This is a newbie question that may help others too. I have a shohin California Cork Bark Oak bonsai
that keeps wanting to send shoots out about every month or so on one branch and I keep pruning it
back about 1/4 inch from a leaf, but the shoots keep coming. Now it is starting to look rather bad
with a bunch of cut off limbs on that branch. Any advice as to what to do in this situation? I've
enclosed a photo so you can tell better what's going on. Many thanks to a great group!

Gary R. Huff
bonsai student since 2004
Virginia
Zone 7a

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Gary Huff wrote:
This is a newbie question that may help others too. I
have a shohin California Cork Bark Oak bonsai that keeps
wanting to send shoots out about every month or so on one
branch and I keep pruning it back about 1/4 inch from a
leaf, but the shoots keep coming. Now it is starting to
look rather bad with a bunch of cut off limbs on that
branch. Any advice as to what to do in this situation?
I've enclosed a photo so you can tell better what's going
on. Many thanks to a great group!

Gary R. Huff bonsai student since 2004 Virginia Zone 7a

The place for pictures is on the gallerys at
www.internetbonsaiclub.org. We don't allow them here.

Usually in situations like you describe, it's best to remove
the entire branch and starting over at that site.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Only
where people have learned to appreciate and cherish the
landscape and its living cover will they treat it with the
care and respect it should have - Paul Bigelow Sears.

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