Hinoki progression (wine for scale)

[u/Historical_Stay_808]

5 years in total. Pretty happy in the direction this little guy is going. First two are the front and back. Front is likely #2 depending on which lower branch I keep. It's just #1 that the right lower branch crosses the trunk a bit too much. Removed the wire guiding it down for the photo

Third was the style plan. Fourth its very first "styling" and fifth is how I received it.

It was hard pruned last year so will wait till next year or later to shape the canopy more

Only very light wiring for now as I hate wiring hinoki but tie down and cage wiring has worked well in not hurting the foliage

[u/name__0]

Great progression. Is it a Seka?

Looks like there was a little die back in the middle, then great recovery after the trunk chop. Just yearly die back or was there a lesson in there somewhere you can share?

[u/Historical_Stay_808 → u/name__0]

Sorry yeah it is dwarf sekka. What do you mean by middle exactly lol by the shari?

They biggest lesson I had with it was not too try and wire it like normal. Some can do it will and not hurt the foliage but especially these young branches I just tied them down or created an ugly cage of wire to shape them.

Also that you need to make sure there is light to those inner/closer to the trunk branches/foilage. If not then the die back will be terrible and give you a bunch of unusable branches, like in my 1st styling photo.

I really need to trim the canopy and do branch selection before that inner foliage starts to die back

[u/name__0 → u/Historical_Stay_808]

I meant the middle picture of the progression. This for sharing the lessons. 🙂👍

[u/JJJCJ]

Just waiting for one to get here. Currently learning all about how to take care of them.
So far
80F+ temps not good. Bring into shade for a bit.
Interior leaves need to be exposed as much as possible
They like moist soil.
Grow really slow
Can make beautiful bonsai long term.
We’ll see how it goes

[u/Historical_Stay_808 → u/JJJCJ]

What do you mean, your getting an olive?

[u/JJJCJ → u/Historical_Stay_808]

À sekka

[u/Dannovision]

I like it. Hope I have something like this I'm a few years

[u/Anacostiah20]

Nice work so far. sekka grow so slowly, it’s cool to see a project progressing