New silk mimosa JBP purple crabapple White oak

[hinmo24t]

Fresh off the sweetest tree farm around and 10 mins from me. Scored the pine for $65 mimosa for $75 and roadside $10 each for others.

Is it okay to slip pot the pine into a big clay pot I have nice soil. Leaving entire soil thats with it now just slip pot? Clays maybe not for harsh winter?

Okay to top these w nice soil until work next year? Bury roots a bit with concave soil to them or no for rot?

Ditch my eastern red cedars now that i have crabapple or no since all thats within a few miles anyway for apple cedar rust?

Thanks.

 

[BonsaiNaga13]

$75 for a mimosa is a scam honestly. They're so invasive and fast growing in 5 years or less you could grow one like that. The flowers are beautiful but I have 2 growing against my house foundation that need to be cut down

 

[hinmo24t]

$75 for a mimosa is a scam honestly. They're so invasive and fast growing in 5 years or less you could grow one like that. The flowers are beautiful but I have 2 growing against my house foundation that need to be cut down

I could see that but we dont see many up here near cape cod...one thing is I got the one silk tree with prob an 1" + base and the root system was apparently better than others i looked at. I will look to hardcut and work as bonsai and maybe get a few cuttings going then. This one is purple and hardy supposedly.

I was looking at the JBP Kotobuki and it seems strong...this place has few trees under $50 and I feel like for the bark and age of maybe 10 years on this one and its health $65 wasnt bad. I added my nice soil mix on all the plants and inch or so and concaved soil to trunk. All roots covered. I'll look into decandle the pine in the fall maybe unless just wait until spring for everything...but its pretty full up top I noticed.

I need to look into the purple crabapple species but that thing is growing well it seems and is about .5" + thick.

The white oak I like although it has a weird bench at trunk...want to grow it regardless it seems like a strong little tree and I see them in wild on Rocky hillsides windswept often. These leafs are farther along and defined

Finished this in 90* heat today too valspar exterior semi gloss

 

[BonsaiNaga13]

Best of luck to ya. I'd love to see a mimosa as a bonsai. Tried and failed several times but I'm only 3 years in of practice.