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Follows Northen Hemisphere Minimum is 6 weeks cold. 3rd week of January. Placed in the fridge in the the late evening. Temperature in the evening is around 22 deg.c Fridge is turned on when trees have been entered, Set for 10-8 deg. c Trees are well soaked and allowed to drip dry. Trees are...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RbQyz-5Q1E using an old explorer programme, google wants me to upgrade - hence the no image. Especially for @Carol 83 Enjoy Anthony

Eldest found as 3 pinnate leaves around 1980. Soil mix for all tamarinds in the yard 35 ----5 mm silica based quartz 35-----5 mm crushed red earthenware brick 30 aged compost [ also testing 3 mm ] 2 Cats fought and broke top and back branches - repairing If it were from the north of the...

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Here is the victim - A guava type soil is - 5 mm silica based gravel 5 mm porous crushed fired earthenware building block Aged compost [ sifted ] proportion - 35 /35 / 30 aged compost position is full sun foliage lightened and pot removed close up an average of 1 inch [ 2.5 cm ] is...

Hello All, local willow ficus [ Ficus priminoides ] @Forsoothe! , soil is 90 % 5 mm silica based gravel 10% aged compost placement - full sun here is how we find them, Simple lean, this one loved throwing out aerial roots. age unsure - 8 ? Pot is 1 inch deep Possible broom ? testing...

@sorce , if you could find a rapid way to manufacture 5 mm balls of fired earth. Presently the ficus in the balls is out performing the ones growing in other inorganic mediums. A simple idea for potters. Good Day Anthony

3 minutes of fame - enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdemFfbS5H0&list=RDkdemFfbS5H0&index=1

The most extreme example - note depth of pot and soil mix is 9 parts inorganic to 1 part organic. Placement - full sun Ficus p. - side branch to 3 feet [ 92 cm ] Gave this in x months Whereas this did nothing but thicken the branch. The Fustic [ Flaucortia [ requires a top branch to...

Started with Tai Chi for health when I was about 21, combat form at 25. Guess what my Chinese instructor nicknamed me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRfuAukYTKg&list=RDEgqUJOudrcM&index=2 Cool Song. K made me a ring to match. Good Day Anthony

Well we will probably find 15 or more natives to Bonsai, but the thinning out has begun. Lucked out and got two home grown Cultivars - the Fustic [ nickname - Tropical Zelkova ] and a tamarind, that has naturally smaller leaves and more branchlets. To further the work on the Fustic, 5 more...

Please don'i get angry with me but just wanted to share . [ I am Roman Catholic and my mum was the Pope's sister ] Any Indians [ India [ on the list - !!!!! Happy Divali !!!!!!!!!!! Pax Anthony

So six of us got together yesterday, we are all in the late 50's category. Started Bonsai from 17 to 24 years of age. As old friends we get together to chat or help with heavy repottings. Some have younger hands that also come to help. New friends. When the Bonsai Society of Trinidad started...

So I live on a Tropical island [ Trinidad W.I. ] and all of our native trees are somehow seeds of Sub Tropicals and Warm Temperates [ zone 8/7 ] our only clue to a Tropical is the introduced coconut tree. Our seagrape hangs out in coastal Florida, as does the buttonwood. All of those so-called...

@Penjing-Darren , Bolero has already seen this. Grow and Clip - Directional Pruning - no wires used. From a small cutting Soil is 1/3 all - 5 mm silica based gravel, 5 mm crushed red building brick - earthenware - holds water aged compost Placement - full sun Good Day Anthony please note...

Just a simple update. Also to show how a tree loses a bend and why we don't try to wire young J.B.pine seedlings. Soil is 1/3 all - 5 mm silica based gravel. 5 mm crushed red earthenware brick and aged compost. Position - full sun. Good Day Anthony ladder tree, no back branch. From seed...

Okay, so we tried to go for a 3 inch [ 8 cm trunk ] and in the growing bed, damaged the tree. Lost branches. Back to rebuilding. Chlorophora tintorua - Fustic. zone 9 - As far away as Argentina. Successful acclimating - now a lumber tree in Trinidad. Wood is hard, yellow and toxic. Was used...

Folks, some time in the early 2000's on IBC a warning about people harvesting experience for books [ or sales or other ] was made by Ms. Iris Cohen. Feels like that is being done presently. In response to the above we took to staggering x years, on our research. So if something was...

Here she is on BBC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEGevD5jd64 enjoy. Anthony

Found this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTybOQsrGMI [1] Jack Warner's sons were stripped of millions by the US. The US got the money, doubt they have any interest in him any more. [2] Our so called - African descendants are less than 30 % Negro in mix. Mostly European, Asian . Brown skin...

Title says it all. Sleep well Mr. Saburo Kato. Much respect. Worked on the Chlorophora t. today. Best wishes Anthony

Well, it's beginning to rain, enough to wet the dry clay, but not run off. If all goes as it should, 1 day rain, 3 days sun, later 3 days rain, 1 day sun, then rain as it wishes. Living on a hill side, no fear of floods or mosquitoes. Plus, the breezes stay, so no real fear of high humid days...

If I might tease you folk - Well we are at the height of the Dry Season [ if any rain, less than 1 inch for the month ] Hottest months of April and May - 90 to 93 deg.F for 30 to 15 minutes after 12.00 lunch time. Humidity down to as low as 45% and our highest is 80% with full rain. Strong to...

Guys, @Wires_Guy_wires , @Gustavo Martins , And anyone else. Weather since November 4th has been around 65 to 69 deg.F [ 18.3 to 20.6 deg.C ] and is continuing today. From 10 p.m until around 8 a.m. The Chinese Serissa, the Gmelina and Fukien tea, in full sun are dying. Those in the shade...

Found out in a Chinese book, recently, this not only a zone 7 vining shrub in China, it is also deciduous. So this year, tried something new. Repot is next year. Soil is, 5 mm silica based gravel 5 mm crushed red brick aged compost all at 1/3. This a thirsty vining shrub. Placement -...