Depends on how old you are. If you have a lot of time
the experience of growing from seed gives you control
over root placement and trunk progress. This means
you don't just plant seeds and wait. You have to
watch, transplant, check root structure, cull, cut
back, add/remove sacrifical brances, have losses, and
repeat until you have suitable material for bonsai.

With nursery stock you have to accept the nebari that
comes with the tree and work around that.

I have found Chinese elms are very slow growing even
from cuttings. I have 15 year old cuttings that are
now about 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter.

Kitsune Miko

--- John Kingscott
wrote:
Is it worth trying to sow seeds? I'm thinking for
species you can't seem to
get as saplings -Chinese Elms etc

John
UK


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