AusBonsai

Yup. sorry Damian79, and everyone else...

We'll try that again.
Fail...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/82869468@ ... 263629293/

You'll notice in there I've also put a couple of very embryonic iPad sketches of the tree as I could see it after the 8 or so hours it took me to pinch it all the way back.

Please let me know what you all think. Flame away if you see fit.

From what I can see you have certainly taken it back to the "bare essentials".

I think there are potentially too many branches going on here.
I see some areas with multiples (more than 2 branches) protruding from the same spot - I'd look to minimise these to two only.

Remember to not go back past green on Junipers.
From what I can see here you may have pushed the limits on a few of the branches you have thinned out.

I'd also be looking to wire this up but would wait a month to see it back to health first.
Wiring is what is going to take this tree to the next level IMO.

Yeah my plan was to lose a LOT of the extra branches that are present. I am well aware that there are far too many and I am waiting to see some regrowth on this before I do anything else.
I have become accustomed to its dormant periods after pruning and how much I need to give it before I bother doing anything, and I was going to give it a bit more time than that before I did anything along the lines of branches as, yes, this will stress it significantly.

In the start of this thread I was given some advice steering me towards air layering/branch splitting to break this into two Bonsai; advice that I would like to take, if no-one else has any better suggestions, I'll look at this after I've culled some branches and see what the structure leaves me with.

Hi Julz, sometimes a photo helps. These are two Juni's that are same as yours and i thought a couple of styling designs might help you along. These have only had branch main selection and no refinement as such. I design them for sale and the new owner can do all the refinement work. These are about 20 years old. Hope this can help you along.

Thank you Bodhi. Greatly appreciated.

Here's my plan; give it the time it needs to come back to healthy growth, cull those branches that are extraneous to each junction (ie. the third branch at each point) and see what that leaves me with.
Sound sane?

Sounds like a plan

bodhidharma wrote:Hi Julz, sometimes a photo helps. These are two Juni's that are same as yours and i thought a couple of styling designs might help you along. These have only had branch main selection and no refinement as such. I design them for sale and the new owner can do all the refinement work. These are about 20 years old. Hope this can help you along.

20 years? Wow!

CoGRedeMptioN wrote:

bodhidharma wrote:Hi Julz, sometimes a photo helps. These are two Juni's that are same as yours and i thought a couple of styling designs might help you along. These have only had branch main selection and no refinement as such. I design them for sale and the new owner can do all the refinement work. These are about 20 years old. Hope this can help you along.

20 years? Wow!

You cannot rush a Juni, trunk girth takes a long time and cannot be rushed

Ken

The more I comment the more I find I really don't know mud-from-clay about the trees and this art...

Better to go back to reading and asking.


Cheers
EZ
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