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198 Creating your own bonsai

Shaping the branches

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Apply heavy structural wire to the main When manipulating branches, always Use guy wires to help bend and hold
branches, depending on how much they use both hands to make severe bends, heavy branches. Here, the branch is bent
need to be bent, according to your plan. and consider—and support—weak spots with slow, controlled pressure, while the
Pines are very flexible—even old, thick such as branch junctions and deadwood pliers twist the guy wires taut around
branches can be bent with double wires. features where damage may occur. a jin without pulling the branch down.

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Stand back and assess the tree. With Remove unnecessary branches where Wire secondary and tertiary branches
the main branches in position, it is another branch can do the same job. after pruning. In this case almost every
time to decide what you want to do Try to compact longer branches, cutting branch was wired. Thin out tertiary
with the secondary branches, and plan back where possible. Remember that branches and old foliage as you wire, in
your pruning and wiring accordingly. branches can be lowered to fill in space. order to achieve a cleaner image.