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Bonsai Doer
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,369
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This week
I started Tuesday by cutting off all the branches again except one which would be the new temporary leader. Even though these tridents are bullet proof, you can over work them and cause them to just shut down. They might not die but they will seem like it and the uninitiated will throw them away thinking they are dead.
What I mean by temporary chop is that by chopping down about half way from where I want to end up and taking off all the branches I can send the tree into survival mode and it will bud low where I want it to. I need to chop this down to about 2.5 to 3 inches above the soil to get shohin tree. Right now its about 6 inchs above the soil.
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A tree a day...thats all we ask.
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