Spruce: bonsai from nursery

text and photos by Alfredo Salaccione

 

Sometimes going aroud for nursery it's possible to find some good material.

This spruce, a Christmas tree, had a nice base and some movement in the fist part of trunk.

The first work was a drastic cutting and the complete change of old clay soil with a mixture of akadama and pumice stone.

After two seasons the tree is very strong. It is ready for the second step.
A little shary help me to dissimulate a large cut on a big root.
Jin and shary must be fired to stop resin and dissimulate the recent work.
Spruce's branches are very elastic, and so they need of long time to take the shape. It's better to let wire and guy wires for long time on the primary branches.

I decide to cut the first branch on the right, in this way the tree looks less heavy.

 

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