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It is waaaay too tall. It needs about a third more reduced .The top third is monotonous. I'd do that next spring.

It’s Mold from your organic fert. Won t hurt the tree

https://anpsa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/bonsai27.pdf

Outside 24/7/365. You wil have to find a place outside to overwinter the tree this winter. It needs a winter dormancy that cannot be provided indoors

This being kept inside?

I think you may be onto something with this being an indica and not a satsuki. Im not an azalea person (but I have purchased and priced a few) The size alone for an imported satsuki would make this plant worth about $1000 or more here. Giving such a valuable plant away would be difficult for me...

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Ok, but I'm not really completely wrong. Many people can and will provide bad info online. "Experts" can be a dime a dozen online. It is very hard to ID who knows what they're talking about and who doesn't. Best solution for anyone in this situation is to go back to the source and start from...

Can't help if you don't post your location.

Latest photos of my oak. It’s been convalescing at a nursery for the last year or so. One of its back branches began to weaken after the move into the larger pot. I wanted to get ahead of whatever going on and decided to get some help for it. It has responded very well

You cannot determine the variety of satsuki from a picture. Over 500 varieties of satsuke. Some are extremely similar. Tags or records from the (reputable) original grower are needed. Once those have gone there is really no way to tell. You wil get “it looks like” ids from all over the place...

The best way to get these to to heal is to accelerate the callus tissue already formed. That can be done by planting in the ground allowing it to grow unrestricted for a few years. That means you’ll lose a lot of the finer twigging and branching. An alternative would be to graft sapling elms...

FWW. Here are two ficus bonsai that about 50 years old. Begun in the 1970s in Hawaii and Fla. by bonsai growers ther and donated to the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum. They are extremely healthy and vigorous trees. I volunteer ther at the collection so I see them a lot they’re large two to...

I don’t think I’m brutal. I just try to tell the truth. Posters like this one who don’t understand bonsai sometimes post mediocre to awful bonsai that they think are awesome. It has been happening for as long as there have been internet bonsai forums (and I’ve been on bonsai forums since the...

Then at in earth did you post this IN A BONSAI FORUM?🙄 Your obvious annoyance at “artificial” looking fetish trees” shows you don’t really understand what you’re talking about and are pleased with your ignorance. FWIW, Bonsai is a way of cultivating trees. Part of that cultivation is the...

Again this is likely from a seed or cutting that those botanists planted or struck. I would be amazed if this tree were over 30 years old. The roots are in desperate need of pruning. The tap root should have been removed a very long time ago.

Found this pic I took of Vaughn Bantings red maple forest about five years ago.

The photo is of Vaughn Banting’s Red Maple (drummondii) forest that is in the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum in Washington DC This is a fall photo:

As said getting believable movement in deciduous trunks and branching is done mostly through hard pruning, re-growth and more hard pruning. Wire doesn’t work well for deciduous trees. Wired bends tend to be smooth and even as deciduous species’ wood tends to be brittle and not flexible enough...

There is obvious value to people who may have worked with him or knew him though. Thats the point. It’s a tree that appeals to a particular audience that is in Mirai’s physical neighborhood. If you’re asking who the f he is then you’re probably not that audience

The point is that the tree has LOCAL HISTORY with notable bonsai figures. The same kind of attachment comes with more well known figures. If someone said a tree was developed by John Naka, Yujji Yoshimura, Nick Lenz, Vaughn Banting you would not blink an eye paying extra. Just because this...

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Also consider reducing the amount of afternoon sun. Japanese maples are understory trees in nature. In direct sun in shallow container that heats up sunburn and root death can happen

But was it developed in the PNW? I don’t vouch for any historical claims. Got a problem tell Mirai. Fwiw doesn’t really make much difference as apparently this tree was developed by a person with a storied bonsai history in the region. Thats the value. If you want to dispute that again tell...

Fwiw I got this collected winged elm at the Potomac Bonsai Association show and sale for less than what you’re planning to spend. You can probably find similar locally at the show.