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Fri, Jun 29, 12 at 17:08
| I found several healthy redbud saplings growing underneath my back porch and thought they'd be great to bonsai. The thing is that they can grow pretty big when they are not being made into a bonsai. So my question is if it would be a good time to start making these young saplings into bonsai trees? These saplings are quite young, I'd say maybe one maybe two years old. They're not that big either they range from 7 to 10 inches tall.
Any advice given on when to start making my saplings into bonsai trees is appreciated, thanks. |
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| The process can be started any time, but you need to understand the steps it takes to get from seedling to bonsai. The obstacle here is that you probably don't yet understand what goes into working toward making a tree into a believable bonsai, or how open-ended your question is. That's not a slam at all, just an observation. My suggestion would be to join a club or start researching how to go about it while your tree(s) grow larger. It's not unusual to cut a tree many feet tall (10 ft +) back to a few inches from the ground, then train a sprout as the new leader, only to chop it back in similar fashion a number of times over several years to impart taper, which makes your tree look old and more in perspective to something in nature. A first step on a trident maple center foreground and an oriental hornbeam left background: Al |
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