PROJECT- Hornbeam II

RedPine

Looking good Al! Your collection of sumo trunked shohins you share with us don't have alot of refinemnet just yet..but WOW! You sure can grow them. It is cool to read through the threads seeing you build these bad boys up,. I like the pyracanthia shohin and tridents to, nice fat hornbeam.

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TreeBay

Congratulations, Al - that there is BONSAI! As the rootbase develops you'll have a real winner here for sure! Is it planted in Calidama?

Regards,

Matt

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bonsaial1

Thank you very much Redpine and Matt. No... it is planted in the real-McCoy. Akadama! I have two trees in calidama as a test and a few bags that I use for planting collected stuff in. I am not sold on it completely yet.

It is very hard, almost too hard. I like akadama because it absorbs fertilizer very well and it breaks down just enough that roots can push thru it. If I wanted something this hard I could just use lava for half the price. Nearly the same in the long run.

ak

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bonsaial1

When I look back at the picture of the trunk with the bark ringed, It makes me sad that I had to cut off nearly all those branches that were pretty well ramified. I need two more years to get back to that point.

taking into acount that I started the original project before bonsaiTALK even existed, this has been a long road.

....but I think it will be worth it.

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JohnQuinn

But it's already a better tree thanks to your bold decision. Good thread!

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