What are your 2025 bonsai goals?

[shohin_branches]

What are your goals for the growing season?

What are you looking to improve upon?

What steps are you taking to get there?

Do you have milestones you want to hit?

 

[shohin_branches]

Goal #1: use a 4 point tiedown for all repots in 2025
This can be tricky with some of the pots I have but some careful planning and a huge roll of 2mm wire should help me get there. Grow bags don't count for this.

Goal #2: Improve note taking by creating care records for 20 trees.
I'm shooting for two records added to my binder each month
Bonus points for making a drawing of what I envision for the tree.

Goal #3: Wire all the trees!
I bought a lot of cheap rolls of aluminum wire and I got a wire caddy from my mentor. Wire more, practice more, improve my wiring technique. Rewatch the Colin Lweis wiring class. I just need to find a good source of copper wire for conifers.

 

[jason biggs]

i have to succeed with baobab propagation this year !! small cuttings, truncheon cuttings, air layers...

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Weeding. Weeding. So much weeding.
And making choices. My collection composition is changing from cheap starter plants to fiddle with, to more advanced material. I broke through a barrier last year when it comes to designing and I have it figured out, more or less.
That means my eye for material has been shifting from "I can make this work in 10 years" to "I don't want to water this for another 9 and instead focus on how to improve the ones I can finish in 2 years".
I never thought I would be that person, but I trashed a bunch of smaller projects.

Also trying my hand at trident maples.

 

[shohin_branches]

Weeding. Weeding. So much weeding.
And making choices. My collection composition is changing from cheap starter plants to fiddle with, to more advanced material. I broke through a barrier last year when it comes to designing and I have it figured out, more or less.
That means my eye for material has been shifting from "I can make this work in 10 years" to "I don't want to water this for another 9 and instead focus on how to improve the ones I can finish in 2 years".
I never thought I would be that person, but I trashed a bunch of smaller projects.

Also trying my hand at trident maples.

Last year I threw some really ugly projects in the compost and it actually made me relieved that I didn't have to keep looking at them on my benches anymore.

 

[Shibui]

Time for me to wind down.

• Plant 1 less row in the grow beds.
• Sow no seeds.
• Fewer cuttings.
• Try to reduce the number of larger trees.
• Pass on project trees 'that might be good in 5 or 10 years' to others.
• No trident or JM seedlings to be potted up. Even if they 'might be great in 5-10 years'

 

[Cadillactaste]

Attempting to change angles of trees, to improve upon them...and moving a couple trees into nicer suited pots...for better pairings. Concentration gives me a headache...as I'm on a lot of medication to get better and in a brain fog. But, I'll get them done.

I've raw material also new to me...so setting structure along the way. Will be deeper contemplated. What to keep...what to discard. Just when I say no more rough material... an oddball curiosity draws me in. lol