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I posted this Juni ages ago and it has great foliage and crappy trunk and should be on the burn pile. But the foliage is such a wonderful colour so i have been creative with it. After all, Bonsai is the art of Illusion....Isn't it Future plans will be a layer above the skinny bit but this was fun to do,

Hi Bodhi , amazing what a little trick or two will do . Many years ago I came across several well ramified skinny pine trees which had pine bark plates glued onto them to increase the girth and give an old aged rugged look . I quite like this , something different , even if its only temporary .

Cheers Alpine

Hey Bodhi,

There was an article in an old Bonsai Today, I think, where they split each individual main root up the trunk to fix this kind of thing. Another option?

alpineart wrote:Hi Bodhi , amazing what a little trick or two will do . Many years ago I came across several well ramified skinny pine trees which had pine bark plates glued onto them to increase the girth and give an old aged rugged look . I quite like this , something different , even if its only temporary .

Cheers Alpine

I had a lot of fun doing this Alp's, it was just something a little different and out of the norm. Mind you, it took three hours of hollowing out the little stump to fit it.

treeman wrote:Hey Bodhi,

There was an article in an old Bonsai Today, I think, where they split each individual main root up the trunk to fix this kind of thing. Another option?

Indeed, and i have not heard of that technique. Any chance of an elaboration.

You have to bare root the tree and trace each main root separately. Where it joins the trunk, you continue to split and spread until you reach the thicker part of the trunk. You are basically creating a new nebari by splitting the trunk in several parallel places each section with it's own tip of active root. I think they actually tied the tree to a moss covered rock after this.