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  1. Shima

    Bleeding Satsuki

    Satsuki are bleeding and cut paste doesn't help. This is the first time this has happened. Top jin and kiyonal don't stop the bleeding. I blot and re-apply but it just stay's wet. What to do?
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    Monster 2 person ficus re pot.

    It all has to come down. At sea level it was pristine white but now at 1300' there's this black glop. Ugh. I don't even like ficus's that much but...told my student, "if you don't buy this were going to have a serious discussion."
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    Ohi'a Lehua yamadori

    I let this Ohi'a Lehua grow wild for a bit so she could display her liko. http://hawaiianforest.com/wp/liko-lehua-the-young-leaves-of-ohia-lehua/ About 250-300 years.
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    Willow-leaf ficus all wired up...

    Willow leaf ficus wired up. Before and after. Black stuff was not a problem 'till it moved from sea level to 1200 feet and a lot more rain. So far nothing works to remove it. Any ideas?
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    Massive jaboticaba yoseue...

    I talked my student into buying this jaboticaba group during the sale of a large collection here in Hilo. It had run amok and was so intimidating and heavy none of the others stepped up to the plate. I guess I wanted to insure I'd be busy for the rest of my life, like there wasn't already enough...
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    Variegated ficus microcarpa

    Wondering if anyone knows if variegated ficus microcarpa will back bud on bare wood. Major reduction on fat straight branches and trunk.
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    Growing in un-screened cinder?

    I have a student who refuses to buy or make screened cinder. He thinks his extensive collection will be fine in it. A very temperate climate here in Hawaii with lots of rain and no extremes. I'm in disbelief and considering giving him the boot. Sure, roots will fill the bottom of the container...
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    Ficus pumila

    I sold this ficus pumila to my apprentice and left the island for almost a year. Now I'm home again and the ficus has lost all inner leaves and only has leaves at the tips. It's never back budded for me and I hope it's not too late. Anyone have experience with back budding? I'll slip pot into a...
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    Satsuki Hatsu Kansetsu Neagari

    This one usually flowers sporadically, well, they all do here at high altitudes in the islands. Otherwise, they stay really healthy. This is the most flowers at one time since I've had it. Also, they're lasting longer than ever before. Last year I over-potted it, I guess it liked it. But that...
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    A little gingko

    A Ginkgo biloba. Pot by local club member Edith Sakamoto. Edith has "the touch."
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    Ficus, in spite of myself

    I've never had a thing for ficus. No one in my old club (REBS) had them and they were never in shows up to when I moved in 93. Now there are a few but they still don't do much for me. Now, 4,000 feet down hill from me it's the tropics and they're all over the place. Recently, an old friend with...
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    DR Bonsai tables

    Came across this maker on FB. Interesting work I think. DR Bonsai tables
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    Callistemon defoliation. Should I do it?

    I've watched this Callistemon decline along with almost everything else in this cold, wet inhospitable clime for years. It's never bloomed but I've cut it back hard each year and been rewarded with lush new growth, but no flowers. I'm ok with this but now I'm wondering what will happen if I just...
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    Bugs 'n eggs.

    Every year about this time tight lumps of these eggs show up on trunks of maple and pyracantha. First time I've seen the worm looking things. Anyone know what they are?
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    Anyone in Northern California?

    It's on fire! Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino county. The road I lived on in Glen Ellen is burning! The wine will be smoky this year! http://www.calfire.ca.gov/general/firemaps https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/10/us/california-fires-maps-photos.html
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    A peek through the greenhouse window

    and a table out back with collected ground-layered ohi'a finally out of large terracotta pots into bonsai pots. The old blue pot is a style I've not seen before and the round dark one was made by Ron Hanatani who lives up the road and in Japan. The azalea is a layer I did last summer and...
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    Mostly just rocks

    But some suiseki to keep it legal. I rummaged around the lava pile today. There's so many here, I mean, it's all rock, (lava) so I'm kinda blase' about it.
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    Fungus?

    I think this is a well known problem but I've never had to deal with it before so what is it? Bruce
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    Registered tree offender

    Not in my neighborhood!
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    It's too easy...

    Go next door. Pick up moss ball. Plop on thing....Kokedama kusamono. (Moss ball, grass thing)
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    Just born

    A baby fern appeared in the cave of this old Ohi'a. (Metrosideros polymorpha) New life, moist and fragile. Wabi...
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    Pyracantha problem

    I've had this pyracantha a long time and it's never had a problem. Now in the last few months it will drop leaves overnight. They turn brown at the tip and in no time are all brown. It seems to sweep through like the plague and in between it recovers and the leaves are fine. I've plucked about...
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    A well behaved azalea

    This little thing seems to more or less style itself. First 2 shots from 2 years ago in a Yamafusa oribe (green) but it was getting too tight so just I just slid it into this Shibakatsu cream number. I hack it back now and then and it responds without fail into something I can live with.
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    Jaboticaba harvest time...

    Jabotibaca harvest time! I'll be doing some air/layers on interesting branches soon. The fruit makes great wine. With the weather changing up here I'm hoping they will survive. 20 years ago they didn't but now there's more control thanks to a large rain shelter.
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    A very tiny flower.

    I googled tiny flower but didn't see this one. I saw one flower peeking out from under a rock, picked up the rock and there were a few leaves. So I brought it home and coddled it and Bob's your uncle. I cut it back wanting it to flower in a compact way but it insists on extending way out before...
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