Juniper Restyle

Mr. Ian

Hi all,

I'm new to this forum, and have been involved for about 5 years. I've enjoyed reading all of your postings over the last year or two, and have recently left another forum in favor of this one, which seems a bit more "appropriate" I picked this little guy up at a club sale and just finished the restyle yesterday. All suggestions are entertained. Nice to meet you all!

Ian

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spoonman

hi Ian, i really cant give any advice as i am a noob, and dont want to give you the wrong info. neways welcome!

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DavidN

Ian,
Just a couple of things that I picked up on first glance. Your wire spacing is too close together. This will not do the job of holding the branches down properly. The wire spacing needs to have the wire angle at about 45deg against the trunk.

The other thing is that the multiple trunks are very confusing to my line of sight. It's hard for me to try and explain it in words. My eye moves up the trunk and is taken in different directions with heavier branches. It just gets confusing thats all.

I think this has a lot of potential though and would like to see it develop.

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treenut

I guess if your tree were a painting the style would be referred to as abstract?

DavidN

Ian
Here is what I had in mind for your tree. I think it is also very achievable and it looks more balanced now. Any thoughts from yourself and others?

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pdbbonsai

Hi Ian,

Welcome!

I like Davids virtual alot. But to give you some other thoughts, and a "less is more" approach, I did this virtual. With some patience, you could achieve this in a few years.

What do you think?

Paul

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spoonman

hmm, i like davids more.

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Gary Biggs

Hi, Ian

David's design, in my opinion, places too much weight on the left side of the tree, causing it to appear lopsided. Paul's design would bring the focus back over the center of the nebari, but would result in a sizeable reduction of the tree's mass.

My suggestion would be to raffia wrap and wire your main trunk and bring it forward and more toward the right, lining it up more with the nebari. Put some interesting movement in it also. I would then raffia wrap and wire your second branch and try to make it a back branch by bringing it behind the trunck and toward the right, thus bringing more balance to the arrangement. I would also shorten the lowest branch and put some movement in it as well. Work on developing distinctive foliage pads and ramification.

Just my thoughts.

Good luck.

Gary

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mkonig

Here is my two pennies worth.

I think that the tree needs to sit deper in the pot. As it stands it looks like an "exposed root style not quite achieved". There is a nice beginning of a good nebari there that can be worked with.

I also think that the first branch on the right and the branch above the jin are too thick for the tree.

In my virtual, I have removed most of the foliage to show my thoughts.

I have:
Lowered the tree in the pot
Remove both the lowest branches.
reduced the jin
Sharply bent the main trunk to the right
bent the upper branches down

There obviuosly neds to be a good deal of foliage development in this tree, but plenty of feed and lots of pinching back should give a good result.

Hope that helps

Mike

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