{"id":1537,"date":"2018-11-11T21:39:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T10:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2018-12-07T20:37:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T09:37:08","slug":"callistemon-little-john-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Callistemon &#8216;Little John&#8217; update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post I showed early shots of work done on a collected Callistemon at Canberra Bonsai show.<!--more-->Since then I have had the carving tools and some wire out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1538\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200258-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200258-295x300.jpg 295w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200258-768x782.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200258-1006x1024.jpg 1006w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200258.jpg 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1540\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200260-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200260-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200260-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200260-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200260-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200260.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoping the jin and shari at the top of the vertical trunk will help to give the impression of taper to an otherwise thick trunk.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1541\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200261-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200261-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200261-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200261-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200261-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200261.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many of the existing small shoots have been wired to enhance the natural movement of the 2 trunks. Quite a few of these will no doubt be removed as they mature and thicken up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1542\" src=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200263-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200263-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200263-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200263-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200263-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/P1200263.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now we can give this one a rest to regain strength and put on a little more growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous post I showed early shots of work done on a collected Callistemon at Canberra Bonsai show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie-natives-as-bonsai","category-styling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1554,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shibuibonsai.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}