My Acer 1st pot

[anttal63]

Im gonna put this up for more than one reason. 1st to show that buying an established tree can get you some milage and still put your signature on it. 2nd What can happen when you got too many trees, fall behind and start to neglect some. 3rd lets see what we can do with this. Now there are many gaps to fill in here but im just gonna have to do it on the fly as i get time .

Here it is when i first got it April 2008;

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June 2008 colour and naked;

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After 1st lot of work;

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12 months later June 2009

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Stop here for now... gotta get back to wiring and repotting

[bodhidharma]

I loooove a mystery

[Gerard]

Hi Ant,
I am confused by the title.......pot?
The tree is coming along nicely, you have reached the point of development which always causes dilemnas for me.
Let the branches extend to fatten up the trunk or shorten the branches to stop them from becoming too fat for the trunk and making it necessary to regrow all the branches from scratch.

[anttal63]

Hi Ant,
I am confused by the title.......pot?
The tree is coming along nicely, you have reached the point of development which always causes dilemnas for me.
Let the branches extend to fatten up the trunk or shorten the branches to stop them from becoming too fat for the trunk and making it necessary to regrow all the branches from scratch.

You see nothing to be confused about you are on to it now read whats there and just be patient the pot is coming. Just dont hold your breath !!! Now meanwhile i got other tit bits i gotta give the people ! Some of us have gotta keep this place exciting

[Gerard]

Patience?
I used all mine on my trees.

[Damian Bee]

What's the sound track mate?

[anttal63]

Now back here round about here at this last photo is where i should have paid attention. Putting the tree into a shallower tray would have gone a long way to slowing down the growth just for starters. No what do i do repot back into the poly box because i got some grand idea of layering so as to get a sensibly tall tree and a short stumpy one too. Not Sumo !!! Well thats fine but the next 3 years my life goes A wall and this tree is grossly forgotten. No layering, no repotting, little bit of pruning and watered to keep alive. Food if it was lucky first i had to think about feeding myself! Any ways what do reckon i end up with ???

Aprill after a much deserved prune

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May last colour b4 she gets it off

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and finally naked to bare all her grief

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and still no pot

[anttal63]

What's the sound track mate?

Something i can slash my wrists to...

[anttal63]

OK so by now you have got the drift? I have allowed the growth to get to course, allowing it to grow on too long. With that come long internodes that are useless when wanting to ramify and refine. So now i have put this baby into a cheap chinese pot just in case, how ever i am going to have a dam better crack at attempting to bring it back to some kind of order. The 2 tree option is still on my mind, that branch is hiding at the back and i will keep it a mystery for now. Finally Gerard heres my Acer in its 1st pot. I will work further on it soon !

[anttal63]

To chop or not to chop that is the question,

Somewhat better than it was after a clean, pinch and wire. But had one of those , whats Pup callm ? Oh bugger moments and broke a front branch clean off just as i was wiring my last brach and thinkin how good am i to get all this wire around tender maple growth That branch would have gone a long way to fillin in where mostly needed. Lets see what happens in the next 6 weeks.

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[The Specimen]

Reading top to down I always find your posts a good read and many quite amusing.. defintely agree with buying good material for starters for maximum milage and then working it your way

There is just never enough time for Bonsai is there

[anttal63]

Reading top to down I always find your posts a good read and many quite amusing.. defintely agree with buying good material for starters for maximum milage and then working it your way

There is just never enough time for Bonsai is there

True that !!! Some years you do and some years shite happens !!!