Double Trunk Style Bonsai

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Double trunk style bonsai. This case study shows the collection of a hawthorn tree and its training as a double trunk style bonsai. About a year later the tree responded well and started growing strongly again. The smaller tree must be no more than two thirds the height of the larger. A multi trunk or clump form bonsai has three or more odd numbered trunks growing from the same root base.
Many times this style starts out as a twin tree style soju and over time the two trees eventually grow together forming a double trunk style. This article describes one method of developing a multi trunk bonsai. Especially in japan there are tons of varieties of plants and trees that can be transformed to fit in small pots so young people started to see them less as an art of old era but rather that bonsai can fit in their life style of this day. A double trunk bonsai is one where 2 trunks grow from the main trunk.
It also illustrates a technique for developing the nebari surface roots that can be used for trees with single trunks in development for bonsai. After being spotted the tree was chopped back significantly and left to recover. One of the trunks dominates because of its length or thickness. Double trunk style bonsai sokan the double trunk style is typical in nature but just isn t in fact that typical inside the art of bonsai.
Normally each trunk will develop out of one particular root method however it can also be feasible that the smaller sized trunk grows out in the bigger trunk just above the ground. The double trunk style is commonly found in nature and may occur naturally from a side sprout or seedling from the father tree. Double trunk style a double trunk occurs if a tree develops two trunks out of a single root base. The junction of the trunks at the base must be sharply v shaped and not u shaped.
Double trunk style bonsai sokan the double trunk style is common in nature but is not actually that common in the art of bonsai. In order to force the tree to grow a dens root system a trench was dug around the tree cutting through its thickest roots. The style of enjoying bonsai has been becoming less formal and more casual.