Big fat olive

Some friends and I dug a bunch of these olive stumps last year. This is one of the best I got. I just put it in a bonsai pot today.
These things grow like weeds! I flat cut the bottom of this with my chainsaw and in one year the training box was full of roots.
Paul

Hello Paul. Amazing how some trees can survive with such drastic treatment. Have you a close up of the reduction and hollow?

You can click the thumbnail pictures above for a closer view Will.

I did Kev but they're in deep shade.

will baddeley wrote:Hello Paul. Amazing how some trees can survive with such drastic treatment. Have you a close up of the reduction and hollow?

I am not gentle with trees at the beginning. My friend and early bonsai mentor George Yamasaki always told me "If you are going to kill a tree, do it now."
I'll post some close ups later. Sorry but I am terrible about photographing work in progress, so no early pictures.
Paul

PaulH wrote:I am not gentle with trees at the beginning. My friend and early bonsai mentor George Yamasaki always told me "If you are going to kill a tree, do it now."

wow... very amazing fat!!

I'm not understand this > "If you are going to kill a tree, do it now."

regards,
Pongsatorn.K

pongsatorn.k wrote:
I'm not understand this > "If you are going to kill a tree, do it now."
regards,
Pongsatorn.K

It's sometimes hard to understand sarcasm & irony in what is not your native language. I think he meant, don't be too careful in the original work on a tree. You might as well get it the way you want, even if it is risky. It would be much worse to nurse a tree along for years & then have it die on you. (Happens to all of us.)
Iris

bonsaisr wrote:

pongsatorn.k wrote:
I'm not understand this > "If you are going to kill a tree, do it now."
regards,
Pongsatorn.K

It's sometimes hard to understand sarcasm & irony in what is not your native language. I think he meant, don't be too careful in the original work on a tree. You might as well get it the way you want, even if it is risky. It would be much worse to nurse a tree along for years & then have it die on you. (Happens to all of us.)
Iris

Exactly right!

PaulH wrote:

bonsaisr wrote:

pongsatorn.k wrote:
I'm not understand this > "If you are going to kill a tree, do it now."
regards,
Pongsatorn.K

It's sometimes hard to understand sarcasm & irony in what is not your native language. I think he meant, don't be too careful in the original work on a tree. You might as well get it the way you want, even if it is risky. It would be much worse to nurse a tree along for years & then have it die on you. (Happens to all of us.)
Iris

Exactly right!

Thank you very much Iris and PaulH! .

regards,
Pongsatorn.K

Quite impressive !!
The material has many qualities to become a very impressive tree once it matures.

I used to know a girl called Big Fat Olive, sigh.

Harleyrider wrote:I used to know a girl called Big Fat Olive, sigh.

darn it. I was going to post something like that. pesky mancs...

You knew her as well then? Lovely lass, was Olive.