Thanks for the comment Nigel!

Wow! Followed by Nigel. You’ve definitely “arrived”,, Congrats and by the way, beautiful specimen. Good luck. Thanks

Thanks Matt! My family looked at me a little weird when I blurted out the Nigel subscribed on YT, but I was chuffed!

Thanks very much, I've had a lot of fun with this tree. Thanks for the comment!

Haha I'll have to check the video again to see what there was! To be honest it's mostly stuff I'm growing on either for mame/shohin, graft scions, or stuff I experiment on. Thanks for watching :D

Thanks for the feedback 🙏

Thanks I’ll look around for some earthy tones, I hadn’t considered that 🙏

Thanks that’s a good idea, I’ll play around with the angles 👍 pot 2 & 5 are most popular so far, cheers

Thank you so much 🙏

Thanks Mark, I’ll get on it 👍🙏

Thanks 🙏

Thanks, I’ve had lots of fun with this tree! I paid £100 for the 3 trees and sold one for £95, so it is cheap entertainment 😁

@@grobonsai you did very good job :D

Thanks so much Dave 😀

In the post-collection recovery period I personally wouldn’t remove any growth. On a healthy tree with primary branches in place I rub out unwanted buds. With this tree I let it grow to give me future options for grafting, but in all honesty the obviously unwanted buds could have been removed before they extended, it just got away from me. And once they started oh boy did they go for it! Once they were growing I decided to wait until they had hardened to let the tree gain some energy from its investment 😀 So I guess for me it depends on the tree and what I’m doing with it...

Thanks Rob 👍

Thanks, that pot is strong. You're right, it probably would pay to develop it in a training pot. Thanks again

Thanks that’s very kind!

It was something I was thinking about, but on reflection I have enough branches to make the risk unattractive. Thanks again Gordon

@@grobonsai I must admit I havn't tried any sort of grafting; have you?

I haven't done any grafting but you may find this interesting. He is approach grafting saplings of the same species to improve nebari. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d51ghdV32r-4dnU.html

Sorry Gordon, I fell behind. I haven’t attempted grafting yet, it’s something I’m keen to try when the time is right. I’ll checkout the video - thank you 🙏

Thanks really appreciate your feedback

Thanks Rob! They are all Erin’s I’m eyeing up 👀

Gro Bonsai I can tell I’ve loads here and built their website too, great pots dude

You’ve carved out a nice little bonsai technology niche Rob, I’m envious 😁 Guessing you’re in technology alongside Wattstons bonsai work? I’m a software engineer working from home so plenty of time for watering!

Gro Bonsai old skool hacker/programmer back in the day with the cdc, cyberarmy etc, used to program wap sites, online games, proxies etc, now mainly online security, ai, web and crypto stuff mainly, from home also buddy :) and trees are a bonus too, everyone should keep trees :)

At one end it’s kids stuff, at the other end it’s my collection of sticks in pots. The struggle is real!

@@grobonsai I often go to the garden centre with the intention of doing the garden up, come back with future bonsai projects and a cross wife

Haha, same here!

I'll cut the apical shoots back around mid-June early July. I'll allow the lower branches free rein until next Summer. Thanks for the comment!

I might be going ahead with your suggestion, I've been eyeing it up and see your point for sure.

@@grobonsai Are you going to graft it back on :)

Maverick StClare oh lol I misread somehow... thought it meant chopping the trunk back to the lower branch 😂

I’m not sure, it’s royalty free music provided by KZfaq for video creators. I no longer have the files for this vid, sorry

You’re right, I get excited looking at pots 😁 it would develop faster in a training pot though... thanks 🙏

I agree.

Thanks 🙏

Thanks David, leave it with me!

Great observations, thanks

Great, thanks Paul

Here’s the repot, it will be pruned next month kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gNuPYLeinqzDpnU.html

I will look into it, thanks. The weather here is sunny for now, and everything has woken up well. Hope Spring comes for you soon!

Thanks for the feedback, hopefully it will get there, one day 🙂

@@grobonsai don't you have to hope that it rots/ages in an advantageous direction? Carving out what is absolutely unnecessary or wanted but leaving some room for development?

Thanks, it’s good fun! Pot 5 could work, but looking at the shape and dimensions it could be a just a bit too big. In an ideal world I’d buy them all and see what works... 😁 cheers