So this doesn't happen again, you can hold your pots down with wire, a screw or nail either side of the pot fixed to the bench and then bonsai wire across the top of the pot. This practice is very common in Japan to hold trees down.
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Anyone into little trees? (Bonsai)
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Rollo
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You've got a nice young branch to take over the space left by the broken one and a stub to create an aged look too..The pitfalls of living at the top of a hill, 174 metres above sea level, It tends to get quite windy, Strong enough to blow trees off the benches
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As it was before getting blown off the bench!
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John..
It will take a long time to get close to the thickness of the branch at the other side though!!
I have a Field Maple that had all it's branches in the top third of the tree, When a bud appeared below at the correct place I was over the moon, I just had to let it grow untouched to thicken up faster..
One day the wife had been weeding around the edge of the garden and came in proclaiming that she had cut a 'Stupidly long branch back' on one of my trees!
The branch was about six feet long and thickening really quickly, It stopped altogether thickening after that day, She never touches my trees now!
John
Blackrider
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Remember this John ?
Okay, slightly off the thrux of the thread but....
My late husband was heavily into bonsai, he had umpteen plants and had even run a local club.
After he died I had to try and get control back of the garden which had pretty much reverted to wild if not feral. -I had to use Google Earth to locate one of the polytunnels, and on finally cutting my way through to the entrance found what I presume had been a bonsai'd cherry tree, as it was still firmly sat in the small 12" ceramic dish but had grown through the roof and was pushing 30ft in height.
My late husband was heavily into bonsai, he had umpteen plants and had even run a local club.
After he died I had to try and get control back of the garden which had pretty much reverted to wild if not feral. -I had to use Google Earth to locate one of the polytunnels, and on finally cutting my way through to the entrance found what I presume had been a bonsai'd cherry tree, as it was still firmly sat in the small 12" ceramic dish but had grown through the roof and was pushing 30ft in height.
Arrghh!!
They will carry on growing uppards if they manage to get a taproot down through the drainage holes!!
Blackrider
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I’ll repot it as we discussed this back end.Crikey John!!
It still looks healthy!!
John