Dear all,
I have recently purchased a bonsai tree which I have called KROA.
I am trying to train it into a shape that looks like a polar bear and it’s sort of coming together a bit but now it’s doing too well.
I have had it for about 3.5 months.
I use bonsai feed but can anyone tell me if wires are good and work as it’s fiddly and I don’t want to waste my time if it’s futile!!
Thanks for any help much appreciated!!
Kieran
I could give you a million links but I think you know how to Google as much as I do…
I like real person advice not trawling through google when I can’t see the polar bears for the snow I’m afraid!!!
But thought appreciated.
K
Yes of coarse wires are good for getting branches to grow in the direction you want them. It’s just a matter of using the right grade of wire; thicker for the trunk, thinner for the more delicate branches.
For the trunk you’d anchor the wire in the soil at the foot of the tree; for the branches use the trunk for anchor.
Only leave the wire on for about 4 months but inspect it each month. If you see the wire starting to cut into the wood take it off. It’ll take a season or two for scaring to grow out.
I was into bonsai before the kids came along, a few died from neglect so I gave the rest away 
I’m more into my house plants these day, and the garden of course 
Wow - sounds like a good project!! May keep me from late night hypertensive rants!
Thank you!!
Ok I’ve got this to try and tame the outer bits and have printed off a large print wire guide or something on the lines you said!! Don’t want to start messing with KROA’s trunk quite yet!!
KROA will become KROA Polar Bear (KROA Polars) soon - well couple of years 
x
What ya got growing?!!?
Actually at the moment I’m playing around with hydroponics, growing plants in water in clear glass vases. I’ve got mint, trailing ivy, Gynura aurantiaca which is a purple velvet trailing plant and an Inchplant (other name Spiderwort) another trailing plant 
In fact, that last one was just a broken off piece I found on the floor in a garden centre…the poor baby needed to me to nurse it back to health, how could I just turn my back on it in it’s hour of need
That’s actually a good idea!! No hassle - Maybe I’ll get JP a kit so he can try, do it wrong and then I’ll take over smugly and do it right
My confused brain cell misread the 1st line of that at first…
‘A few kids died so she gave the rest away.’
I have always had a somewhat slanted view on life - the stroke seems to have accentuated that somewhat - but the up-side of that is that my post-stroke comments make my wife smile 
@IanW
I know what you mean 
I believe it’s called neurodiversity.
It’s actually more common than being a neurotypical just We’re all diverse in different ways whereas the typical are all typical in the same way
Have you seen the eats shoots and leaves book?
Somewhere on the sprawling mess that is the internet there is a collection of the sort of confusion grammar and punctuation causes and indeed website addresses that by adding words together convey something other than was intended
I meant to reply to it post of yours as well. I may or may not have done it! I’ll have to have a look back today if I could remember what I was trying to remember I might be okay But that can’t remember
Ciao
Simon
I do the same myself post stroke, having to reread because my brains has misread or misinterpreted.
It can actually be quite a challenge on here to read posts because of the varied challenges we have to overcome in order to communicate. But its good if you can get a laugh out of it in the process
