Help with styling

shrimpy · 04-12-2009, 11:26 PM

Hi Everyone
Here's a little something I found growing in one of my old Bonsai pots.
I can't decide what style to train it as.
every time I turn my back the style changes.
Any ideas?

Shrimpy

JLDoggett · 04-13-2009, 12:47 AM

Hmmm a tiger-striped Felix. They usually decide their best styling and can not be herded to conform to a set style. Just remember they do not like wet feet.

bonsaidad · 04-13-2009, 01:01 AM

Well i would say that what is in there certainly has "cat-kins" growing on it come spring.
Now some call them "Pussy willow", ( paws for a breath ), but i think its some kind of fir tree.

Best regards BD Paul

Pup · 04-13-2009, 02:39 AM

I think the best type of pot for these carnivorous varietys is a craypot.

I have started some thing now.

shrimpy · 04-13-2009, 03:12 AM

Good idea Pup, but like Jim said I don't think it would like wet feet.

After I posted those pictures I thought I'd have a go at a bit of wiring
but the neighbours complained about the noise.

Shrimpy

treebeard55 · 04-13-2009, 10:43 PM

That is a species that defies traditional styles. (In more ways than one.)

One of them attached herself to our house; she's currently sleeping on my daughter's bed. This specimen stays away from my pots, tho: maybe strong mental emanations about catskin doilies have something to do with it.

shrimpy · 10-11-2009, 01:17 AM

Hi Everyone
Here's an update to the Tiger-Striped Felix (thanks for the name Jim)
After posting the last pic's I repotted it into a growing on box since then it has pushed out 3 little suckers.
Just before Xmas I intend to remove them from the main Felix and put them in their own groing on boxes they should make good Xmas presents.

Shrimpy

JLDoggett · 10-11-2009, 02:32 AM

What great sucker growth she produced two sports a black-barked Felix, a Plane Felix and one true-to-cultivar Tiger-Striped Felix, lucky you! Since I am not in NZ, can I be an uncle?

shrimpy · 10-12-2009, 12:50 AM

Sounds good uncle Jim

Shrimpy

04-13-2009, 12:47 AM	#2 (permalink)
JLDoggett Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New Hampshire, USA, Posts: 630	Hmmm a tiger-striped Felix. They usually decide their best styling and can not be herded to conform to a set style. Just remember they do not like wet feet. __________________ "Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these" And I further resolve to click on an ad, each time I visit, to help support the site and to be welcoming to lurking guests when you join! After all, you're already here.

04-13-2009, 01:01 AM	#3 (permalink)
bonsaidad Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Glamorgan Wales Posts: 202	Well i would say that what is in there certainly has "cat-kins" growing on it come spring. Now some call them "Pussy willow", ( paws for a breath ), but i think its some kind of fir tree. Best regards BD Paul __________________ Old Chinese proverb says. Go to bed with itchy bum. Wake up with stinky finger.

04-13-2009, 02:39 AM	#4 (permalink)
Pup Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Perth suburbs Western Australia Posts: 405	I think the best type of pot for these carnivorous varietys is a craypot. I have started some thing now. __________________ G, day I live in western Australia I have been trying for the last 20+ years with some success to grow Bonsai. I am a perpetual learner and an advanced beginner

04-13-2009, 03:12 AM	#5 (permalink)
shrimpy Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Waikato, NZ Posts: 110	Good idea Pup, but like Jim said I don't think it would like wet feet. After I posted those pictures I thought I'd have a go at a bit of wiring but the neighbours complained about the noise. Shrimpy __________________ If a man is alone working on his Bonsai and he speaks and there is no women to hear him. is he still wrong ??? Never ever believe anything, Until it has been officially denied:

04-13-2009, 10:43 PM	#6 (permalink)
treebeard55 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Warsaw IN, USA USDA zone 5b Posts: 510	That is a species that defies traditional styles. (In more ways than one.) One of them attached herself to our house; she's currently sleeping on my daughter's bed. This specimen stays away from my pots, tho: maybe strong mental emanations about catskin doilies have something to do with it. __________________ Treebeard 55 Steve Moore http://hoosierbonsai.blogspot.com The most important bonsai tool is your brain.

10-11-2009, 02:32 AM	#8 (permalink)
JLDoggett Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New Hampshire, USA, Posts: 630	What great sucker growth she produced two sports a black-barked Felix, a Plane Felix and one true-to-cultivar Tiger-Striped Felix, lucky you! Since I am not in NZ, can I be an uncle? __________________ "Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these" And I further resolve to click on an ad, each time I visit, to help support the site and to be welcoming to lurking guests when you join! After all, you're already here.

10-12-2009, 12:50 AM	#9 (permalink)
shrimpy Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Waikato, NZ Posts: 110	Sounds good uncle Jim Shrimpy __________________ If a man is alone working on his Bonsai and he speaks and there is no women to hear him. is he still wrong ??? Never ever believe anything, Until it has been officially denied:

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