Patricia O'Connor, The Bonsai Balcony: We put that first movement into our Black Pine from seed.
Last Summer you and I germinated a few dozen Japanese Black Pine Seeds. Now we get to wire them and put that first trunk movement into them. Where they break the surface we need to make sure they move dramatically. Pine Bonsai are made not grown and this is done by taking the right steps at the right time in the right order. This is step one on their path.