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Originally Posted by bwaynef

Apparently I'm just posting links today. Take a look here for some good advice on how to get TO the pre-bonsai stage where you can start working on the last 10%.

http://evergreengardenworks.com/trunks.htm
http://evergreengardenworks.com/pines2.htm (particularly where he talks of "forcing")
http://evergreengardenworks.com/crabappl.htm (training young material)
http://evergreengardenworks.com/growfast.htm
http://evergreengardenworks.com/growprin.htm

Brent is one authority on growing pre-bonsai. He's also one of the most prolific writers of the pre-bonsai growers so his article catalog is fairly extensive and authoritative.

Yeah, I've read a couple of those, thanks for the other links. The Evergreen site is one of the only ones I've found that talks about this in detail. I've found one book that spends a page talking about developing leaders in a trunk chop, but nothing extensive. I'd love to see some pictures of pre-bonsai saying something along the lines of "This will work because..." or "This won't work because...". One book I just got called The Bonsai Workshop kind of does this, but again, just takes a 2 year old nursery tree with a 1 inch trunk and puts it into a bonsai pot.