Kelvin8r wrote:After flower haircut and repot.
Hi Kelvin.
Your tree is quite good but it has a couple of problems if we attend to the rules of bonsai: the situation of the branches is not adequate.
1) ichi (ichi-no-eda, first branch) must be the lowest and biggest one.
2) ni (ni-no-eda, second branch) must be opposite to ichi.
3) triangulation must be respected in front, rear, side.
4) you may need a branch in the rear and a branch in the front.
5) because so many branches growing at same level, the conicity is inverted (trunk is wider on top than on food).
6) branches must grow in the exterior of the curves, never interior.
I suggest doing like this. I'm not a guru, of course. This is what I would do with my tree..
A) To arrange conicity, I will let to grow the most possible branches at the bottom of the tree. Only purpose is making trunk wider at the nebari. This branches will be sacrificated and cut when trunk gets ideal shape, so they will be not in next graphics to simplify.
B) cut all market branches.
C) move BACK BRANCH to the rear.
Here a graphic where you can see which branches to cut and which ones to move.
D) I will torsionate main trunk down to reduce the distance between pot and ichi. I will grow a frontal branch just after rear one (market with slashes).
Finally result from the top.
Again, this is MY feeling. You must do as you like the most.
Regards!
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