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| Hi all, i just thought i would share some pictures with you of this acer, which was bound for the tip. There has been a reasonable amount of new growth since i acquired it & its rather attractive now (in my eyes) but I'm led to believe that you dont create jins & shars on deciduous trees, if so what would you do with the dead stump. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. 
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| If the stump is removed to this angle Roy, it will give a strong taper to the main trunk. Judicious use of a tinted sealant will camouflage the wound until the bark rolls back to cover it. This will take a year or two but the tree will look okay while you wait. 
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Many thanks Don, the stump goes then. I will keep updating the progress of this tree.
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| Hi Don, here it is without the stump. 
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Looking right Roy. Let it grow now with a fortnightly feed. Final styling can come later.
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Heh heh, what a difference a bit of advice from an expert makes  Well done Roy and thank you Don, we can ALL learn from these tips
Kath
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| Not that it matters much now and I don't believe that it would have worked on this tree but the more I look around the more I have come to believe that deadwood is perfectly fine on non-coniferous trees. Fruit trees, oak, maple, and many others look perfectly normal with jins and sharis. A huge improvement in the flow of the trunk here. It's gonna be a real looker.
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| Interesting point here as my wife & I were at the John Hanby Bonsai center a couple of weeks ago & I put the question to one of the guys working on the trees about jins etc on deciduous trees. I referred to some deciduous trees at the John Hanby center that had jins etc, he said rules are there to be broken. However i have since removed some jins from my Japanese Grey Bark Helm & an Oak tree & to me, they look better without them.
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