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A Couple of Phoenix Grafts

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Post  thomasj Sun Dec 26, 2010 5:49 pm

I have a friend who just opened a bonsai nursery and needed some help getting some of his trees up to par for selling. I told him after spotting these two shimpakus in a phoenix graft style, that I would like to see if I could improve on them somewhat. I took them home and began the work almost immediately. Really all that was needed was some good wiring and some good clean up on the foliage. The pics show the before and after with the befores on the left side.

On the bottom pic, the after pic shows my styling after the tree was turned about 45deg. I especially like the way that one turned out .

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Post  Storm Sun Dec 26, 2010 8:34 pm

Very nice. Shows you can get good improvements with little work!
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Post  Hawaiian77 Sun Dec 26, 2010 9:00 pm

Howzit Thomas,

Nice Job. ThumbsUp Sometimes they only need some TLC that's all.

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Post  Ravi Kiran Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:42 pm

Hi Thomas congratulations on some excellent specimens of Phoenix Grafts. Had you not mentioned that these trees were indeed phoenix grafts, to me atleast there was no way of figuring it out. Excellent technique and styling. Keep at it thumbs up

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Post  Rob Kempinski Mon Dec 27, 2010 1:54 pm

Good refinement of the foliage. Is there anyway to see more of the life line, at least part of it? It would improve the look of the trees.

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Post  rexman Mon Dec 27, 2010 3:52 pm

excellent improvement! thanks for sharing

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Post  thomasj Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:57 pm


Rob, The second tree could probably be turned a bit more to expose a little more of the lifeline, but the first one has it going exactly up the middle of the tree in the back and wouldn't work at all. Sad
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