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    Jpb 20 year progression (with errors inside)

    When a trunk fattens, inner surfaces fuse and thus, trunks fattens more in the inner part of a curve than on the outside. The stiffer the curve, the bigger the enlargement. So when you form a young tree with stiff curves, their stiffness should always decrease from bottom to top.
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    Bonsai Log

    Ah, this post made my day. I thought I was the last person to use it. Thanks to Microsoft for keeping binary compatibility for years. Sometimes, I wish I I had the time to fix the little bugs and to adapt it to Android but it is too much of a work for an hobbyist with many trees. Anyone out...
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    Japanese Maple Field Growing Progression Thread

    https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/uneventfull-yet-progression-of-a-japanse-mapple.45536/ https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/almost-30-and-not-a-bonsai-yet.45510/
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    Trident maple seeds EU

    I have just bought some from Maillot bonsai and https://www.grainesdefolie.com Don't know what they are worth, though.
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    JBP Roots

    Empiricism rules. As I always wash pine roots (like any other tree), never add mycelium, as the trees don't die and as they are usually full of mycorhizae a few month later, I do think that your supposition that mycorhizae should stay functional for the tree to survive is wrong. BTW, almost any...
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    JBP Roots

    Not a problem. Fungus are micro-organisms. If washing surfaces with plenty of water were a way to get rid of micro-organisms, asepsis in hospitals would be far easier.
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    Suggested Bonsai Idea Virus.

    This rule doesn't take in consideration the interest and the pleasure one can have by making bonsai from A to somewhere on the way to Z.
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    Jpb 20 year progression (with errors inside)

    2009: the effect of the first error is plainly visible : there is an conicity inversion. Quite put out, I stopped taking pictures of it and started waiting that the neagari's growth absorb the inverse conicity. 2021: the conicity problem is mostly resolved. The needles are a little bit far...
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    Jpb 20 year progression (with errors inside)

    2005 repot and another error: big roots should have been trimmed shorter. The first error already begins to show its effect.
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    Jpb 20 year progression (with errors inside)

    This is a jpb grown from seed taken from my parent neighbor backyard, sown in spring 2001. It has been grown exclusively in a pot, never bigger than 20 liters. 2004 and already 2 errors : first curve is softer than second's no need to trim the apex and primary branches should have been cut shorter
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    JBP Roots

    The first one is really bare-rooted : it has no more substrate between the fine roots. I stand corrected for the second one. Are these two ones more to your liking ?
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    JBP Roots

    I always bare-root my pines when repotting. Small one big one :
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    Acer Palmatum

    The picture of the roots are after or before root trim ?
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    Telperion Pinus sylvestris progression

    Approach grafts are very easy and work well on pines. This wonderful base does deserve needles closer to the trunk!
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    Bjorn's You Tube VS Web Page Single Flush Pine Advice

    I have never seen the case either when you trim back to year n growth during September or October of the same n year. I have seen losses of branches only when I cut back to n-1 or n-2 growth. You can even trim back during winter, the new buds will be formed at the beginning of the next spring...
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    Yew for sale in Europe

    I sell a big yew in Europe. 500 € + shipping. The tree has been in a grow box for 5 years. Pictures at http://alainbe.free.fr/if_gal/index.html Can bring it myself in the Brittany facing part of England.
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    Rhyolite = Pumice ???

    Rhyolite is the volcanic equivalent of granite. In the scale of size and time of a bonsai pot, it is completely neutral from a chemical point of view. Simply, if you use crushed rhyolite, you'll probably got a low porosity of about 30 % and a high density which usually are not considered as...
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    Why do the Japanese grow their stock to take very long

    I guess she adapts herself with the new trends of (declining) Japanese bonsai market. With this way of growing, she invest very little manpower hours per tree, yet she may be able to sell them for at least 2000 yens maybe more because hers have an older looking bark than most. She makes probably...
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    Japanese larch progression

    Beware of larch cuttings: they grow with a bottom dominant pattern. That what I have observed with a larch I have obtained from a cutting and it has been confirmed by a researcher in forestry. That is also why for forestry larch is not propagated by cuttings.
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    Some photos from Japan

    Most of the farm areas I know in Japan look like that. I don't know northern Japan though.
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    What will happen to your bonsai when you die?

    I look after my mother's trees. It seems that my son is eager to take good care of hers and mine.
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    Scots pine - height reduction

    Be careful to root rot if you further reduce it without repotting.
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    deal on osmocote

    It should be written on the bag. For the one I use, 8/9 months, they say 5-6 grams per liter of substrate for max fertilization.
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