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bonsaiTALK ArchMaster
Join Date: Oct-2002
Location: Melbourne
Country: Australia
Posts: 3,341
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Hi Kestutis
I'm sure lots of other people will give you advice on this very good material.
I live in a very different climate to you so I can't give you advice on when to schedule your root pruning and so on. What I can tell you is that I bought a similar piece of material about 6 years ago and it was growing in a clay soil in a heshin bag.
I remember removing some of the clay soil and then filling it in with new soil. I did hard prune the top and all major branches at the same time, but my climate allows me to do this heavy work. I selected all my major branches and cut the rest leaving stubs. I remember paying particular attention to the top of the tree where there was a heavy whorl of branches, similar to yours. I actually removed all but one branch in the top which I wired up to be my apex.
Over the next couple of years I replaced all the clay soil and worked on refinement. All the major branches were selected in the first hard styling and all I needed to do was work on refining the branches.
I'll have to get a recent photo of it to show you where it is at now as your starting material was very similar to what I started out with.
Good luck.
David
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