Juniperus Rigida (not Bonsai-related, Eh)

Bonjakob

Hey..

Today when I had nothing to do i decided to go out and train the Juniperus I have been lookin at.. I have NEVER trained a bonsai before so i thought this would give me some experience. The tree grows wild in a little forest near my house and I wouldn't even think about trying to train it as bonsai (people say Rigidas are impossible to keep alive). anyway, this is how it lookED

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Carl_Bergstrom

Jakob,

I don't know who "they" is, but it sounds like "they" don't know what they are talking about. Juniperus rigida (needle juniper) is a classic bonsai subject in Japan.

See e.g. http://www.bonsainl.nl/BPG/BS_A0026.HTM

You might also take a look at this thread: http://forum.bonsaitalk.com/showthr...=&threadid=5786

Best regards,
Carl

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Bonjakob

(still don't understand anything about ''how-to-post-a-thread-to-bonsaitalk'', my english could be better )

however, I went out to my object and started...
the first thing i did was to cut off all branches which i didn't like, I had no picture inside my head of how I wanted it to look when finished
(I hope I don't get banned from bonsaitalk for that )

well, i kept on cutting branches. Then i cut off the top and made it shorter. I also made some Jin's and a shari.. haha.. I've never read anything about how to make jin's and i don't even know how a shari sould look like, but i did it in my own way (still hope that I don't get banned)

this is how it looked after my ''training''

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Bonjakob

now I needed some wire.. ah, i found some really good 1mm IRON wire .... With my iron wire and wire-cutter i started to style the tree (which probably will die in a week or two )

after about 15 minutes the tree was ''finished'' and then looked like this:

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Bonjakob

Now my tree is show-ready, I just can cut the trunk, put the tree in a bag and bring it to a bonsai competition.. ..

well well, what to say.. at least i got some wiring-lessons kept by... myself.

have a nice day.

here's my proffesional Jin:

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Bonjakob

omc:

''they'', or ''people'' as i changed it to are people i've been talking to about rigidas. ''they'' say that it's ALMOST impossible for a R. to survive in a pot. isn't that true? we have loads of them here

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Bonjakob

aargh.. my mistake. this tree IS NOT a rigida it's a JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS.. my apologies. so I haven't heard anything about rigidas, only about COMMUNIS.. but thay are hard to grow, aren't they?

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RonMartin(deceased)

Not really a hard tree to grow given the right climatic conditions but, not a good bonsai subject. My opinion anyway. Others may differ and that is ok.
I do think that there are just to many other junipers that are better suited. BUT THAT IS ONLY MY OPINION.
Gosh I hate doing that but one never knows who will be lurking. Might just be a lover of the COMMUNIS. (or worse)

TreeBay

I don't know about the characteristics of the foliage, but this particular tree looks like it might have potential.

What did that knot of wire accomplish?

Regards,

Matt

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