Hi,

I started to make my own bonsai from a nursery plant , but sadly most of the closest nurseries sell small trees and not aged ones so I had to chose this on.I applied a wire and started to turn it into a INFORMAL UPRIGHT but I'm not sure if im doing it right.

Can you share your info about juniper's and their training, how to properly train into INFORMAL UPRIGHT, what I am doing wrong with the tree , what would you recommend , can you give me a soil mixture , some other TIPS about soil , training , the tree which i have now


This is how the Juniper looks now:

Photo1 (before training):http://i.imgur.com/ZQY1W.jpg

Photo2 (started training):http://i.imgur.com/UliOL.jpg

looks good and healthy soil also looks good. the way you have styled it tho is more of a formal style. an informal upright would have more curves in the trunk. the way you have it looks great slight trunk movement and perfect branch placment.personaly i would leave it as is you have a nice tree there and it will only get better with growth...by the way what type of juni is that,the needles look larger and a deeper green than im used to

also what type of camera are you using, that is one of the clearest pictures i have ever seen, i almost want to put as my background

its gotta be an SLR cuz my canon powershot wont take pics like that. cant blur the backgrounds with an autofocus

Looks very nice. When I look at this tree it screams formal upright to me. I would keep the trunk straight and work on developing alternating branches up the trunk. I would also go in and pinch of all of the brown needles. Removing those few brown needles will make the tree look great.

Beastly SLR camera by the way. Stunning clarity on those photos.

Thank you

It's a Juniper Chinensis Blue/Green (that was written on the sticker when i bought it)

Nope its not SLR its a lazer cam (defenatly not a mirror cam).It,s the newest Sony Nex5NKB it's has freakin HD 1080p , and it has not imitational HD but real 100% hd

(Note:If your camera has less than 16 million effective pixels and it say's that it has HD so its not real HD its a HD imitaion (Nex5NKB has 16.1 milion))

The cam cost's • US: $ 699 • UK: £ 599
• EU: € 699 according to the web:http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sonynex5n/2 (I payed 396$(well Lithuanian currency converted to dollars (probably the web was made a wile ago))

Domas22 wrote:

(Note:If your camera has less than 16 million effective pixels and it say's that it has HD so its not real HD its a HD imitaion (Nex5NKB has 16.1 milion))

Nonsense. full HD is 1920 × 1080 pixels, so only 2.073.600 pixels are needed.

thats just for t.v. cameras are different.HD cameras can produce HD t.v./monitor pictures. i think it is a 16.1 megapixel,you could blow that pic up and see the eyes of an aphid on the trunk i bet

this is a blow up of a needle on your tree. all the little squares are pixels. your camera reproduces 16.1 million of these in a picture and that makes a crisp pic

that didnt work ,well if you want to see what im talking about copy the pic to paint an zoom in all the way, you may think its cool