# Juniper progress

**URL:** <https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/juniper-progress/2007>\
**Category:** Design\
**Created:** [November 12, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/juniper-progress/2007 "2018-11-12T02:28:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![idowatsu](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.bonsaimirai.com/idowatsu/32/213_2.png) [@idowatsu](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/idowatsu)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/juniper-progress/2007/1 "2018-11-12T02:28:05Z")

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My first purchase at GSBF auction was a gangly juniper, (probably common). This was about 5 years ago. I was working on some of the deadwood a few years ago at our Humboldt Bonsai society show.

 ![20160430_151131sm](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/4/462ef4a8b00d33698ab49b8c936ba1fcb395130f.jpeg)  
I let it grow for a few years and then did some foliage thinning last winter. ![IMG_0067sm](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/d/d221a9bb3087ecf0433e05969892e50bdfad165c.jpeg)

I decided to see if I could put a first styling on it, so for the last week I have been working on this tree. It was 75 degrees on the porch all week, we finally started sunny summer in late September. This is what I got. It has a cool hollow trunk. The thing is only 2/3 of the bulk it was before I put the guy wires on it. My hands are really sore from all the prickly juvenile growth.

 ![IMG_1075sm](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/e/eb3ecbc461944f1a2206d172d79821f0f9664b85.jpeg) ![IMG_1108sm](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/b/b8032f60436ef1c15ae67d40e35bca048dac1b96.jpeg) ![IMG_1110sm](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/bonsaimirai/original/2X/f/fce3b37c7991d0ef65c3f9a88fc50e63eb8b6087.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![WLKeugene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a88e57/32.png) [@WLKeugene](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/u/WLKeugene)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://forum.bonsaimirai.com/t/juniper-progress/2007/2 "2018-11-14T12:26:47Z")

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Much improved:wink:.