It’s the beginning of the year and we’re starting off right: trying new techniques! Let’s bend trunks!
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Interested to see what will develop. It doesn't seem to me that it will fuse in a way that will look natural, I would expect to see a noticeable callous on the trunk. If it fuses nicely, I still think you can do the original design concept, you may need to get a large rock and grind out an area for the majority of the roots to go into, but I think it is doable.
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Ive seen that video and wanted to try that out also. But im glad u did 🤣 before me. Cant wait to see what happens. It would be a great technique for much larger trunks or ones that cant bend soo much. I think ive seen an old video with ryan neil doing severe bends like this but cant be sure.
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Well I’m curious if it survives first, but I do like the design. Would look cool in the future in a similar design as the picture.
So glad you are trying it out , I have watched the video as well, if it was I , I would have cut a little deeper to bring the top underneath the hight of the bend , but who am I just my thoughts, Great video and really looking forward to updates . Thank you and happy new year from the UK .
Why do you think it wouldn’t work for deciduous species? I’ve seen some grafting where they fuse pretty nicely
Now this one I can’t wait to see an update on. I saw others do this technique but it is scary! Good job Jerome.
I’m surprised it bent that far because the trunk looked pretty fat to me. It’ll be interesting to see what it looks like in a year.
The bonsai program is special, greetings from a hobby from Indonesia
i'd have done it one wedge at the time, big part of this technique is perfect coesion between layers. works good with pines because the dont really have "veins", in a juniper is better to open a shari and eat wood directly from the trunk
It works on deciduous too: I tried.
thanks for doing this, I have seen this technique filmed many times by asian bonsai dudes, but never seen any follow ups or healed wound shots after.
Hi Jerome it's nice and all that but wont the baubles all fall of now.
Wow! Big bold technique for 2023! 🐦💙
The tree that you showed the technique being done on was a podocarpus in Taiwan. I’m not sure Alberta spruce is as high a water mobility tree as podocarpus, so it might not work as well. Also your cuts weren’t as deep as the demo tree’s. So that would be easier for the spruce to recover from. I’m interested in seeing how your experiment turns out. 🙂
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This technique is the true bravery test. Ive had to pace around my backyard for a while to get hyped up to cut some branches off before. Id probably have to be drunk or something to have enough balls to try this 😂
Hi Jerome, very nice try, I also saw similar technique online and waiting for the right time to try this. What would you say the aftercare is in these kind of situations?
I did a "minor version" of this technique on the branch of my Juniper & Bougainvillea using a knife instead of a saw.
So far none of the branch is dying. I didnt try yet on the trunk, maybe I will try it on my Bougainvillea because
their trunk is Unbendable. Wrapping the cut with plastic film are better than aluminium foil because insect can get in the aluminium foil & its not good at retaining moisture.
aie… les conifères ne réagissent pas comme les ficus et autres arbres tropicaux… J'ai bien peur que les 3/4 du tronc et branches ne sèchent… je suis curieux de voir la suite. Merci pour la vidéo et bonne année
Would this work on Olives ?!?
Very interesting to see the updates 🙂
Do you think it will work on a Chinese elm? Trunk area is about 1/2 thick ?
Need a bend that may take 3 cuts.
Very nice. Can you share what materials you wrapped the trunk with?
I saw videos of people doing this to ficuses on instagram 😅 4:59
Gerome have you ever tried air layering this type of spruce to improve the nebari?