I bought this european beech a year or more ago at the nursery, it came in a one gallon pot which i've grown it in up till now. Basically all i have done to this point is cut the tap root and any other ones growing downward, and trimmed the rest back to a decent point... then i chopped the trunk near the top and made a new leader, and then lightly trimmed the branches etc.... so here it is now... i repotted it in this new pot i got today, and gave it some bonsai soil which has a mixture of perlite, pumice, peat, pine bark, and sand. I noticed that the roots were really growing nicely, very shallow and fine.. and the new foliage is growing more and more each day, so its exciting to know that its doing really well
so let me know what you think,
-jason