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Pick up this Lepto today. It had good movement and some good branches to choose a new leader and create taper in the trunk line. More to come.....

Think this has real potential. Any comments welcome. I'll wait till spring and prune back to a single leader then regrow. Can you prune hard and repot/root prune at the same time?

Thanks
Josh

I quite like the last shot as the front (but I'm new)! I teems to have the best movement, to me, that is...

I love the commentary on taking the tree away! Nice tree too, look forward to its development.

Thanks for posting Josh,
You are right in saying that this fella is a goodun.
Great movement in your last photo and a good size trunk.
I like the way you handled getting it into your car
It's not so simple when you have an actual bonsai that won't fit into your car.
Cheers......Brian

CoGRedeMptioN wrote:I quite like the last shot as the front (but I'm new)! I teems to have the best movement, to me, that is...

Thanks CoGRedeMptioN, yes the last photo is most likely the front. I just have to decide which branch to use as the new leader, left or right branch ??

Mount Nasura wrote:I love the commentary on taking the tree away! Nice tree too, look forward to its development.

Was rather funny watching the look on their face asking for a pair of secateurs to cut 3/4 of the tree off , his reply "you want to what

Brian Bishop wrote:Thanks for posting Josh,
You are right in saying that this fella is a goodun.
Great movement in your last photo and a good size trunk.
I like the way you handled getting it into your car
It's not so simple when you have an actual bonsai that won't fit into your car.
Cheers......Brian

I've been watching this tree for over a year now. I loved the tree and movement but wasn't willing to pay their price, finally they dropped the price to a reasonable amount
I have a couple of trees that fit into your last statement and have no idea how I'll transport them

Josh

Josh wrote:I have a couple of trees that fit into your last statement and have no idea how I'll transport them

Josh

Lol, you have Jeep (?!?) use a trailer … It's probably not a Jeep, but their adds are quite frequent ...

Josh wrote:I've been watching this tree for over a year now. I loved the tree and movement but wasn't willing to pay their price, finally they dropped the price to a reasonable amount

I have a few trees that I picked up that way. Waited too long on the last one though, and it was gone when I went back to look for it. Oh well. I've had luck telling them how long I've been watching it and asking when they would drop the price so I could buy it too. Only at big box stores though, I wouldn't do such a thing at a bonsai nursery where they put so much work into them.

Took this tree to our native bonsai workshop today. Cleaned up the roots and picked a leader. Just needs to back bad now and grow some new branches. Josh