This plant is a Punica granatum, also known as the Pomegranate.
Right now it is fall, so you can actually see the fruits hanging in the tree.
Here, and here as well.
What we will be doing today is some mild styling.
There’s a few branches that need to be pruned,
for example branches like these - very long and grown into the tree.
And we’ll do a bit of wiring as well.
The tree is about 7 to 8 years old.
This is what the tree looked like, before it was styled.
After pruning and wiring, this was the result.
For styling this Pomegranate, we'll use a twig shear, a concave cutter and a wire cutter.
First we'll prune these long, straight branches that grow towards the center of the tree.
With most multitrunk Bonsai designs, you'll notice the branches grow
outwards, towards the light - which looks more natural and realistic.
The apex of the tree is very dense, and therefore needs to be thinned out.
By pruning the apex, we are also redirecting growth towards the other parts of the tree.
Next we'll wire a few branches, so that we can bend them downwards a bit,
giving the tree an older appearance.
We will also use the wire to add some movement to the mostly straight branches.
Alright so we have pruned and wired this tree.
The wiring was mostly on this side, to fill up some empty spaces and also to give a
little movement to the branches, because they were very straight.
And most of the pruning was done at the apex of the tree, which was very full.
Now it is a bit more balanced.
This is the front of the tree and that’s it for now.
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