Two Simple Tricks With Bonsai Wire 12/10/16

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Japanese white pine from our 2017 Bonsai Calendar (Sorry, sold out). This tree has no doubt been repeatedly wired over years of development.

The  photo above is from the October page of our 2017 Bonsai Calendar. The rest of this post is from March 2010. Two dates separated by more than eight years. But the advice is timeless.

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Too long and too straight. We all know you can add curves to a branch that is too straight, but did you know that you can also use wire to shorten a branch that is too long?

 

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Much better. Now it's much shorter and much more interesting.

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halfCrack! Branches sometimes crack. In fact, experienced bonsai artists sometimes intentionally crack a branch in order to bend it more than it normally would. Either way, you need to stabilized it while it heals (see below). You also need to apply sealing paste (cut paste).

 

half2Keep it still. You can use a guy wire to prevent any more downward movement while the branch heals. All four drawings in this post are from Bonsai Today issue 21.

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