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It looks pretty good to me. Did they sell it to you as a San Jose juniper?

I wouldn't recommend you do anything right now. Mid April in Vegas is too late to be messing around with conifer roots - you want your tree completely settled after a repot, and before the heat of the summer. Can you share a photo of the entire tree? I'm seeing a lot of mixed needle and scale...

Sweetgum is a little challenging because (unlike a maple which it looks similiar to) it has alternating leaves instead of opposing leaves. It is difficult to develop ramification because it is difficult to prune back to two buds to get two new lateral shoots. It tends to get leggy and develop...

I am obviously just teasing - I look forward to seeing your results! That's a big layer and I hope you are successful!

Fixed it...

Spent yesterday potting up some Japanese hollies out of my landscape. I think they were planted circa 1974 (when our old house was built).

Threaten to put up the ugliest solar panel array if they don't allow you to put up a pergola with shade cloth :) HOA's in California can't block solar panel installs.

Yeah they are crowded. I end up with about 50ish per flat. But after two years it is still pretty easy to separate them and pot them up.

I do something similar, but it depends on the tree species. For weaker / smaller trees like Japanese maple or princess persimmon, I sow a ton of seeds in an Anderson flat and let them grow for two years. In the spring of the 3rd year they will be 4" - 6" tall and I move them into 1 gallon...

I am pretty sure that knees on bald cypress do not form outside of anaerobic conditions. This generally requires rootbound soil submerged in water. I had a long conversation about it with a botanist at the Huntington gardens in their bog room... with bald cypress growing knees all over the place.

When you start having fungus problems with Japanese Maple, it is often a combination of damage to roots, bad soil or overwet conditions. It is easy to lose a lot of trees if you repot too late in the spring. Sadly, though they are beautiful trees, they aren't among the hardiest.

Welcome to the site! You should not spray lime sulfur on deciduous foliage. If you want to apply it topically to a small wound or scar, that would be fine. If you are concerned about fungus, I would use a broad spectrum fungicide like Cleary's 336F.

Well... we all know that is the sin of sins... particularly when it was sold to him as a green JM. I just hope he doesn't resell the tree as that cultivar. I'd be very upset if I bought a cultivar from him and found out he sold me it because it "looked like" the cultivar I wanted. It is the...

I hesitate to buy any tree that I can't lift myself. Just too much of a hassle come repotting time, and the cost of media and pots is astronomical. I'm a pretty big guy and can manage pretty big trees, but when I left my largest California juniper back in California (which I could not lift by...

Lol oh I thought you were referring to how he pronounced " bonsai" which sounded fine to me.

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I just had it sitting in a weed-covered pot for several years because I really didn't like it. Finally I decided that I was never going to be happy with the lack of taper and the fake curves, so I cut off the top of the tree and all of the branches with the exception of the stub of one branch -...

Welcome back! I had an s-shaped Chinese elm once... and then I did this to it :)

Welcome to the site! Putting something into the soil once (or even a few times) will generally not cause any lasting harm. If you had used a chop stick and been gentle and had merely been probing the soil, you might not have caused any harm at all. However be careful not to mess with your new...

Very interesting. Let me see if I can track down the cultivar registration...

If Butterfly reverts, it is just a small branch at a time that is easily pruned off. Are you saying ALL the foliage reverted?

No. That is the literal translation of the two characters in the Japanese language - tree and pot. It is not the definition of the two terms together. It is similar to many compound words in English where the compound word may be suggested by its parts, but ultimately has a very different and...

I agree. I have traded trees with tons of people over the years - or simply given trees to people because I thought it would make them happy. Without naming names, in the last couple of weeks someone sent me an Acer P 'Beni chidori' - just because they were an awesome person.

Welcome to the site! I can confirm that it is a crepe myrtle but as to specific cultivar - I cannot.

Both males and females should flower - regardless of whether another plant is present. If the plant is strong and healthy, and is getting plenty of sun, I have no idea why it might not flower. A local persimmon here in the US - the American persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) supposedly won't...