Topple cutback on ume – Indian Bonsai Artwork

The basics of descend work on ume are straightforward: remove the former leaves and prune to silhouette and/or the desired internode size.

Sooner than eradicating the leaves – no indicators of descend coloration

Topple has been gentle this one year so the leaves remained healthy into December. By eradicating the leaves, I could perchance well moreover higher stare what branches had grown since I closing pruned the tree in spring.

After eradicating the leaves

Although it’s laborious to stare from the photos, I made pretty about a cuts to remove dead branches and stubs. I moreover shortened the quite small different of branches that prolonged beyond the desired silhouette.

After cutback – 16″

After I finished the pruning, I applied minimize paste to the wounds and returned the tree to the bench.

For a reminder of the development the tree has revamped the years, I dug up a grunt from once I first planted it at this attitude in 2015.

Establishing essentially the most modern planting attitude in 2015

This, of direction, truly reminded me of how the tree venerable to head attempting. Right here’s a shot from 2003 when the tree became once grafted with branches that produced white plant life.

2003 when all three trunks own been easy alive

Going extra reduction, right here’s a grunt of the tree after I wired it for the first time.

1994(ish) – preliminary styling

I became once about a one year or two into bonsai once I obtained the tree as fragment of a workshop with Kathy Shaner. The tree became once field grown by George Muranaka and sourced for the class by Max Cooperstein.

About a one year later, I eliminated the whole branches and grafted contemporary foliage as I prefer white single plant life to double pinks. I saved the tree that approach for several years until two of the three trunks died. That’s once I grew to became the tree on its aspect, chosen a semi-cascade fabricate for it, and began training the closing branches.

Over the following couple of years I’ll map to improve the division density on the decrease branches in hopes of unveiling it, when it’s ready, in a winter show cover.

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