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Looks like there are a few methods for success. I like the pond basket idea, let the roots escape then trim in the fall. I have 4 ficus, 2 about the same. Maybe ill just experiment. 1 planted on a tile and repotted every year. 1 put in a buried pond basket, pulled, and trimmed.

I just built a monster raised garden bed for growing out bonsai. I have a plan to plant my ficus trees every spring and dig up in the fall, pot, and grow inside over the winter. I have a grow area in my basement. I live in ND so I get about 4 months outside time for my ficus. Anybody have...

so Just for fun last year I tried to air layer a 3" diameter lilac just to see if it would work. At the end of the summer i chopped it off the mother tree and threw it in a pot. The tree looked pretty weak and i figured it was a bust so i basically forgot about it. Well winter came and now its...

here are the 2 maples i have http://imageshack.com/a/img843/831/thcc.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img843/7993/9l2tx.jpg kind of hard to see because life is just starting to take hold but they are mostly trunks with little branching.

I took some pics tonight but the look like garbage so I will get some before work tomorrow

The branch idea is a good one. That could be in the future. Maybe instead of chopping it I could use it as a parent plant. I like the idea though of having immediate 1-3" trunks

Might not work then. It has plenty of branches at the top but none down the rest of the tree. But there is a lot of back budding down the trunk. Maybe it could be a 2 year project. 1 layer this year, let the buds grow and do 3 more next year.

I have a 10 foot tall Amur maple that looks grafted and was in the dying section of the nursery. Tree got a little tlc and is now in pretty good shape. The base is about 3" the apex which I already chopped to fit on my SUV is 1". I'd like to "part it out" and do some air layers to get multiple...

well i put the 3 together. I cut the roots where they meet and electric taped them together. Actually was pretty easy and matched up pretty good. Now to wait. Ill post a pic after work.

Broom is what I kind of had in mind for that one. I cant decide if I should keep the broken side branch or not. I kind of like the Non-perfect style of trees.

Ya that's what i figured. Might just have to create another growing contraption

3 are from the same, 4th one is not. So ill prob just do the 3 which will still give me a good kickstart. second part to this question while I have Ryan chiming in. My setup is trees outside in the summer and back indoors in the winter in my basement. I have a 4Lx4Hx2D frame I have it wrapped...

ya, thats a GREAT idea. I wouldn't be able to do the steel cage method (read your thread Ryan, very cool) but maybe just wrapping them together would work. With ficus do i need to peel the bark where they meet or will they just fuse? thanks guys

a few of my trees at their ugly stage. pic 1 will not make a proportional bonsai. The trunk is too thin. I have about 3 more trees with a trunk this size that im growing out. This is my "practice ramification" tree. Pic 2 is a walmart ficus sold as bonsai with the glued rocks. I re-potted last...

well i left the tank in the garage for now (one step at a time) I put 4 sticks in each corner and now I have a tent over the whole thing. Because the plastic drapes there are small openings where it hangs so that will help "dry" the air up a bit. Before there was so much moisture that the...

Ya its VERY humid in there. I think I will try lifting the plastic sheet up and possibly popping a few small holes in to cut down on the humidity. I can always mist if the leaves start to droop. reason I pruned the one is it started to touch the plastic and mold. Sounds like I should have...

I trunk chopped a pin oak and cut up all of the remaining pieces for cuttings they range from pencil thick to an inch. I took the cuttings in May. I made a batch of sterile soil 10% organic 90% napa floor dry. I put them all in a 20 gal long fish tank in my garage by the window and covered with...

Home Depot plant that was air layered and failed. Then tried again lower down and worked (how I got this one) I then watched Gram Potter carve some amazing looking trees and wanted to take a stab at that and that's where the 2 big scars came from. I finally decided to chop it down after it...

I understand in final bonsai pots we want to use either 100% inorganic or like a 80/20 mix with organics bark chips. My question is regarding growing out stock in big grow pots to chop and start initial styling before refinement in a small pot. I have chickens which produce...well...poop...

I think the photo thing has to do with uploading from phones. It loaded right side up and once it was attached it was on its side????? I will wait on the Pin Oak and Cut the new growth back in hopes that the lower bud will gain some strength then do the final chop next spring. The elm has...

Should I rechop the pin oak about an inch above the bud I want as my new leader to force the energy there instead of the top branches?

Pin oak trunk chop. Branches sprouted too high. There is a bud about 1/2 way down from the chop I plan on choosing for the new leader

The Amur maple that is being ground layered above the graft.

My American elm. No graft trunk chopped. Has reverse taper and I'm hoping with the chop I can get a bud to sprout benieth it an make that the new leader.