a-potifying. Certainly an old tree, as you can see by the gnarly bark, but the owner never it run to get thick. I initially bought it for the bark and the price, but now I’m blowing the bark off by letting it run.

 

[pandacular]

Another fun one; a future red alder broom from @Dysfunctional Vet .

almost time for the second cutback of the season!

 

[Cadillactaste]

The quince is looking great and your photography is fantastic! Definitely a goal of mine.

Large trident in development.
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Thank ya kindly.

I've avoided trident for awhile. Keeping just one. Now...seems I'm kind of smitten after the semi cascade...to be adding yet another. Nice trident.

Nice seeing ones evolve trees to become more..I like this thread.

 

[MrFancyPlants]

JBP sacrifice over a few years

 

[Jake]

Planning on thickening a few of the back branches on this trident. After a quiet few years bonsai wise (few very loud ones with young kids) I'm getting the bug back!



@BobbyLane you may remember this one!

 

[Shibui]

Shimpaku junipers:
15cm / 6" diameter pot


20cm / 8" diameter pot


20cm / 8" pot


20cm / 8" pot


20cm / 8" pot


Seiju elm


Black pine


Another shimpku juniper. Sacrifice branch to thicken the upper part of the trunk and create jin (white)

 

[Dav4]

I've got big ones...


... and I've got small ones

They're all either working to heal chop scars, build/thicken the next section of trunk, or improve vigor in a certain branch.

 

[RJG2]

Pitch pine



Future tree

 

[baldone]

A few I collected this year. Some little ones also for my first forest.

 

[Rodrigo]

I'm thickening the bottom branch on a Siberian elm I got from @Hartinez a couple of years ago. This is from today after pruning and partial defoliation

 

[RJG2]

Random crab apple from the woods