Jeju cypress cliff-style bonsai completed in two years, truly a case of an ugly duckling turning into a swan

Making bonsai takes time, and a good shape needs time to be polished. Today we are sharing a pot of Jeju cypress bonsai that has transformed over two years, its shape getting more and more beautiful. You could say this pot of Jeju cypress bonsai underwent a qualitative change over two years.

Look at the picture above. This is the Jeju cypress bonsai I got two years ago. It looks just like a tree, with no shape to speak of. But I really like Jeju cypress, because it can be shaped into a cliff-style form, giving a sense of vigorous vitality.

After getting it, I did a slight haircut pruning and shaping, then gave this pot of Jeju cypress bonsai the most basic leaning support according to the cliff-style form. What matters is the cliff shape of the branches. Although it was not yet shaped, after pruning and haircutting the basic later cliff-style form had already emerged.

After it adapted to the environment, I repotted it for cultivation. At this time the main focus was cultivating the density of the branches and the number of needles, because only when the quantity builds up is there room for modification. Although the cliff-style Jeju cypress bonsai shape had roughly emerged, it would still need many rounds of polishing and trimming later to reach the final work.

After nurturing the branches, I had new ideas about this pot of Jeju cypress bonsai, so I wired the lowest branch again to create a curved shape. It could not keep drooping forever, so first I trained it to be level, and we will see what feeling can be created later.

I really like this pot, but later I felt it still needed to be changed, preferably to a tall-footed flower pot. After several rounds of wiring, pruning and haircutting, the number of branches and needles on the Jeju cypress bonsai had built up, and the wiring and bending were almost in place, but it could still be bent into shape.

Making bonsai means constantly fiddling with it, so I wired and bent the bottom branch again to change its position. You can see the Jeju cypress bonsai has a shari branch. For now, let us not remove the shari, just keep cultivating it and see.

Changing the viewing position, you can see the cliff-style effect of the Jeju cypress bonsai has emerged, vigorous, curved and powerful, with branches so green they seem to drip, very beautiful. At this point only a little over a year had passed, and the cliff-style Jeju cypress bonsai shaping was still continuing.

I really disliked the bending position of the bottom branch and planned to change the bending angle, so I was preparing small adjustments again, ready to readjust the top and lower parts. This adjustment was mainly to control the density of the branches.

After two years of bending, shaping and wiring, the ultimate shape of the Jeju cypress was out. You can see that this pot of Jeju cypress bonsai, from when I got it to today two years later, has gone directly from an ugly duckling to a swan. The branches are vigorous and powerful, the bending effect is very good, and the density of the haircut needles is very good. I really like it.

This pot of Jeju cypress bonsai's two-year transformation, with the cliff-style bonsai shaped and completed, after seeing the result you cannot help but be impressed. So making bonsai really requires enduring the polish of time, as well as constantly haircutting and adjusting the bonsai, slowly making corrections by hand. Do you like the transformation of this pot of Jeju cypress bonsai?