Tricky wiring

ozzerbon

G’day folks,

Here’s is a small example of tricky wiring. Two Chaemacyparis obtusa trees in one plastic nursery pot waiting for Spring to arrive before they can be separated.

Tree #1, a semi-cascade is 9cm [3 ½”] high from pot rim, and #2 an eventual elongated style is 17cm [6 ¾”] high from pot rim.

Four pics in total.

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Will_Heath

Why separate them at all? 29895 offers a nice view with both trees, a little reshaping and refinement might bring out something nice.


Will

bonsaikc

I certainly agree with Will! It's a nice twin-trunk composition from that angle.

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Alasdair

I tried posting exactly the same as will 6 minutes after you'd originally posted, but it wouldn't work at the time. And i was going to ask how long the two had been together?

Al

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Vance Wood

I too agree with Will. The tree from this angle is very nice as it is. When one thinks of the risks of separating the two trunks and the possibility of massive failure this view looks even better. If it were mine I would go with it as is. You can make a really nice credible bonsai in a couple of years as opposed to converting this rather nice relationship into two pieces of material with questionable futures as standalones.

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zenwarrior

Im gonna have to jump on the bandwagon on this one. The trees look great together. It looks like it would go nice in a tray landscape.

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ozzerbon

G’day Guys,

Well now all of the above is very interesting and I thank all of you for your seemingly singular and very thoughtful input.

At first sight my first plan was to grow them as a triple trunk, then I thought atop a moon rock, either together or parted, but when I got them home and started into clearing the topsoil, and cutting the plastic pot down by about one third its original height, I was soon to discover that there were two small guys together in the pot. The roots of the smaller of the two kinda curve away outwards to the pot’s edge, as does the other, so each are quite independent of the other, separating them will be no problemo, come springtime.

And I wanted especially to have or to create a near mame-sized tree.

My tree endeavours have taken me further along the path of shohin and smaller, and with my discovery of the finely twisted-convoluted trunks [nejikan style] about a year or so back, I continually search for suitable material. This particular style it seems to me, takes a number of years to establish, with constant refinement, rewiring and ever so slight twisting, reducing the size further down and back as far as one dares without damaging the very small trunks.

Can’t think of how the Japanese folk manage to do it, arriving at such amazing feats of trunk-bending within the space of an inch or two. If anybody knows how they get those incredible bends and twists….PLEASE, please let me know.

As to how long the trees have been together in the pot, I would say no more than a year perhaps two. I bought three pots in all, making four small trees in total.

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