I just realised it’s been over 2 years that I updated my Zelkova from seed 2018 project.

Long story short. 11 seeds germinated and made it to the end of year 1. After the winter 3 of them didn’t survive. At least that’s what I thought. I kep the dead seedlings anyway just in case. And what do you know… a few weeks after the living ones had their leaves 1 of the “dead” ones started to make buds on it’s lower trunk. That one is still alive now. The other 2 are really dead.

So, here’s what we have now. All of them are at least 30cm/12″ tall. One of them even went up 30″.

The survivers after 2 years.

I set my goals to make shohin broomstyle zelkova bonsai from them so the ones in the picture below look real promising.

2 seedlings that could be good shohin broomstyle zelkova bonsai.

I did some pruning on all of them and wiring on some to set the branches so from now we can do the clip & grow technique to refine them.

Some needed wiring…

… while others didn’t.

This is the one that came back from the dead. All new branches are really low so not sure what I’m going to do with this one. Maybe make a bush broom, if that’s a word…

I kept the biggest one to grow out in the field.

In a few months I’ll repot the ones that that I want to turn into shohin bonsai. Let’s hope I don’t forget to update this blog then 🙂