Some smallish JBPs in progress

Vonsgardens

Hi,
Thought I would post some pics of some of the smaller JBPs we areworking on to develop. Typically, we see great transformations of yamadori from raw stock to bonsai. This is an extremely imortant part of bonsai. The trees we are posting are all nursery grown JBP's- one from here in the US and four imports. None of these trees would be considered to be show ready, but most are well on their way to having balanced foliage and will get rewired this winter.

1) Import JBP- 31/2" tall, in a Sara Raynor pot, 21/2' base and then a top view. This tree was moved fom a clay training pot to this one last year, in second year of needle reduction work. (51372+73)
2) Import JBP- 9" tall, Chinese pot, imported by Brussell's bonsai, came out of quarantine this spring and is currently undergoing first round of needle reduction through candle and needle work. (51374)
3) Import JBP- 12" tall- Chinese pot- In third year of needle reduction work. Needs a slightly deeper pot and will be truned about 1/8th turn for new front. Old tree- about 40 years old. (51375+ 51379)
4. Domestic JBP- 14" tall- in Bryan Albright pot. This tree was field grown by our very own OKBonsai (Frank) and then potted up. I was at Frank's with a good friend from Colorado in 2005 about the 1 week before the WBC convention in DC. Frank lamented that he had a few trees that he just couldn't figure out why he had dug, this was one of them, he still had it as an informal upright. I bought the tree, pruned a few lower branches off and took it to WBC to work on while I was Vending. Rob Kempinski came by, we found some copper wire and he worked it over. I got it home, repotted in January, changed the planting angle and restyled. I rewired this spring, and began needle reduction. In 2-3 years will be a nice little tree. (51376+77)
5) Import JBP- 13 tall, chinese pot, another Brussell's import. In first year of needle work, needs a slight turn in the pot and needs to be wired and repotted. Very mature branching for a recent import I really like this tree in person, can't seem to photograph it very well. (5137

So, no show trees here- but I hope as we talk about the needle control methods of modern JBP management you can begin to see how appropriate candle growth control can lead to fairly rapid development of "younger" trees.

John

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	Mame JBP 1.jpg (48.9 KB, 198 views)
	mame jbp 2.jpg (67.8 KB, 91 views)
	shohin jbp 1.jpg (55.5 KB, 171 views)
	medium pine 1.jpg (60.9 KB, 239 views)
	bunjin 1.jpg (43.3 KB, 148 views)
	bunjin 2.jpg (72.3 KB, 81 views)

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	chuhin JBP.jpg (69.8 KB, 167 views)
	medium pine 2.jpg (70.7 KB, 66 views)

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irene_b

Hey John,

Nice looking stuff!
Are you perhaps going to do an Article on Domestic Grown and Styled JBP along with care, etc.?
I believe it will be well recieved here at BT.
Irene

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teddybonsai

very nice trees, thanks for sharing them. I have a number of JBP in the ground and will be digging some of them up next spring. It is a slow proccess growing them from seed.

anttal63

nice work john if you were here i know where i would be buying my trees.

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zube

All very nice, John! Thanks for posting.
zube

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OKbonsai

Very nice trees John. I had the pleasure to view these and more yesterday when Harry and I traveled over to John and Von's. As always we had a great time. I am always amazed at the tree John got from me. I just didn't know what to do with it but John saw the tree in it and has it on it's way to being a very nice bonsai. Here is another one along the same line that I didn't think I would ever sell. But I had a friend over and we worked all day around the nursery and he said early on in the day how he liked the tree so I gave it to him for all his help. Like John, David has found the tree.
Again John nice trees and keep up the good work.
Frank

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davids JBP.jpg (55.2 KB, 128 views)

AndyWilson

Some fantastic potential there...

Mcspeed

I don't know John, 51378 will be a show stopper some day,IMHO.

Some wonderful work, thanks.

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