germination techniques

Hi there! About a month ago I came back from a visit to Denver with 5 pine cones from a Colorado Blue Spruce in my family's yard. I understand there's roughly a 1/1000 chance of getting the characteristic blue coloring of the parent tree, but I'm still interested in trying to stratify and...

Hey everybody! My grandmother had a pomegranate tree (unsure of what cultivar) that dropped a lot of fruit this season. She suddenly passed a week ago and I decided to collect a pomegranate that had dropped 3 months ago so that I could make some bonsais to remember her. Last night I processed...

Please feel free to point me to another thread if it exists. I tried searching but couldn’t find it. Against most internet advice- I’m starting my bonsai journey trying to germinate seeds and grow my own trees. I love BRTs and have bought some seeds online. First few orders were through an...

As I began learning more about bonsai, I stumbled across a concept you guys are all very familiar with, but was new to me: Air-Pruning. I learned about it while researching a local tree nursery that uses "The Rootmaker System" by reading the literature on their website. Pictured below is an...

Hopefully these will help others for next year: Seeds of Woody Plants in the United States click link then scroll down; beside the pdf listing, right click and "save link as" to download the pdf format of the book. https://archive.org/details/seedsofwoodyplan00fore/mode/2up The Woody Plant...