michaelj
Chumono
Looking forward to it.
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Jetson1950
Shohin
Our local Villages Bonsai Club was doing an exhibit today. There were about 30 bonsai in the exhibit. Here are a few of them.
Brazilian Rain Tree
Satsuki Azalea
Bougainvillea
Bald Cypress
Brazilian Rain Tree
Satsuki Azalea
Bougainvillea
Bald Cypress
A. Gorilla
Omono
Noticed a black swallow tail
Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
Potted up these two a. palmatum seedlings I got from a clients garden bed. I liked the leaf shape.
MrFancyPlants
Masterpiece
I went shopping for pots in the southern hemisphere. Thank you Izumi family.
Ozz80
Mame
- Applied lime sulphur to a neglected small Itoigawa. I am planning to wire and shape it next month.
- In order to decide about the final design, inspected a yamadori Austrian Pine for two hours from different angles, making sketches (with the quality of an 7 year old) . There is an apartment building nearby and neighbours can see me, so if anyone was watching, they probably thought that I am totally crazy. At last, I decided to wire a few branches to see whether I can get away without grafting (and I think I can). Decided about the front, which branches to remove / jin and the inclination angle of the tree. Probably the soil is mixed with original growing material. So I will just keep it alive at the moment, repot at next spring and see how it responds.
Finally renewed an airlayer which did not work on a Japanese maple, but using substrate instead of spagnum moss this time, though I kept some moss at the top to keep moisture.
- In order to decide about the final design, inspected a yamadori Austrian Pine for two hours from different angles, making sketches (with the quality of an 7 year old) . There is an apartment building nearby and neighbours can see me, so if anyone was watching, they probably thought that I am totally crazy. At last, I decided to wire a few branches to see whether I can get away without grafting (and I think I can). Decided about the front, which branches to remove / jin and the inclination angle of the tree. Probably the soil is mixed with original growing material. So I will just keep it alive at the moment, repot at next spring and see how it responds.
Finally renewed an airlayer which did not work on a Japanese maple, but using substrate instead of spagnum moss this time, though I kept some moss at the top to keep moisture.
Jetson1950
Shohin
Started my second air layer on this Lacebark Elm. This one will be 14” above the air layer leaving a 20” tree at the bottom.
My kids took me to Chanticleer garden in Wayne, PA. Beautiful place. I've been before, but they change plantings often and keep it immaculate.
Did not take too many pics... and not of flowers...
And they let me root through their back yard and flower beds.
Got a dawn redwood seedling, Japanese maple seedling from the neighbor's trees and a bunch of silver maples from who nows where...
Did not take too many pics... and not of flowers...
And they let me root through their back yard and flower beds.
Got a dawn redwood seedling, Japanese maple seedling from the neighbor's trees and a bunch of silver maples from who nows where...
The Barber
Chumono
Attended a 4 hour workshop with Young Choe today. I ended up changing this one is a bit, but that's all the photos I took of this one. Made use of a collected wild blueberry that decided to abandon the trunk and sucker up from the roots.
Paradox
Marine Bonsologist
Repotted my little willow leaf ficus
SFDrake
Shohin
What a cool little ficus! Im on the lookout for a tiger bark next...
Paradox
Marine Bonsologist
I have one. Honestly im not too happy with it. It just refuses to back bud to get denser foliage so far despite feeding and pruning it back as odd as that seems. It just extends the last leaf left on the branch instead of giving me more foliage behind it.
I might try just hard cutting it back next spring and if it lives, it lives, if not I don't consider it big loss at this point. It might be they are better for bigger bonsai than I'm trying to do with it idk.
Willow leaf seems to be more agreeable with back budding.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Do you remove all growing tips from the tree when you try to get it to backbud? That is key.
leatherback
The Treedeemer
Got caught in a rainstorm. DId not manage to put my trees in shelter to avoid rootrot.
Paradox
Marine Bonsologist
I don't remember how I pruned it last year but I just did that to it today, cut off all emerging buds at the end of every branch but left a leaf or two.
rutulus
Yamadori
oranjeaap
Mame
Today I bought about 20 bonsai pots for €50 on the local classifieds website. Varying sizes from very tiny to 2 absolutely huge pots.
I think it was a good deal but that's not why I jumped on them. I don't have any pots yet, been growing a bunch of stuff in training pots and baskets of sorts for a while now, but nothing worthy of a nice pot yet. I've been eyeballing several really nice pots locally but some cost more for one than I paid for this lot.
It was about time to get some cheap beginner pots so this deal came just at the right time.
They are all unmarked pots and nearly all are made of cheap materials and are of inferior quality. They are banged up and have chips and dents but that's how I like them to be honest.
Despite being cheap pots some of them are kinda nice (when choosing the right angle hehe). Coincidentally the nicest of the bunch (in my opinion) is the only Japanese pot.
My neighbor is Chinese and although I think they're kinda hideous he will go wild when he sees these two big pots:
I think it was a good deal but that's not why I jumped on them. I don't have any pots yet, been growing a bunch of stuff in training pots and baskets of sorts for a while now, but nothing worthy of a nice pot yet. I've been eyeballing several really nice pots locally but some cost more for one than I paid for this lot.
It was about time to get some cheap beginner pots so this deal came just at the right time.
They are all unmarked pots and nearly all are made of cheap materials and are of inferior quality. They are banged up and have chips and dents but that's how I like them to be honest.
Despite being cheap pots some of them are kinda nice (when choosing the right angle hehe). Coincidentally the nicest of the bunch (in my opinion) is the only Japanese pot.
My neighbor is Chinese and although I think they're kinda hideous he will go wild when he sees these two big pots:
Michigan Tree Murderer
Masterpiece
Repotted my Dwarf Schefflera banyan attempt into a smaller pot. If it lives I'll work the branches more. After seeing what Nigel Saunders does to his Schefflera I'm not really worried about it. 
I still have a long way to go before it's finished but I wanted to put it in a smaller pot to slow it down.
The hardest part was identifying and removing the surface roots.
The base started to get flimsy, and that made it difficult to pick up properly, This is the last picture I took of working the roots but they got another hour of separating the aerial roots and removing surface roots.
The front.
Back
I still have a long way to go before it's finished but I wanted to put it in a smaller pot to slow it down.The hardest part was identifying and removing the surface roots.
The base started to get flimsy, and that made it difficult to pick up properly, This is the last picture I took of working the roots but they got another hour of separating the aerial roots and removing surface roots.
The front.
Back
Jetson1950
Shohin
Got an Arakawa JM on my trip to Texas that had about a 2’ leader on it. Decided to trim it down to slow its growth and spread the wealth to the rest of the branching. Removed the top 4 inches and then took two 6” cuttings. For the cutting mix I used 40% perlite, 40% vermiculite and 20% peat moss. 6” pots with domes. The pot on the right actually has two cuttings in it, but I only expect the tall one will root. The other little cutting is still soft wood and not the right time of year for it. It will run out of energy before it can developed roots. That was that top 4” I cut off.
