Earlier this year, this post showed how to clean up callus tissue to keep it rolling over the wound. This is an older zelkova, that has been a bonsai for over 30 years. The last 6 years of its styling are documented here.
Here is a quick update on how the callus did over the last 4 months. The lower-left one is nearly closed, and by repeating the process once more, they probably can be closed in the next year or two.
May:
October:
Not bad after bring completely defoliated twice this year. Next year, it will be repotted again to continue to work on the nebari, which is developing…just under the surface!
I have been studying bonsai since 1994, in an ever-increasing obsessive fashion. In our last 5 years prior to moving from Iowa to Alabama pursuing a career in the foodservice industry, my bonsai collection was limited to a few varieties that could survive brutal winters outside, or winters under dim light in the dank basement of our humble duplex...my wife puts up with a lot. Including the trailer hitch I put on our brown 1983 Chrysler New Yorker to pull a U-Haul full of trees to Nashville for a 3-month stop along the career path that led us to Alabama. 12 years later, we no longer have the New Yorker; and not a single one of those trees remain on my bench, having given the last holdout to a new club member this summer. I prefer collecting native trees and buying the classical species used in Japan, feeding organic, and reading everything I can get my hands on.
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Judy, I will probably use the same pot. The size and shape are right for the tree. I commissioned Byron Myrick to make this pot, as a replica of one I really like (in the book Classic Bonsai of Japan). The size and shape are dead-on, but the glaze fired more yellow than jade. I think it will improve with some age and patina, and I really enjoy the shape.
Nebari Bonsai 
I am in AWE!
I better be careful, or you’re going to want it back now that its “fun-size”!!!
Never could track down Rev. John Holcombe to show him how it turned out.
Looking very good. Will you use the same pot at repotting time?
Judy, I will probably use the same pot. The size and shape are right for the tree. I commissioned Byron Myrick to make this pot, as a replica of one I really like (in the book Classic Bonsai of Japan). The size and shape are dead-on, but the glaze fired more yellow than jade. I think it will improve with some age and patina, and I really enjoy the shape.
What type of pot would you use for it?
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