Hello everyone,
This is my first post to bonsaiTalk, so I should probably introduce myself. I'm currently living in Seattle, and I've been working with bonsai for the last six or seven years.
Attached is a picture of one of the first trees I ever acquired. The main picture was taken yesterday; the inset shows the tree six years ago. As you can see, it suffered some dieback last year while out of my care. My guess is that the dieback occured because the root system was weakened by a combination of overwatering and an overly-dense soil mixture. Which brings me to my two quetions.
1) Should I risk an emergency repotting now, even though it's a bit late in the year, or should I wait until next spring on the grounds that the tree has good color now and indeed has improved a bit since I re-acquired it three months ago?
2) Should I get rid of the jin low on the main trunk? (See the virtual below).
Thanks in advance for your suggestions!
