eliass wrote:But would love some opinions on potential styling?
Hi Eliass, i would be heading in the "Literati" direction. Your chinese Juniper would fit into the category perfectly. It really does not have enough lower branching to do anything else with. Broom would be boring. I would be spending time studying Literati trees (which are a difficult but rewarding style) and go from there.
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I would like to say congratulations on starting bonsai properly! Reading, joining a forum, purchasing decent stock and starting classes. With this sort of attitude you will be producing great results in a few years time. It is refreshing to see somebody enter with this sort of enthusiasm.
I have just seen this now and think Bodhi and Joel are correct. I think you are going to have a rough time making anything other than a bunjin from this tree. It has a stunning healthy looking canopy, so I think you got a good find there mate!
Hey Elias i personally would not buy material like this, with such big gaps in the foliage. However now i would twist, bend and fold that juni over on its self like a pretzil and then we will have made something out of it !!!
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Hi eliass, personally i would buy this for the trunk and apex , then i would split the trunk where the small second branch exits in the straight section and bend to the left in the second pic to mimic the lower trunk . Not quite like a pretzel as its about 30mm thick by the look of it , so splitting it will enable the bend to be tighter. It wouldn't be easy but nothing worthwhile come easy . With it compressed and bent , i would then tilt it over about 30-40 degree's to the right second pic and pull the foliage down both sides of the apex or use the right side and create a new apex again with a similar bend to the rest of the trunk . Give it a few years running free to knit together and you would have a very nice piece of stock resembling a Yamadora Juniper .
Cheers Alpineart
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Great starter tree (wish i had one like this ) doing somthing with the trunk would be my first move from the picture looks like theres a striaght section that could do with some bending. Its a very healthy tree nice score by the way how tall is the tree
Hi everyone just a quick update, I elected to air layer this and it has been throwing roots for a while now, it was layered just above the bend, whilst I have an inkling with what I'm going to do the top section I was just goingt to contort the remainder of the trunk and that lower branch and then leave it in a corner for a couple of years and see what comes of it... Cheers for all the feedback
eliass wrote:Hi everyone just a quick update, I elected to air layer this and it has been throwing roots for a while now, it was layered just above the bend, whilst I have an inkling with what I'm going to do the top section I was just goingt to contort the remainder of the trunk and that lower branch and then leave it in a corner for a couple of years and see what comes of it... Cheers for all the feedback
Good decisions mate !!! Best out come for this material as you are young and have plenty of time to make better trees. I commend you lad.
by the way how tall is the tree 
