• Friday, January 21st, 2005
Newly repotted and wired this tree is looking exceptionally good (if I say so myself). As you can see the tree was previously potted very low in the bonsai pot. Also it was at a bad angle. I repotted this tree into this pot (which I don’t like very much) but was an absolutely perfect fit. I had to pull the top to the right so that it was in line with the trunk and had to pull the first low branch down. This one looks great but is missing back branches badly. They should be in this year so next year this one should be looking show ready. (January 2005)
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• Sunday, October 24th, 2004
This tree didn’t cooperate all that well this year. out of the three grafts that I tried only one took. The biggest challenges were the three hurricanes that hit Central Florida. This tree was moved so often and two of the grafts weren’t strong enough to take the handling. In any case you can see in the picture to the right where the thing twig goes in from the left and where the thick graft took at the right side. I will redo the other two grafts this winter. October 2004
The paste that I used here is available at the Orlando Bonsai Store
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• Saturday, August 21st, 2004
This image is about 4-5 months later. You can see that the thread graft took. The branch on the left is the source of the branch and is the same size as when the thread graft was started. On the right side is where the branch came out and is not grafted to the cambium on the right side. At this point I was able to clip off the branch on the left side and the branch continued to grow.
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• Monday, June 21st, 2004
With all of the new growth recently on this tree I decided to defoliate the tree. I did this for two reasons, first is to shrink the size of the leaves. However I also did it to send more energy to the thread grafts. As you can see in the picture to the left, two of the three grafts are going strong. One didn’t make it. However by leaving only leaves on the graft branches they will thicken up and grow faster as the rest of the tree is producing leaves. I did this last year and it worked very well. I also have on branch with leaves that I will use to finish the third and final graft. It should be ready in about 2 weeks. June 2004
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