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Hi, i dug this ash in winter 2012, 1st years growth was good, second years was stunted by leaf stem eating bugs?, For the 3rd year, the tree is now in a 43 cm pot, with large holes in bottom half of pot to allow roots into the ground.this is where this tree will be documented through its journey to be a bonsai, i hope.. i'm expecting rapid growth from now on, should be interesting, i'm thinking of going the natural old tree style , not typical.The 1st branch is about 10 inches from base of pot. this is a long term project,with progression photos every year. cheers, Fex

FEX wrote:Hi, i dug this ash in winter 2012, 1st years growth was good, second years was stunted by leaf stem eating bugs?, For the 3rd year, the tree is now in a 43 cm pot, with large holes in bottom half of pot to allow roots into the ground.this is where this tree will be documented through its journey to be a bonsai, i hope.. i'm expecting rapid growth from now on, should be interesting, i'm thinking of going the natural old tree style , not typical.The 1st branch is about 10 inches from base of pot. this is a long term project,with progression photos every year. cheers, Fex

, Total height is about 10 inches to the start of the branches\trunk line,not including the little branch at the bottom,which will be used to create extra flare at the area below.thickness of base is about 3 inches, going to use walters trees as a guide, and dont forget nature too. cheers, Fex

Here is my ash tree so far, ready to grow some more, don't know how it will turn out yet, just going with the flow, there are lots of sacrifice branches there, just have to figure out which ones sometimes , here are the pics. any ideas welcome, basically i was thinking broom style or something like that, planning on leaving the ash in the ground till the original chop/cut is healed over completely,tree is 14 inches high from base to the chop.trunk is 4 inch thick at base.

Feel free to defoliate even multiple times a year if you want to get ramification going.
Leaf size reduces well and if you chop the terminal bud you will get both back budding new branches and smaller leaves.