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    Repotted Jade

    I may be wrong, but having owned both I feel almost certain @Devilrocker's plant is some variety of c. ovata. The leaf shape and growth habit, among other things, are different. There are cultivars of c. ovata that have quite compact growth. Everything else you've said strikes me as right. I...
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    Wallace Cork Bark Elm

    My big cork bark elm killed off a bottom branch this year. The branch was a bit weak anyway, so it wasn't entirely unexpected, but it was disappointing. Anyway, I have heard that these trees in particular will pull resources from lower branches if you let the top get too strong. That is...
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    Red Maple Cuttings in progress

    What a great and obscure phrase. I never knew.
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    Japanese Maple Styling Advice

    This is where I would go. Remove everything else, cut just above the first node, and let the upper bud extend. If you do it after the tree has leafed out and hardened off (June-ish?) then the growth from that bud will be restrained. Later in the year, you wire some movement into that and then...
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    Red Maple Cuttings in progress

    The root spread on the curvy one is to die for!
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    Advice on pruning my ficus

    It will take a lot of energy to grow a new shoot like that, and to close what will be a good sized wound after you chop. My 2 cents is that it would be better to do that growing/healing with a full tank of gas, after having had the chance to grow it out for a while.
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    Brazilian Rain Tree Advice

    My observations have not been very scientific - I combined a couple of experiences that could have been coincidental with anecdotes that I read online, including here. One thought, though, if you are using a weak dilution of the MG (something like 1/2 or 1/4 of recommended for containers), that...
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    Advice on pruning my ficus

    Hello, Figgie! First off, congratulations on saving the tree! Black scale can be mean AF and I hate them with a passion. No, do not prune this tree. That thing should get to grow into a big bushy shrub before you touch it with pruners. Trim it now and it will probably struggle along for...
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    Brazilian Rain Tree Advice

    Not sure how other people are fertilizing BRT, but I skip my BRT any time I am fertilizing my bonsai with chemical fertilizer. Once, after I hit it with chemical fert, it had a hissy fit and dropped all its leaves. But I had to do it again before I caught on (slow learner). Ever since then, the...
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    Collected Hawthorn History

    Intriguing! Are the screens shorter than the frame, so you can "shake" them?
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    Large chunky european hornbeam stump styling

    You could be right and it might be too late, but I have a Korean hornbeam with that same problem that I waited to address, and still had some luck with flat-cutting under the root and covering with soil.
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    New from Salt Lake

    C&T, years ago, used to have a relationship with the club due to a couple of past club presidents working there. Those individuals did a lot of work to establish the bonsai department, but after they left the quality went down and the prices went up. The relationship with the club also stalled...
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    New from Salt Lake

    Hello! I suggest looking for nurseries near you and checking them out. You would do yourself a favor by reading up first on how to select good nursery stock. Early on, I wasted a lot of time and money on truly terrible material. Some ideas for nurseries to look at would be Glover Nursery and...
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    Hornbeam opinion

    I am not going to defend or condemn the response, but offer my thought on the source of the disagreement. I believe that, when @johnl445 mentioned the BIN price, @Gabler understood the thrust of the question to be whether it would be a good buy. But the intent behind stating the price, I think...
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    Ficus Philippinensis March 2019-

    This is turning out very nice. I hope it responds by sprouting by that branch that died.
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