Clump Style Maple Bonsai

It also illustrates a technique for developing the nebari surface roots that can be used for trees with single trunks in development for bonsai.
Clump style maple bonsai. Covered in this tutorial are elements such as proper seed or cutting stock selection the necessary preparation process for producing a fused base wiring already fused trunks and proper potting techniques for rapid development. Front or back view. Bonsai for less than the price of a shirt duration. A multi trunk or clump form bonsai has three or more odd numbered trunks growing from the same root base.
For years two and three allow the trees to grow and swell at the bases this will result in the beginnings of the clump appearance we are hoping to attain. This article describes one method of developing a multi trunk bonsai. You can imagine that all the smaller trunks started as suckers on the roots of the main tree you could also imagine that they started from seeds dropped by the main tree. These trunks cannot be separate unlike a group cultivation yose ue.
In which case each seed would have its own roots so that wouldn t qualify as a clump style bonsai. We found this extraordinary clump style japanese maple on bonsai nakayoshi sorry the link is no longer active. Clump style bonsai multiple trunks with a single root stystem. Front or back view.
Clump style this is basically the same as the double trunk style sokan. Allow the trees to grow wild for the first year and then perform a fall pruning on the trees. Eisei en bonsai 649 861 views. However we only refer to a multi trunk style if three or more trunks are growing out of the ground from a single root base.
I carefully positioned the trident maple clump in a new container so it would look good from both sides. Only four of the original trunks remained and had grown together creating a clump style bonsai. The reciprocating saw is a handy tool for me and often used when transplanting bonsai. This episode features the process of building and creating kabudachi or clump style bonsai utilizing seedlings or cuttings of japanese and trident maples.