Thanks you very much Victrinia and eeiko 321. Very kind words from the both of you. I did some repotting yesterday and actually repotted this tree into a nice bonsai pot. I was going to go with a grow pot. However, the root ball reduced very well and was very strong so I felt confident that it would take well to its permanent home.
I will post some pics of the treee in its new pot tomorrow. The new pot really shows off the literati qualities of the tree becasue you can see more of the trunk now and there is actually some nebari.
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Thanks for part 1 of the tutorial and for reminding me of literati. It's been a long time since I thought about literati and now I realize I have a lot of opportunities with nursery stock (no pre-bonsai here) if I go literati. I'd been limited myself to other styles and not finding much material I wanted to worth with. I'm hitting the nurseries tomorrow.
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Hello Karydas, glad I could remind you of the literati style. Literati is one of my favorite styles, aside from informal upright. Many trees I have encounted over the past 2-3 years have made nice literati. I am in the middle of training about 3-4 right now actually.
Although it may look like an easy style, it is probably one of the more difficult styles to pull off well. One of the reasons for this is becasue a literati has to have a thin, elegant trunk, but at the same time, the tree must have some age to it. So you have to find a tree that hasn't grown much girth in the trunk, but yet has some age to it. There are some exceptions where a younger tree can make a good literati, like the smaller ones that have a nice tapering, winding trunk. Thanks again
Rob