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Hi, here are a few pics of my bonsai, it's a serrissa or something like that, i forget, we bought it when we moved into our new place about 19 months now, when we got it it was a nice shape and all the leaves were nice and tight and compact, but it gradually grew more spindley, so i let the shoots grow a bit longer trying to bush it out more but it got so thin you could see right through it, so in the end i just pruned all the green off it completely right back to the main branches, that was last winter, then this spring it started shooting again and this is how it is now, which isn't bad considering i thought it was as good as dead last year. Anyway, it looks to be healthy enough, i carpeted around the bottom myself with some moss i lifted from the path outside, it has took reaaly well, then i re-potted it into a bigger pot and you can still see the smaller rectangle of moss which is how big the old pot was, then i gravled round the edge, but as you can see in the pics, the moss is slowly creeping through the gravle and knitting it together, which i quite like. What i want to know is what should i be doing with it, let it grow or trim it down tighter or what, it is still a little thin, but if i let the shoots grow to try and bush it out a bit more it gets thinner. 
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Hi and welcome.
You don't say exactly where you are or where you keep the tree. What medium did you use for re-potting?
Your best course of action is to contact and join a bonsai club or society where practical help on the spot will be available. Your Serissa is quite difficult for anyone to be able to give guidance on pruning from seeing a photograph, good though they may be.
Basic care would be to keep trimming new shoots back to two pairs of leaves after growing about five pairs. Keep the planting medium moist during the growing season and comparatively dry during Winter. Feed fortnightly until around the middle of September. Keep outside when temperatures are 12C (54F) or over and give the best of light and humidity at other times. A daily mist spray will be appreciated apart from when it is in flower when damp would discolour the petals. =Don.
My name is Don and I'm a bonsaiholic.
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