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Hi Carl:

I tried to get the pictures in the right sequence, but it seems every time I reloaded the images they came up the way they wanted so I just let it fly that way. The middle picture is the more finished tree.

I do a lot of my training in my planters. It's easier to work on them than when they are in the ground and they respond better than they would in a bonsai pot. As you know the planter is designed so as to encourage a massive amount of fine feeder roots. In fact the design all but stops the formation of large sub-surface roots because once the root tip reaches the outside of the soil ball the root divides----it is in fact continually pinched in a benigne manner that does not shock the tree and allows it to continue to grow with out the obligitory shock therapy of standard root pruning.

27-Dec-2004	#3
Vance Wood bonsaiTALK ArchMaster Join Date: Sep-2002 Location: Roseville Michigan Country: USA USDA Zone: 5/6 AHS Heat Zone: ? Posts: 2,329	Hi Carl: I tried to get the pictures in the right sequence, but it seems every time I reloaded the images they came up the way they wanted so I just let it fly that way. The middle picture is the more finished tree. I do a lot of my training in my planters. It's easier to work on them than when they are in the ground and they respond better than they would in a bonsai pot. As you know the planter is designed so as to encourage a massive amount of fine feeder roots. In fact the design all but stops the formation of large sub-surface roots because once the root tip reaches the outside of the soil ball the root divides----it is in fact continually pinched in a benigne manner that does not shock the tree and allows it to continue to grow with out the obligitory shock therapy of standard root pruning.