Steve,
My experience is that the tree can be pruned at any time. You can prune
older branches as well. Try to keep some foliage on the older branches.
Since it is a new tree you might allow your tree free growth for a few
months and let it get really wild before you cut back anything. This will
give the new tree time to store energy before you cut it back.
Jerry Meislik
Whitefish Montana USA
Zone 4-5
http://www.bonsaihunk.8m.com/
Ok on my only second purchase of a Bonsai and this one is well developed and
shaped. Must be many years old due to it's main branch structure and
thickness which is especially so at soil level... around 3 inches.

Since my knowledge at present is limited I would like to know how and when
to prune new branches.

As new shoots develop should I consider pruning some of the old branches
too?

It is growing like wild fire in the couple of weeks in my possesion.

I just hate to prune new shoots as I like to see them grow!! However one day
I guess I'll have to take my pruning shears to them :-(

Steve


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Ok on my only second purchase of a Bonsai and this one is well
developed and
shaped. Must be many years old due to it's main branch
structure and
thickness which is especially so at soil level... around 3
inches.

Since my knowledge at present is limited I would like to know
how and when
to prune new branches.

As new shoots develop should I consider pruning some of the old
branches
too?

It is growing like wild fire in the couple of weeks in my
possesion.

I just hate to prune new shoots as I like to see them grow!!
However one day
I guess I'll have to take my pruning shears to them :-(


Steve,

You need to start doing some reading -- as in books and
magazines, not the I'net. Then, find a local bonsai club or
group and join. Take your tree to the meetings and let them
guide you.

After a bonsai is "well developed and shaped" you usually do very
little "pruning." You pinch off new growth that goes toward
unwanted places, and you snip at the edges here and there, and
you work religiously on its roots, and you wire the twigs for
shape. But your "pruning" is done (or in this case, done for
you).

Unless, of course, you decide that you want to completely change
its shape -- in which case you very well might want to prune off
some of the old branches.

Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - The phrase
'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. - Stephen Viederman

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