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I have done this with Japanese Maples, and Hornbeams with no problems. I know what I have posted is conrtoversial, but I am not forcing anyone to do it. If any of you have a better program I challenge you to write it up and post it like I have, I would love to see your ideas and techniques.

Of course you can lose trees doing this, you can lose trees doing in any other way, you can lose trees by not doing it at all and just let the tree die a slow death through self strangulation. If you have a method for untangeling a root system write it up and explane it. If you have lost a tree doing it this way describe what you did, when you did it and what you did it to (species of tree), and the kind of after care it was given.

And yes I can post pictures of me sawing the bottom off a tree but what good will that do? In fact that is exactly how I treated my contest tree and it is still alive, ask Will he has seen it. How many of you that entered the tree styling contest still have the trees you styled and, in most cases, potted?

15-Aug-2005	#23
Vance Wood bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Sep-2002 Location: Roseville Michigan Country: USA USDA Zone: 5/6 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 2,443	I have done this with Japanese Maples, and Hornbeams with no problems. I know what I have posted is conrtoversial, but I am not forcing anyone to do it. If any of you have a better program I challenge you to write it up and post it like I have, I would love to see your ideas and techniques. Of course you can lose trees doing this, you can lose trees doing in any other way, you can lose trees by not doing it at all and just let the tree die a slow death through self strangulation. If you have a method for untangeling a root system write it up and explane it. If you have lost a tree doing it this way describe what you did, when you did it and what you did it to (species of tree), and the kind of after care it was given. And yes I can post pictures of me sawing the bottom off a tree but what good will that do? In fact that is exactly how I treated my contest tree and it is still alive, ask Will he has seen it. How many of you that entered the tree styling contest still have the trees you styled and, in most cases, potted?