Hello fellow nuts!

[seiguy]

Hey all, just wanted to say hello to everyone!

My name is Brian, but my friends call me Brain (ask and I will tell the story).

I live in southeast Iowa, hence the name 'seiguy.'

I am here to seek knowledge and guidance, and to provide cheeky lip. There's not enough wit in the world these days...

I really like little trees in pots, and I'm very new to this. I've owned one of them for six years, been calling it a bonsai the entire time but I'm fairly sure to all you pros it's known as "a stick in a pot."

Cheers.

 

[sorce]

Brain

Had a friend we called that once.

You are going to be fun!

Welcome to Crazy!

Sorce

 

[jcrossett]

Welcome brain got any picture of your stick in pot.

The first thing to worry about is keeping them alive. Looks like you have that covered.

 

[M. Frary]

and to provide cheeky lip

I don't know how that will go over here.
We're a pretty serious bunch.

 

[Paradox]

Dies sorce have an auto reply bot or something?

Welcome to BNut.
Dont let M. Frary scare you, he gets "serious" mixed up with silliness

 

[M. Frary]

Dies sorce have an auto reply bot or something?

Welcome to BNut.
Dont let M. Frary scare you

I was replying with some cheeky lip of my own!

 

[GrimLore]

Hey all, just wanted to say hello to everyone!

Hello and welcome to Crazy. Where/what is this Iowa?

Grimmy

 

[Paradox]

I was replying with some cheeky lip of my own!

I think you've cornered the market on that already

 

[M. Frary]

I think you've cornered the market on that already

You're giving me a run for my money today.
I like it. Now. Don't you have a bonsai exhibit to go look at or something?

 

[jcrossett]

You're giving me a run for my money today.
I like it. Now. Don't you have a bonsai exhibit to go look at or something?

Lmao

 

[M. Frary]

Lmao

A little good natured fun on a Sunday morning.
I'm just jealous Sandy is where she is and I'm not.

 

[jcrossett]

A little good natured fun on a Sunday morning.
I'm just jealous Sandy is where she is and I'm not.

I'm jealous y'all made it to the convention and I'm stuck home with the wife and kids.

Do get me wrong I love them but I see them everyday.

Don't get to see amazing trees/ bonsai in person of this stature everyday.

 

[seiguy]

I'm at work this weekend (Sat, Sun, Mon) but I will be sure to get some pictures of my best stick in a pot soon. It's a Ficus salicaria (willow leaf fig) and I absolutely haven't been able to kill it. Battled spider mites for a few winters (miracle gro with too much nitrogen) and though it defoliated a few times it never managed to die!

My "collection" consists of four of the F. salicaria, four or five Portulacaria afra, two Juniper procumbens nana, a Potentilla fruticosa with some AMAZING features for a Lowe's find, seven Ilex 'blue boy' or something like that, something unidentified that looks like a willow, and two Physocarpus.

All of the outdoor plants are in the ground to grow for a while over pieces of, believe it or not, cut up plastic coffee cans about 8"x8" to get the roots to radiate instead of growing straight down... Again, pictures to come! Thanks for the warm welcome, I'll try to keep the biting sarcasm to a minimum M. Frary!

 

[M. Frary]

, I'll try to keep the biting sarcasm to a minimum M. Frary!

Oh no. You keep it coming.

 

[jomawa]

Iowa

Looks like a state of confusion. If you owe Washington (state that is, not the money grabbers back east), anyway if you owe Washington, then pay up. And if ya do then you'll maybe be welcome. Oh, and uhhh, my account is able to accept, yeah that's it, accept any monies due us Washingtonians. Ah, heck with it anyway, welcome to nutzville.

 

[Lobaeux]

I'm in Iowa this weekend, Des Moines actually. Very pretty area, always just thought of this as just "fly over country".

 

[Soldano666]

Welcome