Old Pear Tree

iliya · Post by **iliya** » August 21st, 2012, 7:55 pm

Hello all,
I picked up this old Pear tree and am looking for your thorts on styling this thing...
If anyone has pics of other pear tree bonsai`s could you please post them for ideas.

The Specimen · Post by **The Specimen** » August 21st, 2012, 8:06 pm

Wow what a hunk of a trunk! Just wait till u go gold digging at the nebari.. should be fun

MoGanic · Post by **MoGanic** » August 21st, 2012, 8:13 pm

I've never seen a pear tree bonsai, but that one looks pretty sweet! Great bark. Try wiring some lower branches down if you can, I don't think you need to work on thickening the trunk anymore so branch development is your goal! haha.

Good luck

maybe even try some carving of deadwood if your game.

Tony Bebb · Post by **Tony Bebb** » August 21st, 2012, 8:41 pm

What a beautiful trunk. What a great place to start developing a Bonsai. I love the flare into the ground, the bark should wether to the same colour in time.

Probably need to concentrate on growing taper into a leader, and keeping the side branching pruned to get more secondaries and keep the branches thinner. If the side branches get too thick it will not help the proportion. You may even want to consider chopping the trunk lower to the rough bark so only the new leader will have the smooth bark. You may even want to do some carving.

Can you post some shots from different sides so we can get a better look?

Great stuff Iliya, and a great score

Tony

hugh grant · Post by **hugh grant** » August 21st, 2012, 9:51 pm

beautiful stock! this is definitely a tree to get excited about, great movement and bark.
just needs the branch development to compliment that powerful trunk line and base.
Im genuinely excited and it isnt even my tree!
looking forward to its progress

Hugh

Olivecrazy · Post by **Olivecrazy** » August 21st, 2012, 10:10 pm

Sweet tree you have here did a quick google search for you an found this http://test.zhaoxinpeng.com/viewjy.php? ... 0c7e005017

Cant wait to see its progress

Gerard · Post by **Gerard** » August 21st, 2012, 10:21 pm

Outstanding piece to work with it will take some time but should be lots of fun.
Here is my manchurian pear,

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an entirely different tree not likely to give you any direction at all.

Post by **kcpoole** » August 22nd, 2012, 2:03 pm

Lovely trunk and be interesting to see what you do with it. Lots of branching on each of the bends / direction changes to use in the final design i fyou want to go with a traditional informal upright.

ps i am amazed that no on has sid it yet....
You really need another one, Then you will be have a Pair of Pears !

Ken

bodhidharma · Post by **bodhidharma** » August 22nd, 2012, 4:35 pm

A stunning start and it has huge potential. A question, is it a Manchurian ornamental

if so no fruit but great Autumn colour.

GavinG · Post by **GavinG** » August 22nd, 2012, 4:48 pm

Excellent base. Please consider planting it in the ground to grow a long, thick leader that comes close to the girth of the base that you have. Cut that back, and do it again in decreasing stages, so you don't have a massive trunk disappearing into weeny little branches all of a sudden. You can build taper this way. It takes longer, but will give you a powerful flowing trunk. You can use the time to refine the roots as well. The clusters of branches coming off at one point need to be reduced to just the one, and that one aimed where you want it now, while you can.

Great start,

Gavin

billa · Post by **billa** » August 22nd, 2012, 9:03 pm

Awesome tree!! Great score!

First thoughts.....your style is already there- informal upright....not sure how much luck you will have changing the shape of the trunk...unless you undergo major renos...I have a very similar tree but heaps smaller. I have had it a few months and still trying to figure out the best way to go with it...but like yours the trunk is fairly chunky so for now can only dedicate my creative thoughts to the future of the branches....

If you look hard enough you will see a fair bit of variety and styles in pear tree bonsai on the web...

But I think you should consider hitting up the markets....take advantage of the tree as a bonsai (super sexy colors ) and as a little pocket money machine. You could easily farm pears and sell!!!

Good to see more pears springing up! Maybe we can all change the saying of 'going pear shaped' to a good thing!!!

Enjoy your beast

iliya · Post by **iliya** » October 21st, 2012, 7:36 pm

I have been feeding this Pear weekly and its been growing like mad!
It had its 1st basic wiring about 4 weeks ago and had to be rewired today as the wire had started to bite in already - it was also the perfect time to wire the secondary branches as they had grown about 80-100mm long on the lower part of the tree.
I am very happy with how quickly this tree is developing and hope to pot it next winter.

Tony Bebb · Post by **Tony Bebb** » October 21st, 2012, 8:04 pm

Growing well Iliya

Good to see you managing the new growth as it develops mate

Tony

anttal63 · Post by **anttal63** » October 21st, 2012, 8:05 pm

As usual Good work and material Iliya i look forward to more !!!

iliya · Post by **iliya** » July 14th, 2013, 6:55 pm

I had a chance to play with this one today, it was potted last week and totally rewired today.
I am happy with the result so far, considering it was a bare stump less than 12 months ago.
Still a long was to go the achieve mature looking branches though.

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