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#1 is the little mame over here (post 3, guess I haven't updated this year): https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/mame-mia.60322/ Dug this one up from a land trust nature preserve in my neighborhood - my wife and I are stewards, and are more than welcome to remove invasives. Let it grow this...

Wasn't sure why I put this sucker I pulled out from under my lilac shrubs in a pot, until now. Had a tiny Paul Katich (Bellota) pot laying around... Begin: Bend 1 by my 6 year old daughter: Bend 2 by my 4 year old son: And more squishing by me: Let's pot it, because why not...

Wish me luck 🤣 Collected on Easter at my uncle's house in NH. If I'm coming over in early spring, and you have woods, my root slayer is coming with me. Surprised I didn't take any pictures prior to/during potting - must have been in a rush - but it's a bit bulbous under there. April 1st...

Step one: throw a shit ton of seeds in a tray. Step two: take a handful of seedlings out to grow separately. Step three: ignore the ones in the tray. There better be an odd number in there, or it's doomed!

One of six divided from a bush collected at a friend's house last fall. Just selecting some branches and setting some structure today.

Don't pay much attention to this guy, but it's starting to look like something after a few years. Grabbed it (and another larger, just as ugly, piece) from a neighbor when they were clearing space for a new deck. Oct. 2020: May 2022: Nov. 2022: Aug. 2023: Now:

I know, not great for bonsai, I was new and stupid - but hey, I like it so far! There is a post over in my "Threadless thread" when the air layer was removed: https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/rjgiis-threadless-projects.49075/post-875767 May 2023: July 2023: Current (a frost killed...

Got this at an "intermediate" class at Bonsai West. Wasn't too impressed with the class, information seemed much more beginner. Basically just did a repot and light pruning. This is my first "real" JM, so we'll see how it goes. It is a grafted tree, but the graft isn't bad. At the class...

As purchased Feb. 2023: Repotted: Flowers, spring 2023: Current (just removed wires; rebuilding branches and growing out new leader section):

Root exposure (slowly) in progress. Progression posts are scattered over here (but I'll try to summarize in this thread): https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/rjgiis-threadless-projects.49075/post-885000 Current (@sorce pot):

From a cutting in 2020 I think. Surprised I don't have any earlier photos. Repotted into a cheap Chinese container and rewired today (only lost a few older flowers...). Guess I need a cascade stand now.

#1 because I guess I should start numbering things... Splitting off from my threadless thread here: https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/rjgiis-threadless-projects.49075/post-1045516 Last image from late may: Current: Growing well, so will probably do some more branch selection and thinning...

I think I did alright for my first try! Wiring will need some adjustments once it gets established. Finished product first: Process time. Twisted up the kishu a while ago: Prepping the rock: Let's make muck the Hagedorn way (maybe I'll post a separate thread on this, there were...

This one is getting promoted from my Threadless thread. Collected from the woods spring 2022. Collection post (chop, root cutback, etc): https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/rjgiis-threadless-projects.49075/post-949576 Update 1 (2022/07/12)...

Splitting it out into it's own thread from https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/rjgiis-threadless-projects.49075/ Seems to be doing well. June 22nd: Shoot selection and cut back (also June 22nd): July 15th:

My first juniper. Should be good practice. Giving it it's own thread because I'm proud of it for living through a late summer full bare root last year. At this point I had only done a bit of clean up and practiced a couple of my first jins.

This should be interesting, if I can pull it off (out of the ground). This elm was cut down at ground level for a fence. The right side grew back into a full tree. I kept running over the left with the lawn mower, and after rotting away a bunch, it looks like the edge of a crater - this is...

This is my first ficus (from Wigert's), and I'm not feeling inspired at all. No taper. Any suggestions? So far, the only things I can think of is the following chop (first notch halfway, then when mostly healed finish by air layering the top), or wrapping another container around the trunk and...