Winter is a great time to clean up your bonsai trunk field growing area. In this video I show how I trunk-chop young bonsai trunks and the rootwork needed to create a good nebari on field grown bonsai trunks.
Removing sacrifice branches for better tapered bonsai trunks. Whether Chinese Elm (Ulmus), Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum), Trident Maple (acer burgerianum) or Oak (quercus): All can be grown out as bonsai and develop the key elements of Root spread, Thickness, Taper and Movement in the ground.
0:00 Winter is Grow Bed Maintenance Time
0:44 Why grow bonsai in the ground?
2:54 The ages of trees are in my growbeds
3:30 Transplanting Yew Pre-Bonsai
5:00 Trunk Chop Oak Pre-Bonsai
6:10 Young material: Elm and Trident-maple trunk pruning
7:30 How to develop taper on bonsai trunks with small scars
8:57 Pruning Prunus 'kojo no mai' for bonsai
9:58 Rootwork and pruning of field grown Beech Pre-Bonsai
12:42 Correcting roots and trunkline for taper and Nebari on Field Maple (Acer campestre) pre bonsai
15:30 Big Cut Cleanup
16:25 What to do with the prunings
17:05 Which species are suitable for trunk chopping?
17:44 Maple pre bonsai trunk chop for taper
19:31 Pruning Larch for Bonsai Development
20:35 Summary: Should you grow bonsai trunks in the ground?
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