A Cedar

[Matthew]

Craig
finally got around to a recent pic, had the day off since it is sooo nice .25 today and down to 8 tonight spent most of the day in the bonsai area, pruning ,weeding and repotting some figs long overdue. it stands about 107cm and just had a tip prune, growth had extended 15cm since i last did less than a month ago.

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[Craig]

Thanks Matthew, your tree has good trunk taper, , a beautiful example and one i'll be studying, cheers mate

[Craig]

So last night i decided it was time to give the tree some branch placement and a trim,

The tree didn't lose a single needle from the repot .

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thanks for following

[craigw60]

You have done a lovely job on this tree Craig. Being a deodar they need to be fed and pinched constantly to achieve dense foliage pads
Craigw

[Craig]

You have done a lovely job on this tree Craig. Being a deodar they need to be fed and pinched constantly to achieve dense foliage pads
Craigw

Thanks very much Craig, it hasn't come up too bad at all. I feed it quite often and pinch when needed at the moment, cheers mate

[Craig]

Update for very early Spring.

I removed most of the wires leaving some on the smaller branches and then used a "borrowed" technique, 3 pieces of brown string to gently hold ALL branches down .This was done instead of rewiring the Cedar branches,

pics before budburst on 15/9/12

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pics from 2 days ago.

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cheers

[Pup]

That is some very serious work there mate all the twisting of the twine, is paying off, nicely.

Cheers Pup

[Craig]

Damn right mate, these cedars are slippery customers.