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[Brian Van Fleet]

Took a few pix…

 

[LuZiKui]

Took the initial wires off my Cmeg kabudashi siberian elms a little bit ago, spent some time today looking at them trying to figure out what to do next. Unlike most species, these almost grow too fast. Insane how much size they've put on in the last month or two.

 

[RobGA]

Put up the flag
Happy Flag Day to us 'mericans.
No political statement intended but, maybe something both sides could agree on. LOL

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At least it is right side up. Good job!

 

[Underdog]

At least it is right side up. Good job!

LOL I think too much but it seems as an old weak/near dead tree struggling to carry the flag. Not directed at either of "those two"...
More abstract.

Then trimmed the crazy tree around the pond.

 

[RobGA]

At least it is right side up. Good job!

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Wife and I got married 24yrs ago on flag day, we took the day off to celebrate.


We got carry out and did it twice.

I attempted to imitate a wiring technique I saw online, wasn't as easy as it looked.

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Happy Friday!

We trimmed back a Trident (Domoto) maple… took two of us all morning. Shown while taking a distance check break.



Then pinched a Coastal Redwood. Sorry no image too busy… but finished it.

Finally began pinching a Western Hemlock. Before and after top section pinched.



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Last Friday one of the jobs was to curare a Satsuki nebari and clean up the trunk before placing it in public view.

Nebari. And the Juko Cascade Satsuki



Cheers
DSD sends

 

[Carol 83]

and did it twice.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Lol, You altered my quote & made it look dirty. "We got carry out and did it twice." We got carry out twice...

 

[NateDyk47]

Lol, You altered my quote & made it look dirty. "We got carry out and did it twice." We got carry out twice...

You were talking about your anniversary... I interpreted your statement the same way Carol did

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

You were talking about your anniversary... I interpreted your statement the same way Carol did

You & @Carol 83 interpreted it correctly, I was just messing with Carol because it's fun messing with your Bnut buddies. Also one of the emojis is the lying one.

 

[Cajunrider]

Taking my bonsai to new homes

 

[Mikea454]

Finished my new bonsai bench thanks to @jeremy_norbury sharing plans. Added a few extra shelves, a little wrap around near the top for the small ones and an extra one underneath for the warm then cold strat seeds. Used the cut-off ends from the shelves to make a few pedestals that I'll still have to work on arranging.

 

[bwaynef]

Here’s a Chinzan I’m slowly growing out. This was after cutting it back from a blob it had grown into this year. Once the apex starts to take shape I’ll wire out the branches. (Ok, maybe before then.) I’m pleased with the thickening happening in the apex with the sacrifice and extra pot size this year.

 

[leus]

Doing some light pruning and wiring on some of the 75 cents junipers that got about a year ago.

 

[NateDyk47]

Worked on another JM last night. This one's a dwarf seedling from Evergreen Gardenworks. I'm planning to air layer that big mess of branches for a kabudachi style once the smaller ones gain a bit of strength. Probably a 2025 project.

 

[The Barber]

Did some parial defoliation on one of my Weigela, pruned back hard a few weeks ago, had a long of weak large foliage. Gonna do some guy wires on it later.

 

[bwaynef]

• I took cuttings of Ume, then wired up some of last year's cuttings, realizing pretty quickly that I shouldn't have waited so long as they were pretty snappy. (Even when I doubled up on the wire.) Cuttings into the fridge for a month or so.
• Made a few decisions as to what I'll be growing in my growbeds this spring.
• Finally cut off an area of my corkbark elm I'd intended to airlayer ...but waiting on doing that was becoming a hindrance to its development. I think the resulting trunkline has some promise.

Here’s a follow up. ~80-90 cuttings. I would estimate <10 didn’t root.

 

[Paradox]

Checked out a pond/koi place on Long Island that is expanding into bonsai. I hope it works out for them and they become the new good bonsai place here

Bought 2 satsuki from them

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Repotted my Tiger bark ficus to get it out of the crappy Wigerts soil.




Being careful not to kill any air roots.


I really like this pot. I got it from @penumbra last year, it's a Stone age stoneware pot .



Better shot of the pot.