Index name for collection: Tree #15
Tree Species: Apple (Common or wild) - Malus sylvestris (more on species)
Style: Informal Upright
History:
2021: rooted one of three runners as ground-layer, zero of three endured tho. Will let stablize longer next summer.
Shown SBBK June 2019 show
Repotted summer 2018 - white rectangular pot
Repotted summer 2016 - same blue pot
Obtained SBBK auction table 25 MAR 2015
Styling: Kind of a pear-shared apple tree! One side dead. Great bark!
Plan: Keep it alive! (Don't let moss rot base of trunk.) Maybe carve some more deadwood - especially as one side is already dead.
Needs a tray kind of pot shallow (~1.5 inch inside depth), oval, glazed a quiet color.
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2022-01-08:
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2020-04-17
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2019-06-01, In SBBK June 2019 Show! With old man beard moss, kitchy small rubber owl, spider webs, centipedes?:
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2019-06-01, see the rectangular white pot, small, far, top left in pix; the Apple amoung the show:
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2018-09-28 Tight on the kitch. HiRes:
2017-02-26:
Repotted; same pot.
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2016-11-27:
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2016-05-06:
Some styling.
2016-01-01:
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Dec 2015:
Some carving on the dead side over the past few month. Added some moss high up the trunk, and old man beard moss onto some branches!
August 4, 2015 SBBK first Tues workshop:
- Can't thread graft onto the dead side! - abondoned that silly plan and wiring
- Jin and Shari whole dead side - will be difficult tho due to how long it has been dead
- Dead side is front as it leans in toward viewer
- technique: let the top grow to bud out the apex
May 15, 2015: Starting the long top to wire down and drill through to make a new number one branch where the current trunk crevice is!
Many more buds have appeared and opened!
After some trimming and wiring and rock hanging and carving:
Photo 2015-05-02
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Both sides of tree on 2015-03-26:
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Obtained SBBK auction table 25 MAR 2015.
Kind of a pear-shared apple tree!
Looks like one side may be dead;
removed tons of cut paste,
relocated some trunk moss (rotting out the base at ground layer making the slight pear shape),
and removed a few clearly dead small branches.
Great bark!
A few buds still to open.
Did some carving of straight branch cuts (to make them look more like a break a while ago, removing tool use evidence);
wired a few branches;
tweaked hold-down wire.
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This section NOT of trees I own!
Two pix (to help show it's not photoshopped) of a full size fruit on a bonsai. I love the 'James and the giant peach' feel!
fullsize fruit
This one has full size leaves, and one assumes, full size flowers. As a comparison, the grey pot bonsai is less horticulturally impressive, but a more refined bonsai as the leaves and fruit are more to scale for the big old tree look.
Bonsai techniques:
- Remove all fruit / flowers except this one targeted piece of fruit. This one piece gets all the plants' attention and thus gets big! (Also default bonsai shaping limits leaf growth anyway, yet more energy for the fruit.)
- Wire or support the "giant" fruit to prevent it breaking off prior to achieving the desired size. Tree clearly needs to be wired to pot nicely.
- This tree may be grafted. (Apples usually are; this looks like a Gala.) Or it could be from an air-layer or ground-layer in origin.
- Most of the mass of a plant (and its fruit) comes from the air, carbon from CO2, not from the soil/fertiliser. They do, of course, need to get nitrogen from somewhere, which is probably fertilizer. F0sh
- All other fruit is removed for "one perfect apple". Leave the fruit on the tree to rot. Represents life and death. phantomprophet
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