Styling a Sea Green Juniper

pdbbonsai

Greetings
This is a sea green juniper (i believe) that recently went thru a styling. It is 10 inches tall (apprx) and has a 5" root base. This is a before pic.

Paul

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And after a good hour and a half (not to mention the weeks on end of looking at it) this is the result. I plan to rest it out the remainder of the summer. It has been hot the last few weeks and most of the trees on my bench have been snoozing away with no growth (conifers). I hope to see growth on this tree before I do anything else.

Paul

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I think you have done a great job with the initial styling.

This is about where you'd hand the tree over to a grafting master like Mas Ishii, and in about 35 minutes he'd have done 15 grafts of shimpaku juniper foliage.

If you ever get an opportunity to attend a grafting workshop, go for it. It's worth heading down to Chikagu-en, the Southern California nursery where Mr. Ishii works, just to learn how to do it.

I couldn't pretend to tell you by internet how it's done. It's hard to believe in person. He makes 3-5 shallow but long parallel cuts, each a bit shorter than the last, creating a flap of very flexible wood, then and he inserts a pair of short, fat scions and ties it off with a tiny strip of green tree tape. He'd have finished it by the time you read the next sentence.

With a little aftercare, in six months you're looking at an entirely different tree. Besides, the legendary shimpaku foliage, you'd have growth right where you need it on that first branch.

Great job with the work, though. It is looking just right.

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bonsaial1

Nice job Mr. Berish. Does not even look like the same tree. You think if you pinch back hard the lower limb will bud back? Is it still 10" tall? AK

Earl

Thanks for sharing the before and after. With all those branches it must have been tough to know where and what to cut but you succeded!

Earl

Carl_Bergstrom

Looking good, Paul.

Though I must confess that I miss the "Eagle throwing a knuckleball"

-Old Mister

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Hi again,

The tree is now a whopping 11" tall.

Paul

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