That's a nice one, it aught to turn out, good.

Samantha wrote: That's a nice one, it aught to turn out, good.

Thank you, Sam If I’m able to find solution for the defects it could turn out well.

Mine is doing great. New growth all over it. Have to work in shaping in to a proper bonsai tree though. It’s somewhat tall and does have many branches lower on the trunk. Will post pictures coming soon!

cwillette1994 wrote: Mine is doing great. New growth all over it. Have to work in shaping in to a proper bonsai tree though. It’s somewhat tall and does have many branches lower on the trunk. Will post pictures coming soon!

Sounds good If you open a progression topic for it, would be great!

Hey Felidae,

How about an update?

leatherback wrote: Hey Felidae,

How about an update?

The thing almost gone, but looks like need to work harder to kill a Chinese elm...

So the story... I’ve built a wooden cage around the pot to straighten up a part of the trunk with blocks and screws and wires.. It wasn’t a time for repot, but I swear, next time on a similar situation, I won’t care. This tree is forgiving if just one thing wrong (..and for a shorter period).
So I built up this cage, sliced out a wedge from the trunk, pulled the cutting edges together with guy-wires and seal the wound. It didn’t helped my one month out, but the real problems started later. The soil was broken down too fast, and I just couldn’t manage it inside the cage. The tree lost not just the vigor, but also every single leaf.
At a point I gave up, released and repotted. Looks like it was enough time on the cage to keep around the point where I like, but still not good enough. I’ll work on that part maybe autumn if the tree feels.

I didn’t touched it since I’ve bounced it back from torpor and thanks for the heavy fertilization, got some leaf size I think to trim on these days.