# Collected sweet plum evolution

**URL:** <https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/collected-sweet-plum-evolution/5495>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [April 2, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/collected-sweet-plum-evolution/5495 "2020-04-02T20:52:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hierophantic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/hierophantic/32/3338_2.png) [@hierophantic](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/hierophantic)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/collected-sweet-plum-evolution/5495/1 "2020-04-02T20:52:42Z")

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Hi folks! I figured y’all might be interested in a running log of my work with a collected sweet plum (Sageretia theezans). I’m always open to design and work suggestions, so if you’ve got thoughts, please let me know!

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**Author:** ![hierophantic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/hierophantic/32/3338_2.png) [@hierophantic](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/hierophantic)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/collected-sweet-plum-evolution/5495/2 "2020-04-02T20:57:16Z")

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**Acquired 4/2/2020**

The folks at Underhill Bonsai in Folsom, LA dug this for me about a month ago. It was a replacement for a pomegranate yamadori I’d been angling but hadn’t got ahold of. I love elegant flowering/fruiting deciduous and weird, otherworldly anything, so this was a perfect piece of material for me!

 ![2020-04-02](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/3/31114981218b4bc6a562ad1bfbf8b455cc1b593d.jpeg)

 ![2020-04-02 (2)](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/8/8652d38ce47492434d54402a99d0fd355d5f8eaa.jpeg)

Check out those legs!

 ![2020-04-02 (1)](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/5/5caa87b19f4cb610372baa6a68f6b6144caf15d5.jpeg)

I agreed to buy based on photos (i.e. I hadn’t seen the thing until pickup). I knew what it looked like; I did _not_ know how large it was.

(In absence of the traditional soda can, please accept this smallish bonsai artist head for scale.)

 ![2020-04-02 (3)](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/3/3d477e7a030f5bea73fd15819398fbb793177f33.jpeg)

I have no idea what I’m going to do with this tree. Right now, I’m happy to let it recover from the dig.

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**Author:** ![NedInTaiwan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/nedintaiwan/32/29301_2.png) [@NedInTaiwan](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/NedInTaiwan)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/collected-sweet-plum-evolution/5495/3 "2023-04-21T13:45:06Z")

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Oh man! Sweet (plum) tree! I found this post cause I got one myself recently and searched it up to see if anyone had some good info on them. I’ve noticed a ton of variety in how they mature and take on age.

I’m at a bit of a loss for styling because I don’t have a lot of branches to work with. It seems you might have the opposite problem with so many options from the top there!

I can’t wait to see it flower! Has yours yet?

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/3X/8/e/8eb78269100c8dea97cc695e3c4c12a9abaf1f0d.jpeg)  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/3X/7/d/7d8c7d4afa8f141499f1af3c265051c7110372c9.jpeg)