Rainy Day Project

ChrisM

Adam MA and I have both taken advantage of a great deal at home depot. (you can see adams project in the Easter Project thread) i, unlike adam, was not fortunate enough to find a single straight trunk, but rather a tree with three trunks. i have spent the last hour or so pruning away to open up and show the trunks and am now going to begin to shape the tree and finish its initial design. i will then give it a rest before any root pruning or potting will be done. here is what i started with:

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ChrisM

and where i am at right now:

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ChrisM

i have a pretty good idea of where i would like to take this tree and am keeping my fingers crossed that it will cooperate and go there. i'll post more pics as i progress.

chris

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D3rutat

aren't your hands a little swollen from all that poking??

Looks pretty nice but i don;t have any idea on where you are going with it

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Adam_MA

Chris,
Looks like you got yourself a good tree to work with. The extra trunks will make for an interesting challenge. Can't wait to see how you finish this baby!

Good luck
Adam

midwestbonsai

Any updates Chris?
-Paul

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ChrisM

ya, the moving truck backed over it when i was moving last spring, that should about cover it. it was cut back quite a bit in hopes of creating a certain look, but in my haste, i cut off a lot of what i should have left and forgot about it (at least until it had something more to work with). never took any more pics, the thing was hideous.

chris

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rockm

"but in my haste, i cut off a lot of what i should have left and forgot about it (at least until it had something more to work with). never took any more pics, the thing was hideous."

Spoken like a true bonsaiist.

We all have hideous trees, or worse hideous DEAD trees, lurking in the garden bed, underneath benches. I have several skeletons of really bad dead stuff thrown into the woods behind the house...

pootsie

Hideous and dead. Like the newbie nightmare I share with you now?

pootsie

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