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My new Japanese box.

what do you guys think?

open to suggestions

wired it today

Nice start, i think you went wrong though buying stock like this. It currently has no taper and no interest in the trunk. It needs time growing to get some width in the trunk which you wont achieve in a bonsai pot.

oh ok, I thought it would thicken in there. bugger. point noted will improve next time

It is always nice when you first start into bonsai to have a few in bonsai pots. You have done well with this Japanese box and your forest. Keep records and photos and throughout your bonsai career you will see how much you have learnt .

I certainly placed a few starters into bonsai pots and were proud of my efforts. Some are still alive and some not but I have enjoyed the journey and learnt heaps.

Fiona

I am loving the journey so far!

Rilez wrote:oh ok, I thought it would thicken in there. bugger. point noted will improve next time

That doesn't mean it won't develop into somethign awesome in the future It will thicken in that pot, but not as fast as it would in the ground

fae wrote:It is always nice when you first start into bonsai to have a few in bonsai pots. You have done well with this Japanese box and your forest. Keep records and photos and throughout your bonsai career you will see how much you have learnt .

I certainly placed a few starters into bonsai pots and were proud of my efforts. Some are still alive and some not but I have enjoyed the journey and learnt heaps.

Fiona

This.

To bonsai enthusiasts what you have here doesn't really blow us away. but when i started, only 2 years ago mind....I would put small trees like the above in bonsai pots. I thought they looked great. They do look great. To the average person they look great. Then as you progress and learn more i think your taste changes, or you get confidence in your ability to chop a tree down and keep it alive.
You realise after a while, the time it takes to produce a truly beautiful tree.

I think thats why alot of us have many many trees. If you only have about 5 bonsai, you can become bored with the hobby as nothing seems to happen when you're sat there watching them. If you have 30-50 trees, theres always something to wire, something to repot etc.

If shohins is what you are into, sometimes its better to buy a big tree for 100$ that you can airlayer many shohins from. You can select nice branches that have a nice thickness/taper. They can be wired while on the tree, the rootball will be small and can survive in a really tiny bonsai pot compared to gradually root pruning stock to fit a small pot.

ill do some research into air layering

Rilez wrote:ill do some research into air layering

viewtopic.php?f=129&t=16340

Rilez wrote:ill do some research into air layering

Wiki has a great little write up on them, and the down the bottom there are links to multiple threads that will also help

https://www.ausbonsai.com.au/wiki/index.php?title=Layer

thanx Jason and Eusta.


This is a very early work in progress, as I have only had it a few days. Do you guys think that it might have much to offer in the future?

Rilez wrote:thanx Jason and Eusta.


This is a very early work in progress, as I have only had it a few days. Do you guys think that it might have much to offer in the future?

I'm no expert, am still learning like yourself, but it's still young, so there is plenty of time for it to develop into an awesome tree. It will just take time, thats all

2 months later.