Redwood redesign: step 1 – Bonsai Tonight

Waft redwoods are an comely species for coaching as bonsai, and individual that I concept to write about extra going ahead.

One fun thing about redwoods is that there are a various of diversified approaches to coaching them. Some of us dwelling the building of the tree by pruning and wiring, while others have branches by repeated pinching to care for rapid internodes. Both approaches would possibly perhaps perhaps make compelling bonsai.

The tree below has a various of primitive branches that lack ramification which makes them hard to utilize within the final originate. When right here’s the case, I in overall mediate to inaugurate up over and grow contemporary branches from scratch.

Coast redwood

Waft redwood

Though the tree is healthy, I hesitate to mediate away the total branches as dramatic pruning can lead to dieback on redwoods. An various is to decrease the foliage with the aim of stimulating contemporary shoots alongside the trunk that will additionally additionally be dilapidated for coaching.

For this work, friend and fellow redwood enthusiast Max did the pruning.

After pruning

After pruning – 40″

Max eliminated about half of the foliage however left heaps of healthy train pointers to support the tree in discovering better from the work. The postulate is to let the tree grow freely over the arrival months in hopes of stimulating contemporary shoots that I will work with next 365 days.

For the time being I’ll proceed to mediate images and must provide updates the subsequent time I work on the tree.

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