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I think the one scenario no one is considering is what happens when the AI bots have downloaded and regurgitated the entire Internet? Pretty soon the only way to "source" more information is for AI to start referring to (and quoting) other AI. It is one thing when you are building and training...

Getting back to @leatherback image of the teachers protesting against calculator use... Calculators are a tool. You cannot use a calculator to do math, unless you understand the underlying math - similar to how I can't do statistics using Excel unless I understand statistics. AI is a great...

I wonder what BonsaiEmpire thinks about your chatbot stealing and reposting all of their intellectual property? I certainly don't remember it asking me for permission to take content from this site and republish it as its own - while selling ads and earning revenue by doing so. Note also the...

Funny story... I rented a little cabin in the woods a few weeks back. Imagine my surprise when, on the day I was going to drive to the cabin, I found that three out of the four roads leading to the cabin were closed due to rain damage (from a hurricane that occurred over a year ago). There...

I keep most of my shimpakus in 100% pumice and they do fine. The key is to make sure they are getting enough fertilizer.

ChatGPT mines information from the Internet, and then repackages it as its own intellectual property. It isn't "thinking" it is copying other peoples' work.

The winners of the contest are: @Dav4 1st place – Carbon Steel Satsuki Scissors @dlqfpv 2nd Place – Triangle Carving Chisel @BrianBay9 3rd Place – Sap and Rust Eraser I am sending all the winners a private message to request names, addresses and mobile numbers so Wazakura can send you your...

We had an unusually hot and dry summer here in NC. Many of my JM got scorched, and some are throwing out a few late leaves. Don't worry about it - just let nature do its thing.

I have a ryusen in a landscape planter on our back deck, and it has not begun to turn yet. However our fall has been pretty sad as well - very warm and dry and colors quite muted.

They can... though I'm not sure why you'd want to have a dimmer feature. Just remember that light diminishes based on the square from the source. In other words, some of these lights provide data based on a light meter being very close to the light. You will probably want "real world"...

So would I. The last software official release was July, 2025, and they tend to release updates every 5-6 months, so we are due. They do not post "expected release dates" for any of their software products.

Yeah, I don't worry about cold frames or any winter protection (for my cold hardy trees) until a hard freeze - which for me is somewhere under 26F low at night. It needs to get at least that cold for there to be a risk of unprotected pots freezing. Remember trees go into dormancy slowly, and...

I leave all leaves on until they fall naturally, particularly if they aren't done turning color for the fall. If the leaves still have some green in them, there is a chance the tree isn't done absorbing all the chlorophyll and other nutrients from the leaf. Best case you are robbing the tree...

The contest is CLOSED to further entrants. The only rule is to enter a haiku. We do not judge based on content, or for that matter, whether the haiku entered is even 100% correct form. The winners are chosen randomly from the pool of entries - each person gets one chance to win regardless of...

Are you sure your plumeria isn't just dropping leaves for the fall?

I've got Chinese privet in my landscape - planted years ago. It will spread if you don't stay on top of it. Not as bad as Bradford pear... but then again nothing is :) It certainly doesn't need any winter protection here.

Don't forget to stretch your poetic muscle and enter the Fall Haiku Contest! Three winners chosen at random from among all entries - and a chance to win great Wazakura tools! Here is the CONTEST THREAD

Too dry for too long the leaves give up on the year Spots of color blow

Jade plants are succulents - ie cacti. They love hot, dry conditions, and intense sun. The more you move away from this (humid, cool, dark) the less they will like it. One reason why cacti do moderately well in many indoor setups is that most houses are already warm and very dry. All you...

I put it down to looking at the most negative aspect - of anything - and condemning the rule because of the exceptions. I have seen California junipers irresponsibly taken from the high desert in SoCal because people thought they could flip them for a fast buck. Most died. I condemn the...

If you are like me, and really tired of Internet AI being shoved down your throat by search engines, a simple workaround is to type "-AI" at the end of your search phrase. Searching the term "bonsai" in Google creates a huge AI dump of information that you don't care about. "bonsai -AI" and...

"It just so happens that your tree here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive." (Apologies "The Princess Bride") What you have here is a grafted Japanese maple whose graft has failed. The cultivar above the rootstock has...

Adding to the above statement... people protect what they care about. They care about things that they have a personal connection to. Getting people interested in bonsai, topiary, gardening, landscaping, etc, will create a love for national forests, parks, botanic gardens - and dare I say it -...

I believe in conservation and sustainability practices - as in "wise use of". Removing trees from natural spaces until the space is completely denuded is not "wise use". However if I owned 100 acres of bald cypress swamp, I can guarantee you there would be ways that I could sustainably harvest...

It is software related. The "attach files" button strips out the rotational data in the image file. It is going to be fixed in the next software patch. (More technical description: When you take a picture, rotational data is stored as a metadata tag called EXIF orientation. Your phone or...