Hello everyone!

This is my first bonsai project, so any advise or idea will be welcome.
I've bought this Taxus baccata today at the nursery, there wasn't so many options and this one looked a bit more interesting to me because of the movement and maybe a 'not bad' nebari. But even if its not the case I'll work on it as well as I'll possibly can














I will repot it probably next month and I have to decide if cut most of the straight body and let just something like 5-10cm for creating a jin and use the first branch as an starting point, or what... Still don't have many ideas, so you're welcome to share yours.

JRA

Just remember that bonsai is an art of patience. Good things takes time.

I normally grow new trees at least a year before repotting and yet another year before start pruning. During that time I have plenty of opportunities to learn about the species and come up with a plan for the specimen.

Thanks!!
My idea of repotting was focus on seeing what's the state of the roots and to put it on a good substrate, but probably you're right.

You can inspect the roots by just lift the tree out of the pot. If the roots is very crowdy I usually slip pot into slightly bigger pot.

Hmmm, I would wait for it to thicken, unless you are happy with that being very small, but even then I would wait before a hard intervention, like hard prunning or rootwork...

I second Tropfrog on that, if the roots are too crowdy/coiling I would slip to a bigger pot, so it can grow more, keeping the rootball...

Sometimes I stare a plant for weeks or months before deciding which way to go... and even then, there is a season to wait for...

A good way of working that begginer anxiety is having another projects going on, that way, when spring comes you'll have a lot of work to do without overloading a single tree, hahahah.

Great advise, i already have two little Olea oleaster to focus on this spring, those will be small ones and are ready to start with style decitions.