In spring I put these two into their first bonsai pots and cut off all their branches. Now I know my bonsai skills are not great but I wanted to make this thread as these trees have been great for me as a beginner. It is a real plus to be able to work on trees pretty much every week
The fig has been cut back three times and styled once (about to get a second styling, hence the defoliation). The clerodendrum I have cut back pretty much every second week. It is really starting to get some branch structure and ramification, well compared to my other stuff anyway 
It unfortunately doesn't show that well in the photos 
Any advice going forward is greatly appreciated. The clero has reverse taper now as I recently knocked the bark of the upper side of the trunk
I am growing some cuttings that I will attempt to approach graft onto that side to give a better root structure and get back the appearance of taper from the front. There is already a cutting growing up the back of the tree that is my experiment, it will become a root at the back. With the fig I think I will layer it to get some decent nebari. At an estimate both would be about 50cm tall.Thanks for looking
) when in full leaf. Still needs the branch work though so come next spring I will grow box it 
