Large Camellia as Bonsai

[Fred]

Hi Pup

What an experience staying with Peter Chan. It would be interesting if you expanded on your experiences with him and had pictures to share of his trees.

Fred

[Jamie]

Hi Jamie

I will take many photos and get back to the forum. I intend to see it through the flowering season before I tackle it.

The reason I picked the front and back as I did is that in my front the main trunk has a movement forward. I will re-examine when I have thinned out the unwanted branches.

Fred

no worries mate all i can do is go on what i see

cheers

jamie

[kvan64]

I would chop it like this and bend the left trunk a bit if you want.

[Jamie]

I would chop it like this and bend the left trunk a bit if you want.

i think that might be the go, but spin it round 180 degrees from what i can see that side has a better line!


jamie

[Bretts]

I did this pic last night but had trouble re-loading it.

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I would probably go shorter on the main trunk than I have indicated. But that is guessing that these back bud fine which I am pretty sure they do.

I don't mind the other idea as well.

[Jamie]

brett, that would be the way to go to itroduce taper to the branches and trunk, you would have to go lower than that on the main trunk though to get the taper that would be needed for the height of the tree

jamie

[Bretts]

Like I said I would probably go lower than where I marked on the main trunk. But there would no need to go lower.
Just got out the ruler and the hieght of this tree right now is almost perfect 6:1 So even chopping where I indicated a new top could be grown pretty easily without getting too tall.
With the other trunk cut of low this will have great base taper. There is only a small section that will have minimal taper and it has the feature of a very pleeasent curve.

This would be no wall flower

[Homer911]

Any update?

[kcpoole]

Any update?

I doubt it
Fred has not logged in since 2013

Ken