Newbies - want to share your trees?

[Atom#28]

Here’s a lil mugo I styled today

 

[Atom#28]

And I juniper I started last fall from nursery stock

 

[W3rk]

Here's a "new" tree with humble beginnings. A Ficus Burtt-Davy root cutting taken over 3 months ago. Finally just started to sprout. Hope it will continue to grow now that it's been brought in for the winter.

 

[ShadyStump]

Glad to see this thread still alive. It popped up shortly after I joined BNut, and it made all the difference in the world as far as me feeling like part of a community of some sort.

Be proud of your sticks in pots. Lord knows I'm proud of mine, and I always enjoy seeing yours, too.

 

[Lumaca]

I've been reading the JBP contest threads to see if my progression is matching up and I seem to be doing ok compared to the tropical members.

Here's my strongest grower, (in that fancy akadama) and one "control" in peat moss + perlite. Hardly any difference, and the peat is outgrowing some of the weaker akadama.

 

[BigC]

It was never the intention to allow myself to be sucked into all of this. I wanted two nice trees for around my small pond, but something seems to have gone awry and spreading faster than Covid. The bench will have to be tweaked in order to cope with the influx of new patients.

 

[Bnana]

I'm super happy with this larch forest. I collected them this spring and they've developed quite quickly. In a few months from sticks to something that starts to look like a tiny forest. I did pinch and prune a lot.
The tray is ugly but wanted to see whether the trees survived before I would buy a proper pot.

 

[Dkdhej]

I'm super happy with this larch forest. I collected them this spring and they've developed quite quickly. In a few months from sticks to something that starts to look like a tiny forest. I did pinch and prune a lot.
The tray is ugly but wanted to see whether the trees survived before I would buy a proper pot.View attachment 335234

That fallen tree makes it look so natural!

 

[Bnana]

I was hoping it would still have some buds that would grow from the trunk, larch does that sometimes. But that's the fun with bonsai, you can come up with an idea but the tree has to agree. This went differently but it's okay too.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Thank you for the warning! I have learned about that and intended to only completely remove entirely dead branches. Reducing the long non-trunk leaders is the only other pruning I'm planning on right now. Cleaning out is probably the wrong term. Just wanted to acknowledge the amount of yellow/brown needles around the trunk. Not much to do for those now

I am planning on keeping pretty much everything else, including the lowest tiny branches. If I understand the concept, those should be sacrificial branches that'll help thicken the trunk relatively quicky, right?

Glad you got it.

The interior green that you keep is not really "sacrifice branches" rather they are the branches that will replace your older, thicker branches as the foliage on them gets too far away from the trunk. They will be the replacements. Your larger, older branches will only be in scale with your bonsai for a limited number of years, maybe a decade or so. Then they will be too thick, and the foliage will be too far away from the trunk. At that point the interior growth, that you have been keeping short, can be allowed to extend and replace the older branches that are too long. Make sense? Otherwise, you Chamaecyparis will just have to get larger and larger, as the foliage gets further and further away from the trunk.

 

[W3rk]

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Developed a specific area for the trees this fall! Also built a bench from scratch with my teacher which was a fun project. Will refine the area in spring with more landscaping, a windbreak, probably a small greenhouse.

603 Represent. I grew up like 2 towns over from you. Nice yard and space you have there. Looks very deer-safe, unlike my yard

 

[Atom#28]

It was never the intention to allow myself to be sucked into all of this. I wanted two nice trees for around my small pond, but something seems to have gone awry and spreading faster than Covid. The bench will have to be tweaked in order to cope with the influx of new patients.

I share your affliction. I wanted one nice little tree. It seems to be multiplying...

 

[Carol 83]

I wanted one nice little tree.

That's what everyone thinks at first..........

 

[Shogun610]

I have primarily pines. I have had none of these trees for more than a year. I have repotted, wired into beginning style. the Ponderosa'a are Yamadori. Most of the rest are nursery stock. All have a long way to go.

Where’d you get that trunk bend contraption

 

[Shogun610]

More to come have to capture the maple grow area ... the pitch pine is a purchase from EBay lucked out on a nice pre-bonsai

 

[Carpenterb30]

 

[thatguy]

603 Represent. I grew up like 2 towns over from you. Nice yard and space you have there. Looks very deer-safe, unlike my yard

Funny enough I used to live in south central PA and a brief stint in Maryland outside DC before moving up here. And yup yard is very deer safe but not safe from squirrels...mofos dig in the pots to bury peanuts and chew the bark. Life would be boring without adversity or so I keep telling myself haha

And pic of the three newest members. Stewartia Monadelpha, Kashima JM clump/turtle (needs some TLC) and a informal upright zelkova.

 

[Shogun610]

More to come have to capture the maple grow area ... the pitch pine is a purchase from EBay lucked out on a nice pre-bonsai

I realized I posted the wrong Pitch pine ahhhh .. this is the tree coming in mail...the one in this original post I lost bidding on.

 

[LanceMac10]

Funny enough I used to live in south central PA and a brief stint in Maryland outside DC before moving up here. And yup yard is very deer safe but not safe from squirrels...mofos dig in the pots to bury peanuts and chew the bark. Life would be boring without adversity or so I keep telling myself haha

And pic of the three newest members. Stewartia Monadelpha, Kashima JM clump/turtle (needs some TLC) and a informal upright zelkova.

Looks like somebody went to https://www.nebonsai.com/ !! How long take to get there? I can make it inside of an hour as long as there isn't highway construction...how is the rest of the stock looking like down there?

 

[thatguy]

Looks like somebody went to https://www.nebonsai.com/ !! How long take to get there? I can make it inside of an hour as long as there isn't highway construction...how is the rest of the stock looking like down there?

Ya got me! Haha I drove down to CT to visit Mark Comstock's place and then swung by NE on the way back. I actually hadn't been there before so it was a treat. Went back the following day to pick up those two trees and a few pots. Takes me about an hour twenty. The prices overall I felt were more reasonable than some other spots in the area. Tons of huge junipers around, a lot of weathered stock from a nursery they bought out a year ago. Many trees did look a little scorched due to the hot summer we had. But plenty of nice maples, some nice looking pines too. Jun the owner was very kind and helpful, as was the staff. I have my eye on a few trees that I left behind so don't buy any of them!