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[IBC] How Not To Train a Bonsai
Well, I am going to Schenectady after all. The Mohawk-Hudson Bonsai Society
invited neighboring clubs to visit, & exhibit a few trees during their visit. So I will go for a few hours Sunday afternoon. Being encouraged by a lady from California, I trimmed the ends on my crabapple, 'Indian Summer.' I am really enjoying this tree. It hasn't bloomed yet, but it has wonderful red new leaves. I think the pinching & defoliation I have been doing has reduced the leaves a bit. I really lucked out with this one. I bought it from Bonsai West around 1999. It wasn't shaping up too well. About a year later in August, I didn't water it in time & found it badly shriveled, so I hastily stuck it in the ground to recover. When I dug it up a year & a half later, the trunk had greatly improved, but I had to start the branches over again. It didn't want to bud back lower on the trunk, so last year I did a thread graft, which took like iron in only one season. Compared to pictures I have seen of young crabapples, ramification is coming along quite well. The upper part of the trunk is gnarly, curvy, & nicely tapered. More luck. For the first few years, every winter & every time I wired it, or did something with it, the leader died or broke off. So I had to train the next branch up as the leader, about five times. It had the same result as the books tell you if you do it on purpose, LOL. The figurine I picked for this tree yesterday is an old-fashioned African-American lady named Lottie (according to her label). She is at a family reunion (part of a series), sitting barefoot on a tree-stump, eating fried chicken & a hamburger. The scene keeps drifting me back to Marc Connolly's "Green Pastures." I apologize for the stereotype. If I ever get my act together, I will post a picture. Iris ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Mike Page ++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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