Even if it is, I couldn´t resist this BEAUTY!!! for just 35 euro, so lets see what comes out of it
And even though it was obviously freshly repotted into akadama on top and "bonsai substrate" beneath it, I washed out the roots and moved it into zeolite.
And had my way with it. Top left branch will be shortened too later when if buds out closer to the trunk.

Yup.. Would not really refer to this as a mallsai. Pretty decent tree i think.

Not bad ehm? That's why I got it. Of course it had long straight taperless branches, but with slight rotation and very slightly different front they are actually quite allright positioned, so by shortening them and now letting them grow under controll, this could be a decent tree in a short time. I might airlayer it next year for a better nebari.

Come in to the Challenge, Mimo!!! Please.. ^^

Mimo wrote: Even if it is, I couldn´t resist this BEAUTY!!!

It's never too late for talented people.
Welcome to the contest, Mimo!

I vote against it. Mimo will use his tricks and penjing magic to make us all look bad.

Auk wrote: I vote against it. Mimo will use his tricks and penjing magic to make us all look bad.

Yeah.. I want badly his participation cause of the same Penjing magic.. I want to loose with grace!

Thanx for the kind words fellows
I titled this as it is just for fun, not meaning to interupt your already a nice while ongoing contest
Contests are not really my thing anyway.
And the idea behind this one was to get a similair plants that are mallsais at the first sight I guess.
I found this one on an eshop from where I get my ulmuses for my landscapes for sale, and this caught my eye, because it was a bit better looking than all of the rest. Although I consider it still a mallsai - rusty wire marks, awfull nebari, still an S shape though slightly less pronounced, secondary and tertiary branches going every direction and primaries long and the same width from trunk to the end.
Pros that made me buy it I described earlier, plus the trunk has some taper, athough very slight
And of course, It will be planted in a landscape after I try and make it a natural looking tree.
Ideas:




Anyways, I cannot wait to see the results of your work on every one of the trees in the contest, I believe you all will make something nice from those things

Or I might go with the original front, alhough the top section of the trunk looks a bit straight that way.
But it has a nice flow overall and still would look natural.
What are your thought on this?

Mimo,

How do you do the artwork in these pictures?

I want to do something like it with a couple of the trees I have dug up. My eye just isn't good enough.