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Anyone kind to explain more on cascading style? And how to generally shaping a nursery material to it? Thanks

This ficus will never be weird. Lots of reshaping will be done as it grows in order to ensure it to turn into a decent looking bonsai.

The aired roots near to the main trunk will be coiled around the trunk as it grows, so to enable them to fuse together.
The fusing of roots and trunk will help to speed up trunk thickening and enhancing the characteristic of Ficus.

The lower branches will be cut to expose about a third of the tree height. This will only be done when the over tree height of the tree be determined.
The remaining branches will be cut off alternatively and selectively when decision has made on what to do to the top of the tree.

Now come the top part of the tree.
Presently this part is in a very unpleasant looking shape.
It's like a neck connecting a head to a body.
If new branches can grow from the "neck" portion, then the gap will be filled and the "neck" will disappear. If not, the "head" will have to be cut off allowing
new shoots to grow, then select a suitable new grown shoot to form the apex. Anyway, ficus is a specie that can back bud easily. New branches grow from the "neck"
portion is very possible.

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At this stage, this tree is far from finished. It is potted and so growth will slow down, it might take another 3-4 year to reach a decent looking stage.

Wah how many more to dig Cj? Hahaha if u have too many can move some to my house.

Sharing my mulberry which recently triumphant over the mealybugs & started fruiting. Bought in May this year & is adjusting pretty well to training.
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Maybe I should try tilting the tree & use the fattest section as the main trunk line? Bottom trunk I'll have to wait for the nebari to build up.
Looks good? I'll try... Hahaha
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Some of my collections for sharing.

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Bunjin  "MAT SALLEH STYLE"

Created this for the fun of photo snapping.

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That specie is called Juniperous porcumbens. Chinese call it "sleeping pine"
It's not a pine species. Because of its characteristic of growing side way, like sleeping, that's the reason it got it's Chinese name.
I don't like this specie much because it need frequent maintenance. 

This one,  took me an hour to restore back to a quite presentable shape but with that big ball of foliage, make the tree look somehow unbalance.
..... just let it be lah....

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This is another "sleeping pine" which I've actually thrown into the garbage wheel borrower because it was badly infected.
My wife salvaged it and left in a corner of my garden for a couple of months, it survived. And so I decided to give it a second chance.

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This specie belongs to the False Cypress family.
Probably Boulevard or Japanese False Cypress, hope somebody can give its exact identification.



False Cypress is not a material for bonsai but garden plant.
Mainly due to foliage near to the main stem grow vigorously and easily dry up.



Back budding is extremely slow, and very often new shoot will not grow at all after a branch is cut.

In order to keep a False Cypress looks green without dry foliage, the branches along the main stem must be thin out
to allow sunlight shines directly to the stem and branches.

mini shui mei 

Hi Guys,

Got any good stuff?

"Small suggestion is to create some gaps in canopy so birds can fly through. This would create more interest as well. Or try to create many pads that makeup The whole pad. (Breaking away from the mushroom look)"

Sorry, can't catch what you mean? ... allowing bird to fly through ? 

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these r nice huang yang...