How many times before you give up ?
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pandacular
Masterpiece
It is very odd to start a thread soliciting feedback and ideas and then get enraged at them being offered.
Jelle’s last bit of advice, an echo of your own mockery, would do well to be taken.
On topic, I have very little interest in exploring novel species that are not a) locally collectible or b) worked on by my teachers. There is so much depth to individual genera and species that aimless exploration feels like an unwise use of my time and bench space for my current level of skill.
Jelle’s last bit of advice, an echo of your own mockery, would do well to be taken.
On topic, I have very little interest in exploring novel species that are not a) locally collectible or b) worked on by my teachers. There is so much depth to individual genera and species that aimless exploration feels like an unwise use of my time and bench space for my current level of skill.
shohin_branches
Omono
I've killed more than I can count over the years. I gave up on Azalea a long time ago but I figured if it's been over a decade then I could try again. Now I have two azaleas that have been doing well.
Fukien tea on the other hand was just reliving my childhood trauma and I still will not buy them.
Fukien tea on the other hand was just reliving my childhood trauma and I still will not buy them.
Been there and me neither.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
How?
Once with improper soil, once by repotting in the wrong season, and once by pulling a plant that was doing poorly from the ground and trimming/damaging too many roots.
Here is the tree as purchased, about 5' high including pot I will be able to do something on it later this week, I am thinking get rid of one of the 4 main branches and let recover for a while, OR see if any of the branches are flexible, if not cut 2 back now and 2 in spring.
The name on the tag says red cluster. I wish I could find the weeping one - they hang tendrils all the way to the ground.
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
I've killed a few JM myself. I will try again under different circumstances.Ha! I think I’ve tried Japanese maples 4 or 5 times now.
Funny thing is, I’ve been thinking about trying again
After each failure, I will do a postmortem examination to determine what went wrong. I will try again when I find out a reasonable cause and a plan for correction.
pandacular
Masterpiece
I think your move north will be great circumstances to try again with Acer p.
NMbonsai
Yamadori
The definition of insanity, allegedly attributed to Albert Einstein, is "doing the same over and over again and expecting different results." But Einstein didn't do bonsai!
It’s official then - I’m nuts.
Okay lets get this party started. A couple of threads recently got me to rethink my very lazy Nebari process when it comes to these contorted messes I sometimes get from the nursery. They leave them in the one gallon or three gallon too long before up-potting. I used to be a sucker for contorted nebari, and almost always made them raised. The good thing about raised is the strong survive and the weak (roots) die, and that is what I wanted. That is what I did here on one side, leaning it and keeping part out to dry up.
I feel like now I need to go under there and prune the fattest root, then lay the others out and downward.
But I was hoping someone could see the next move and direct. Is there a thread on difficult tangled roots?
Cajunrider
Imperial Masterpiece
I have fought the tangled roots multiple times on different trees and different species. Here are my results.
1. I can do it with ficus, to a lesser degree with bald cypress & Mayhaws, can't do it with oaks.
2. With all species I've played with, air/ground layers yield better & faster results than diddling with untangling, sorting, trimming, waiting for them to regrow.
1. I can do it with ficus, to a lesser degree with bald cypress & Mayhaws, can't do it with oaks.
2. With all species I've played with, air/ground layers yield better & faster results than diddling with untangling, sorting, trimming, waiting for them to regrow.
Bonsai Nut
Nuttier than your average Nut
Exactly. The challenge is to make sure that when you kill the same species, you come up with new and unusual ways to kill them.
Just gonna add that it is tough to fool Mother Nature. Trees that I could not grow in SoCal grow like weeds here in NC. Some of the trees that grew like weeds in SoCal, struggle here in NC. And then there are trees that grow like weeds no matter where they are. That's why I always point beginners towards Chinese elms and shimpaku junipers
BobbyLane
Imperial Masterpiece
Still works on nursery trees, mostly well established ones, where the root has fully occupied the nursery tub. Otherwise it would be tedious to tease out all the roots in nursery tubs.
rockm
Spuds Moyogi
Sawing the bottom third to two thirds of the root mass is step one in any of my repotting. It makes things easier on me and the tree. Tangled root masses are not a great preference because they are tangled and have to be constantly sorted at every repot
Removal of the bottom roots will simply not kill a deciduous species. In fact such treatment can revitalize a tangled clogged root mass.
well it did not look good after working on it because the few white roots were on the ends of long craggy roots that needed to be cut. Eventually I got to an inner part where there was a fat root in a circle, near the one gallon container mark it looked like.
But I have photos and a few more trees with this I will start a new thread on terrible nebari so I don't have to see how I scream at LB so much : )
But I have photos and a few more trees with this I will start a new thread on terrible nebari so I don't have to see how I scream at LB so much : )
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