Last tree of the year, 2019 edition

[Starfox]

Welp these should arrive in a day or 2.

Nobody seems to want the Callistemons so I will that is for sure. And a Celtis for good measure. Together comes in at like 85 euro so Merry Christmas to me.

 

[bluesky]

I like the callistemons in full flower, you see quite a few of them around here. Haven't tried one as bonsai though.

I recognise that pen in your pics... looks like Javi's pen in Laos Garden? My nearest bonsai nursery.

 

[Eckhoffw]

2019 Ender.

 

[Starfox]

I like the callistemons in full flower, you see quite a few of them around here. Haven't tried one as bonsai though.

I recognise that pen in your pics... looks like Javi's pen in Laos Garden? My nearest bonsai nursery.

Good eye Yeah they are Laos Garden trees, the pens a good reference. A pretty decent nursery to have close by.

Callistemons do well here and are common enough in garden centres but it's not often they come up a bonsai stock which is odd as they make excellent bonsai and in flower they are second to none.

 

[pweifan]

This is a free Ficus I got at our November Cleveland Bonsai Club meeting. I didn't intend to take it but no one else wanted it. Does anyone else recognize the leaf shape and know what type of Ficus it is? It has a single aerial root.

 

[Gsquared]

2019 Ender. View attachment 276394View attachment 276395

Wow, that formed foliage pads in no time.

 

[bluesky]

One last attempt from me!
Last tree of the decade? by bluesky, on Flickr

Happy New Year everyone

 

[Wilson]

Two cork elms for Christmas!

 

[Carol 83]

I received the dwarf jade today and was pretty pleased. I don't buy much from ebay, but I have never been disappointed in anything I have received from Wigert's, either from ebay or their regular website.

 

[Warpig]

I received the dwarf jade today and was pretty pleased. I don't buy much from ebay, but I have never been disappointed in anything I have received from Wigert's, View attachment 277154View attachment 277155either from ebay or their regular website.

I like it. Looks like you have plenty of branches in there too work with too.

 

[bluesky]

Is this your first dwarf jade? They are one of the easiest species to work with: you can chop and wire at any time, they backbud like crazy and you can even encourage a bud by making a small cut into the soft bark at an internode with some chance of success. Fleshy branch cuttings root easily in dry soil.
Two things to watch for, don't let it freeze! and 2. mealybugs.

 

[Carol 83]

Is this your first dwarf jade? They are one of the easiest species to work with: you can chop and wire at any time, they backbud like crazy and you can even encourage a bud by making a small cut into the soft bark at an internode with some chance of success. Fleshy branch cuttings root easily in dry soil.
Two things to watch for, don't let it freeze! and 2. mealybugs.

Thanks, but no, I keep quite a few at my office just for fun.

 

[Schmikah]

Thanks, but no, I keep quite a few at my office just for fun.

Do you have a window? Better question; how much light do they need in your experience?

I was thinking about doing something similar but my cube location is too far from exterior light for almost anything to live except moss and a few very-very low light plants.

 

[Carol 83]

Do you have a window?

Yes, a good southern exposure. Enough that the jades leaves get a reddish tinge and too bright for my orchids. I'm letting the last one on the right grow, so I have a bunch of cuttings to mess with during this long, boring winter.

 

[Schmikah]

Yes, a good southern exposure. Enough that the jades leaves get a reddish tinge and too bright for my orchids. I'm letting the last one on the right grow, so I have a bunch of cuttings to mess with during this long, boring winter. View attachment 277241

Never mind. . You meant home office. I suppose I'll crawl back to my lifeless cubicle.

On a separate note, you said too bright for your orchids? I wouldn't mind some orchid advice, my wife had the magic touch but started her master's program and I have been left to care for the two remaining, slowly dying, orchids. I had them in a north facing window but it wasn't quite enough light, so I tried to use the grow light that my tropicals are under, which hasn't produced much recovery. Any ideas?

 

[Carol 83]

Never mind. . You meant home office.

Lol, no it's my office at work. My orchids are in the east window, and seem to like it there, since they are almost continuously blooming. I just have a few phals, @Leo in N E Illinois is the orchid expert here.

 

[parhamr]

At the holiday party there was a club owned hinoki cypress for sale. Nobody else wanted it so I got it for $100. The tree was a long term “mother” propagation tree.

12 oz can for scale



This is close to the front: (after minor branch cleanup)


At this angle I could position the five trunks with guy wires to improve the front:


I went digging for nebari and uncovered the attachment point for this trunk: (which may become the front depending on the rest of the nebari)


I’ll continue with some digging. It’s clear this tree has been layered up with soil over many years. The soil is a sandy loam with humus.

 

[TrunkTickler]

I went to maple ridge nursery last week and picked up a couple of 7 gal trees to layer and play with next year. This one wasn't labeled, either arakawa or nishik igawa, one and the same? Who knows. Anyway I'm pretty excited about it. Planning a ground layer first in the spring to get the nebari started...View attachment 270621View attachment 270622

Hey, did you do the ground layer? Did it take?

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Hey, did you do the ground layer? Did it take?

I left it in the nursery can, cut the ring, applied a tourniquet, packed moss around, covered with potting soil. I haven't checked the roots, will peek at them in the spring

 

[TrunkTickler]

I left it in the nursery can, cut the ring, applied a tourniquet, packed moss around, covered with potting soil. I haven't checked the roots, will peek at them in the spring

Awesome, this variety could take a couple years to root? I've been reading up on it and I get kind of mixed opinions. I got a similiar size nursery stock and coming up with a plan to get it off the graft. Going to start another thread