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Pretty much every good bonsai tree you see anywhere has been trunk chopped at some point. There is really no other way to get a thick trunk then to let it grow then chop it back.

So it doesn't really matter if you started training your bonsai from seed, or from a collected tree, or from a shrub from a nursery. The same techniques are used. There is no lesser value in doing it one way verses another.

- bob

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