Treebeard

Thanks everybody for the encouraging comments.

Fanis, about cut-paste... I would heartily recommend that everybody try hard to get the real thing, BUT, if you live in a place where bonsai supplies are hard to come by, or you are tight-fisted (like me) then you can do the following:

I used the childrens modelling clay known as FIMO, or PRIMO (same thing, different brand names).Work in some common vegetable oil, it takes about 15 minutes worth of kneading for the mix to go smooth. If it isn't smoothly mixed, the clay will dry out on the tree in days, a waste of time. I Store the un-used paste in some tin foil.

I have yet to find out how well this stuff behaves in the long run, but some I applied last August to a tree is still moist. The only problem I can forsee is how to get the stuff off when the cut is healed. I am hoping that the new callus will just push the stuff off...

Regards,

Chris.

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