Re: [ID] Callistemon? Advice also
Posted: January 1st, 2017, 9:03 am
I love the heartwood showing through on the trunk, so I'd rather not trunk chop if I cankcpoole wrote:what about shortening to just a stump?
Haha, indeed that is what I meant Shibui. I know some trees aren't suitable for jin and was curious as to whether I could do it with this. I guess my main question was not so much whether I should take it off, but how much to take off. As you said, it's hard to judge from a photo, so I may have to just bite the bullet and do it!shibui wrote:I find it hard to assess a tree from a photo but I think you have already decided it will be better without the branch so just do it.Is deadwood viable on Callistemon?Dead wood is dead so it won't be viable but I guess you are really asking whether you should include dead wood in the design of a bonsai callistemon. In that case,
Where these grow naturally along rivers they get smashed during floods so a great many of the ones I see growing wild feature dead wood. My waterswept callistemon has had parts converted to jin and shari to reflect that aspect of life in the river.