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Originally Posted by M.B.
Hey Pup, do you or have you in the past ground grown bonsai, especially seedlings? How do you get the trunks to have "character"? I ask because I have several hundred trident maple seedlings that self seeded over the years in my yard. Most of them are as straight as telephone poles and I really don't want to wire a hundred plus seedlings. The smallest ones are the size of a pencil, on up to 1 to 1 1/2 inch trunks.
Mary B.
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G, day Mary. I have grown in the ground, but I have to admit that what you are growing is far more than I have done.
The only advice I can give you, you have already discounted.
By far the best way to treat any ground grown stock is to start it as a bonsai from day one. My reason for ground growing is to fatten up trunks.
I am sorry I could not give you a quick fix for that.
Pup