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.



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.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 2 2013, 09:44 PM

Misho cascading - It's very easy to start a cascading style from a tree seedling. You can twist and turn what ever way
you like after wiring. However too many twist and turn might result your tree look unnatural or unrealistic.

The followings are some demonstrations of sample ways to generate the initial cascading style in bonsai.
(Apologize for the poor photo quality)

A 6 months old writhigia seeding is perfect for starting a misho cascading style. However I do not have such a material at the moment.
This 1 year old Prenma seen to be good to be trained into cascading style too.



This is all can be done at this stage, will have to wait for about 3 months and watch how the manner of the new foliage grow.



Here's one of my young Prenma started for cascading style about 6 months ago.



...another 4 years old Juniper under training in cascading style. The top portion and the shoot of the Juniper are allowed to grow freely
so that trunk thickening can be faster. a weight is hanged at the tip to pull the shoot down as it grows.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 5 2013, 06:23 PM

Cascading from grown up material.

This West Indian Cherry was potted a year ago. It looks unhealthy and uninteresting.



However, there is an interesting branch....



A good semi cascading material.

Some of my Writhigia cascading pre bonsai.

This one ...I think started about 2 decades ago...



..this is ...about 13-14 years in age.



This is younger...

Limau King !

Wrightia Religiosa Bunjin Update

Autumn was long gone and winter is over....

....... Gandalf has gone for his ring quest...

..... only the strong survive...

Another wonderful weekend !

Trying again to create another simple Wrightia Bunjin....
And this is it

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This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 12 2013, 02:53 PM

The material...


and the size.....

Some of my collections for sharing.

I got some collections mostly materials or in tiga suku stage.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 13 2013, 04:30 PM

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....




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.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 13 2013, 04:32 PM

Bunjin "MAT SALLEH STYLE"

Created this for the fun of photo snapping.

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This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 13 2013, 05:00 PM

Hey Zabel, thanks and count me in !

Mind to share your new addition ?

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 13 2013, 04:37 PM

It's Chinese name is called "chee wei" means purple mellow.
Scientific name - Malpighia punicifolia

Excellent material for cascading style.

Good buy Zabel

Good idea !!! I might do that when I retired.

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.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 15 2013, 07:52 PM

My cascading Malpighia punicifolia "chee wei" for sharing.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 15 2013, 04:31 PM

Potting a garden Juniper shimpaku.



Learning from the experience of trying to do initial cedar shaping. ( All my 3 cedars can't survive due to roots and foliage over cut.)
So, just pot and hope it can survive the "cut".

Malaccan knows best !

I'll recommend go to Min Ho Yuen but go to the one on the right hand side of the Pokok Mangga Road.