Formal upright Bonsai style (Chokkan)

The formal upright style is really a quite frequent type of Bonsai. This bonsai style frequently happens in nature, specifically when the tree is exposed to a great deal of light and will not face the issue of competing trees. For this style, tapering in the upright-growing trunk should be clearly visible. The trunk need to for that reason be thicker in the bottom and need to develop increasingly thinner together with the height. At about 1/4 from the total length on the trunk, branching ought to start. The leading on the tree ought to be formed by a single branch; the trunk ought to not span the complete height from the tree.

Benefits of Chokkan

Benefits of Chokkan style are an extremely attractive tree towards the viewer. If completed appropriately formal upright style bonsai give us a really organic feeling, a feeling of becoming within a forest surrounded by big trees which haven't had hard situations to develop in. Consider of huge pines within a valley or foothills, areas exactly where they've the capability to develop straight for the sun competing only inside itself for light. This can be what we see every single year throughout Christmas time, extremely good cone shaped trees with taper from bottom to best. A really comfy inviting image, 1 we're extremely utilized to seeing right here inside the Usa. When deciding on a formal upright bonsai, you'll wish to uncover a tree that enables for visibility of at the least one particular third to one particular quarter in the trunk, view from the taper would be the concentrate.

Disadvantages of Chokkan

Disadvantages of this style would be the capacity to seek out materiel or develop material that fits this criterion straight with out becoming place into yet another category. It is difficult to develop a completely tapering trunk with best branch placement and quite tough (if feasible) to discover 1 appropriate for bonsai in nature. It requires a great deal of time and patience to attain an appealing Chokkan style tree.

Appropriate Species

Numerous distinct species and trees make excellent formal upright bonsai plants. Any tree you'd usually consider of as a vacation tree or perhaps a tree that normally grows within a symmetrical pattern or style tends to make for any wonderful formal upright style tree. Most trees which are pruned properly and kept healthful, will conform to formal upright bonsai. Some examples of very good trees to work with when making an Chokkan bonsai are;

Maple (Acer sp.)
Pines (Pinus sp.)
Spruces (Picea sp.)
Junipers (Juniperus sp.)

Unsuitable Species

Unsuitable Above all, fruiting or naturally informal trees aren't appropriate for formal upright. Even though you'll be able to produce a formal upright tree with these they may be a lot more suited to Broom or informal types:

Cherry (Prunus sp.)
Crab Apple (Malus sp.)
Pyracantha (Pyracantha sp.)

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List of Bonsai Style

1. Broom style Bonsai (Hokidachi)
2. Formal upright Bonsai style (Chokkan)
3. Informal upright Bonsai style (Moyogi)
4. Slanting Bonsai style (Shakan)
5. Cascade Bonsai style (Kengai)
6. Semi cascade Bonsai style (Han-kengai)
7. Literati Bonsai style (Bunjingi)
8. Windswept Bonsai style (Fukinagashi)
9. Double trunk style Bonsai (Sokan)
10. Multitrunk Bonsai style (Kabudachi)
11. Forest Bonsai style (Yose-ue)
12. Growing on a rock Bonsai style (Seki-joju)
13. Growing in a rock Bonsai style (Ishisuki)
14. Raft Bonsai style (Ikadabuki)
15. Shari Bonsai style (Sharimiki)