Redwood Development - Sam Tan

ABAS presented a YT presentation by Sam Tan, of San Francisco. Presenting his development of Redwood Bonsai. See link below.

All credit goes to Sam Tan and ABAS for sharing this knowledge. I summarized here for my reference only.

ABAS - Sam Tan

Styles for Burl

  • Sam prefers all branches to angle down, but Shohin size may be challenged.

  • Final example is traditional primary branches and pads

Pinching

Development plan

Examples

Take-aways

  • Don’t overwork foliage too early, let them grow out fully and then prune and wire.

  • Select primary branching and reduce other shoots and buds to focus energy on the primary branches.

  • He repots them into a smaller bonsai pot early (if the base size is met), to slow down growth. They grow fast so this helps even earlier in development of branches.

Michael Wei