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• Sunday, August 16th, 2009

I have been looking for a clump style bonsai for a long time, but never have been able to find one that I really liked.  However yesterday when I visited Jim Smith’s nursery I was able to track one down.  This is a pretty large planting, and will take some work to get it right, but it is easy to see that this will be a great bonsai one day.

Raw clump pre-bonsai

Raw clump pre-bonsai

 Here it is as I bought it.  It never fails to amaze me when I see the small amount of roots needed to support so much foliage. 

Clump repotted

Clump repotted

I wanted to do a few things by repotting this tree.  First I will get a wider root base.  So when I repot in to a more shallow pot in the future I will have more surface roots.  Also I need to get more energy to the top of these trees so I can develop more branching.  Also I want to add another trunk on the far right side to balance the tree.  Right now I have 6 trunks and I need to get to an odd number and 7 is the goal.


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