repotting

I did repot a few trees last spring (my first spring doing bonsai) and I think I may have messed up timing since those trees recovered, but not very well. For repotting trees this year, I would like to know when the ideal time is. Should it be after last frost to avoid killing new roots or when...

Hello, I have a ginseng ficus, but am still quite new to bonsai (and this forum). Just yesterday I purchased a juniperus communis from a nursery. It has a very strange pot situation going on, it is in a very tall temporary pot, with the roots buried towards the bottom, and the remainder of the...

Hello fellow Nuts, I have a very young Trident Maple that @Eric Group sold me. I will be repotting it next year into a pond basket or other similar growing container. In addition to a full repot, I would like to employ the tile method. Does anybody have any hands-on tips that they can...

Hey, everyone, I'm a little worried about my little bonsai, I took it to the local plant nursery and talked to the bonsai guy there and had him help me prune it so it wouldn't die and to get his idea on a few things. After that I put it back in the pot with some more potting soil, to give it...

A short article for those looking into the repotting of JBP: Throughout the year there will be updates with relevant content about repotting, bare-rooting (seedlings), removing compacted soil, root pruning and timing specific technique aimed at helping people who are new to JBP. You may find...

My Tiger Barks are waking up early this year, so I'm starting to the repot. The first one, I call the Peanut Butter Ficus (it'll make sense momentarily). It was purchased at a regular nursery and was growing next to a schefflera in the same pot. I found that it had large tuber roots under the...

Here's a cutting grown kotohime clump that needs repotting. Soil mass is solid and roots are growing through the drainage holes. Surface is full of weeds. I'll go through it all, just how I was taught. This is the perfect time to repot Japanese maple. See how the buds are beginning to...

This is my first post, first bonsai. I have a ~5 year old Chinese Elm from Eastern Leaf. When I bought it last Spring, I almost immediately repotted from nursery soil to a 100% inorganic akadama/lava mix. The tree did very well last summer and only lost about half of its foliage into the winter...

Hello, I'm new to bonsai but not to plants. I like to do a lot with medicinal herbs. Every year my mother and I go to this greenhouse that specializes in those sorts of things. While we were there we stopped at another greenhouse that was nearby that does various plants that you don't find...

Hello all, I have recently acquired a beautiful Japanese maple and given it's size I am hoping to soon transplant it into a smaller pot. I understand how to trim the roots properly, but am looking for a good mix to plant it in. I know that plain old potting soil is not what you want, but as...

Hello everyone, I am going to stick mainly to this forum, as I have had Bonsai before but they have all been the garden center variety and all died on me. I will be receiving a Podocarpus Macropyllus and a Juniper Nana in the next few days and they will both be 4" trees. I know that I probably...

Hi there, I've recently started my first bonsai project. I started with a small Sawara False Cypress that I picked up at a small shop outside of my hometown; I would say it's about a year old, but I'm no expert so that may not be true. I have successfully trimmed the roots and repotted the...

Probably my smallest real tree - it's a Field maple/Acer campestre - grown from a collected seedling. Going from a massive 4inch pot to a correctly proportioned 2incher from Walsall Ceramics. 03194695 by Jerry Norbury, on Flickr 03194697 by Jerry Norbury, on Flickr 03194703 by Jerry...

Acer palmatum katsura decided to force my hand on the repotting front. It's was marked for a repot but I guess late frost finally got the better of the Czech pot. 03134467 by Jerry Norbury, on Flickr Well ready for a repot. 03134473 by Jerry Norbury, on Flickr I broke the rest of the pot off...

Hey everybody, I have a few questions about what I think is a Bloodgood J.M. I guess it could be Emperor 1 or Fireglow, they all look so similar to me when they're this small and very hard to tell the difference. IMG_20160222_124328 by cbroad posted Feb 22, 2016 at 2:18 PMIMG_20160222_124316 by...

So I bought a Trident at the California Shohin Seminar last weekend (it's obviously not Shohin sized though). I'm excited about this tree and looking forward to working with it. I was impressed with the trunk's taper and movement, and despite some flaws, it's definitely one of the nicer pieces...