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Originally Posted by albek
If you’re small trees are in a training period and you want fatter trunks there are three important things to do to be successful.
Let one branch grow freely for two or more years until the trunk has fattened sufficiently. Keep the other branches trimmed in this period. When the trunk has fattened you can cut off the sacrifice branch.
Remove all flowers as soon as they emerge, to focus on vegetative growth. This will speed the process considerably.
Plant the tree in a colander in a fair draining soil. This will develop a good root system, and the growth of the tree will be stronger. Only repot every third year.
Regards
Morten Albek
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Thank you so much for the advice. These little branches are quite small and the "trunk to be" is pretty spindly at this point, and I was thinking of just sort of letting it go for a couple years, after putting it into a bigger pot of course. These were originally intended to be used in hanging baskets I guess and are in those tiny "basket stuffer" pots. I may have to chop the one though next winter, because the first branch is way too high to use in a mame bonsai. Then I would follow your suggestion of a sacrifice branch but keep the others trimmed.
And as far as I can see, there are no primary roots, just very fine fibrous ones so far. I am not sure though what you mean by planting it in a colander to develope the root system. How does that help?