mame

Hey everyone. My name is Chris, and I've been creating Bonsai for about 20 years now, but this year is the first year I have decided that I am going to attempt to start working with Mame Bonsai. And, I am doing this with trees that I am growing from seed. I recently purchased Bristlecone Pine...

Hey everyone. My name is Chris, from Starrucca, PA. Recently I purchased a collection of seeds to start a bunch of seeds to eventually turn into Bonsai. I've been doing this for many years, and it is my favorite thing to do, because you get to watch the entire process, and be involved with the...

The city of Columbus, Ohio, has started fighting back against the rapid takeover of Amur Honeysuckle. A vacant lot near my home was bulldozed two or three years ago so I decided to go looking for survivors the other day and found this little guy. Not much bigger in diameter than a quarter, and...

Acquired from nursery late winter 2023 (August). About 60cm tall. 1.5cm in diameter. As buds opened, i cut it back to some good bones, severed a single coiling taproot up to the base, trimmed to balance some longer fine roots and potted in September 2023. Added some moss, expecting it to dry...

This oak is very weird, I germinate a lot of acorns, and most of them sprout by april, this guy sprouted in may, he really took his time. When he germinated I pulled him out and saw no taproot, there were fine roots coming out of both ends of the acorn, haven't really seen anything like that...

Has a large (for a shito) root ball. Will try to keep this small as long as possible.

Hey, so for a couple of years I’ve done little bits of work here and there on this juniper whip. Now, I wouldn’t class myself as a completely green beginner but I am about to ask a beginner question. How do I get this foliage to tighten up?? I get that it isn’t a shimpaku but sargentii is still...

Hey all just wanted to share some of my 3d printed pots and pre bonsai..also my serissa is flowering so had to add that lol ( I love when they flower ) The pre bonsais are Tiger bark focus chinese elm portulacaria Thanks for looking.

Just wanted to share a pot and stand I printed for my little mame "in progress" portulacaria afa. After alittle elbow grease , paint and sealer and im calling it done for now. Thanks for looking!

I decided to start my first bonsai development progress thread. It's going to be a mame probably. I got the seedling as a gift from my grandmother and decided to wire it up to see if it turned into something good. Here are some pictures from less than a week when I planted it in a plastic pot...

I got this seedling as a gift from my grandmother and I wanted help identifying it because I want to create a thread to follow the evolution of this plant. I know it will take a while but I want to make a mame of this plant. I was told it was from Citrus reticulata but I wanted to certify it...

Hi guys, my first post! I have been lurking for a while, but decided I could do with some advice. (not sure if this should be in the styling thread or what, but as It's my first post, I stuck it here.) I have this dwarf Korean fir, which I bought back in April, around when I first got into...

Bonsai is an Art of Making Plants small and giving them a form of natural look to the plant. It's a skilled art and how Nature Plays a main role in shaping plants. In Bonsai Art Plants are acquiring a Tree shape in masters hands just like in Nature. We are trying to keep our Bonsai Plants as...

A couple months ago while looking for something on Amazon, I came across this mini pottery wheel. Despite the reviews of it being under powered I thought it could be usable to make mame pots. So yesterday I finally had some free time to really try it out. At the end of my testing of...

Hi! I'm an 18 years old italian guy and I'm into bonsai since 2016. That's my first thread ever on this forum and I'm so excited. I want to show you a brief evolution of this mame juniper that was gifted to me from a friend in 2018. It was already a 3 years old cutting. Unfortunately I don't...

I was training this little Symphoricarpos sp. root cutting to be a mame bonsai and was planning to pot it in this clay pot (recycled candle base). It was growing well but I noticed little white stuff on the leaves. I was wondering if someone can confirm its a fungus infection. Any input will...

I've started training this maple about 3 years ago. It was a grafted cultivar. First season I ground layered it. The second season of having it, I put it on a board. No nails to spread out roots, just screwed to a board and left to grow. Third season, I skipped work. Just too busy with things...

So I cheated, I didn’t make this, I bought it. Also, it came from zone 6 or 7, so it might even wake up in my brutal winter (it seriously is brutal, too hot to go without AC but not hot enough to justify turning it on). Anyways, I think I wanna raise it 2 or 3mm to expose some roots. It’s...

2 years from seed. 8 months in this pot.

Bought this great little cotoneaster coral beauty for $10 on June 4th. Loved its inherent trunk line and could see, based on the trunk line, that the base was plenty thick and leaves plenty small to make a convincing composition. Here it is after chopping , removing duff and loose soil and...

Mame contest part two: prepare the tree and get it in the mame sized pot. 1 year and 3 months (20-08-2017 -- 20-11-2018) ---------------------------- This thread is to post updates on all contending mame tree's to prove that the tree's realy are in their mame pots that fit withiin the pot...

Ive been on the look out for a berberis for a while now but all the small ones i came across were multiple shoots coming up from the roots But today i was Lucky! Single trunk taper and hopefully some nice roots. Not the healthyest of the bunch but ill provide it with great care so i wil get...

Well, I have this small JBP and the front branch (small, to the right, covering the trunk). What do you think? Should I get rid of it?

Got this little 18 years old (documented!) as a birthday gift in September. It was grown from seed by a local Japanese bonsai master; after he passed away, two other bonsaists took care of it. So I got it like you see in the picture, in need of shape and by the end of the Winter here. But...

Hi guys. Last week i got this bougainvillea from a nursary. I made some little cuts, tried to keep its natural shape. Do you have any ideas Thanks