Deep Sea Diver
Imperial Masterpiece
@Charlo is correct. Looked through the first 10 pages of offerings (some look duplicate). Looks like they got a new shipment of whip grown developmental material from their supplier. There are a number of cultivars that I know can rapidly produce pads due to their propensity to back bud in force. Hanamaiko, Azumakagami, Kakua, Kirin etc
Quite a few are given at least a twist here or bend there, creating the bare bones of a style to boot. A few are shown. Doubt they spent the time to curate the nebari at this price.
Sorry, not a big fan of neagari. Mainly as most I see haven’t had their roots properly trained. Most aren’t, but you’ll know it when you see a good one as these are beautiful.
Going on…. All the 195.00 items still need to be developed, properly pruned and pulled out of these pots and put in Tokoname pots to develop. Not a fan of Brussels media, so rootwashing to set up the nebari likely would be in order. Yet for the price these are decent deals.
On the last page there are three a tad higher price 250-450, with promise for the future. The one that was taken care of growing out (top hamper only, nebari needs solid attention is this Kazan. (The top hamper begs asymmetrical styling. Remember Kazan is one of those Satsuki that resists wiring, iow will bounce back a couple times before becomes fixed in place.)
The other, in the right hands, that could be a really decent bonsai is the one with no name. Likely a Kozan-Nikko family @Glaucus would know better (Sachi no Tsukasa, or such). I can’t tell the size of the trunk, but seems a really good buy at that price point, again in the right hands. Would clean up, a tad, winter over, root wash and get in good media in a Tokaname pot well missed up and grow this out for a couple years while growing out the canopy and trunk more. It could make a really nice bonsai in the future.
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Cheers
DSD sends
Quite a few are given at least a twist here or bend there, creating the bare bones of a style to boot. A few are shown. Doubt they spent the time to curate the nebari at this price.
Sorry, not a big fan of neagari. Mainly as most I see haven’t had their roots properly trained. Most aren’t, but you’ll know it when you see a good one as these are beautiful.
Going on…. All the 195.00 items still need to be developed, properly pruned and pulled out of these pots and put in Tokoname pots to develop. Not a fan of Brussels media, so rootwashing to set up the nebari likely would be in order. Yet for the price these are decent deals.
On the last page there are three a tad higher price 250-450, with promise for the future. The one that was taken care of growing out (top hamper only, nebari needs solid attention is this Kazan. (The top hamper begs asymmetrical styling. Remember Kazan is one of those Satsuki that resists wiring, iow will bounce back a couple times before becomes fixed in place.)
The other, in the right hands, that could be a really decent bonsai is the one with no name. Likely a Kozan-Nikko family @Glaucus would know better (Sachi no Tsukasa, or such). I can’t tell the size of the trunk, but seems a really good buy at that price point, again in the right hands. Would clean up, a tad, winter over, root wash and get in good media in a Tokaname pot well missed up and grow this out for a couple years while growing out the canopy and trunk more. It could make a really nice bonsai in the future.
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Cheers
DSD sends
