Hi,
Thought I would post some pics of some of the smaller JBPs we areworking on to develop. Typically, we see great transformations of yamadori from raw stock to bonsai. This is an extremely imortant part of bonsai. The trees we are posting are all nursery grown JBP's- one from here in the US and four imports. None of these trees would be considered to be show ready, but most are well on their way to having balanced foliage and will get rewired this winter.
1) Import JBP- 31/2" tall, in a Sara Raynor pot, 21/2' base and then a top view. This tree was moved fom a clay training pot to this one last year, in second year of needle reduction work. (51372+73)
2) Import JBP- 9" tall, Chinese pot, imported by Brussell's bonsai, came out of quarantine this spring and is currently undergoing first round of needle reduction through candle and needle work. (51374)
3) Import JBP- 12" tall- Chinese pot- In third year of needle reduction work. Needs a slightly deeper pot and will be truned about 1/8th turn for new front. Old tree- about 40 years old. (51375+ 51379)
4. Domestic JBP- 14" tall- in Bryan Albright pot. This tree was field grown by our very own OKBonsai (Frank) and then potted up. I was at Frank's with a good friend from Colorado in 2005 about the 1 week before the WBC convention in DC. Frank lamented that he had a few trees that he just couldn't figure out why he had dug, this was one of them, he still had it as an informal upright. I bought the tree, pruned a few lower branches off and took it to WBC to work on while I was Vending. Rob Kempinski came by, we found some copper wire and he worked it over. I got it home, repotted in January, changed the planting angle and restyled. I rewired this spring, and began needle reduction. In 2-3 years will be a nice little tree. (51376+77)
5) Import JBP- 13 tall, chinese pot, another Brussell's import. In first year of needle work, needs a slight turn in the pot and needs to be wired and repotted. Very mature branching for a recent import I really like this tree in person, can't seem to photograph it very well. (5137
So, no show trees here- but I hope as we talk about the needle control methods of modern JBP management you can begin to see how appropriate candle growth control can lead to fairly rapid development of "younger" trees.
John