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Share your success stories about defoliation, bare rooting and anything else relating to maintaining healthy bonsai.
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zimzallabim
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Post by zimzallabim »

Hi there

My first two pruning shaping attempts.

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Cryptomeria before

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Cryptomeria after

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Juniper before

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Juniper after
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Re: Beginner

Post by Beaumatsu2 »

Some nice work you have done but if there's one piece of advice I can give is to not completely take off every branch off a young tree. While trees are growing I would suggest to thin them out (so get rid of some unwanted branches growing in not ideal spots) but leave options for the future too.


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