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Be careful with totes... I could see them staying over-wet, or getting too hot on a sunny day.

No... but I am by no means an expert. I used to have these in landscape in SoCal and they would put up with any abuse I would throw at them. Now in NC I only have a couple.. and with the largest I wait until early summer when it is really strong, and then I defoliate and wire and let it...

Yes. Cut the leaves off, do not pull them.

LOL!

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Invite the local bonsai club over to style your tree in exchange for free cuttings :)

Get it strong, and next year in early summer defoliate it. You will cut your leaf size by 50% and generate tons of back buds.

If it were my tree, I wouldn't. I think it has interesting, unique lines. It looks very naturalistic to me - not just the same old cookie-cutter twin trunk. You just need age and refinement. You might want to lean the first trunk out a little bit to increase the spacing between it and the...

It's quite a drive.... :)

Interestingly, I was just at the Mr Maple open house and they were selling pretty decent sized ones (18" - 24") in 5 gallon pots. Someone grabbed about ten of them :) I got mine as a gift from another bonsai enthusiast who was like "here take one and mess around with it and see how it goes" :)...

I have a little one of these guys to play around with, and it did not do really well until I completely transplanted it out of organic soil and got it into a decent bonsai soil mix (pumice/lava/akadama). By their very nature, they are dwarfs and don't grow that fast, but I would agree with...

They taste really sweet... with a texture like a soft peach. If the fruit were lower to the ground, I would pick some for cooking. But right now the female that bears the most fruit bears it very high in the branches. The tree is around 60' tall.

Not at the moment. It was more of a general comment. We have deer everywhere, so I don't need another reason for them to come close to the house :) I am hoping to find enough females that I can try to trunk chop a few to see how they respond, and whether it impacts flowering and fruiting...

Thought I'd start a thread on my journey to try to locate a decent female American Persimmon. I went from assuming that we didn't have any on our property to eventually locating three females and quite a few males. Very hard to capture pictures because the females are large trees - which is...

Not that I am aware of. This year I noted that heavily fertilizing with MiracleGro water soluble appears to trigger flowering - even in the off-season. Whether that is a good thing or not is still to be determined (for example, if the trees that flower in the fall bear any fruit and/or if they...

I'd have to check my charts but the tree was germinated in either 2020 or 2021, so four or five years from seed. These are all in 1 gallon pots, so perhaps you'd get better results in a larger pot or in the ground.

Like a proud mom... my first ever female from seed.

Check out photos for Hollywood juniper... aka J. chinensis 'kaizuka'... aka J. chinensis 'Hollywood'... aka J. chinensis 'torulosa'. They are supposed to be the same cultivar, but the name has changed over the years. It is the largest of the Chinese juniper cultivars.

That is probably the nicest one of these trees I've ever seen :) They sell them commonly here in the US. They are usually Ficus microcarpa... ie they have no relation to the ginseng plant. They are called ginseng because they are developed to have swollen bulbous roots that are reminiscent of...

No kidding! I think there is a lot of conflicting information about some of these cultivars, and I don't doubt that there is some confusion in nurseries as well. I see parsonii all the time here on the east coast, but no San Jose. It was the exact opposite on the west coast. It would not...

It looks fantastic right now... my only question will be what the pruning scar looks like in the middle of the tree. If the scar doesn't exist, or is mostly healed over, that's a great tree!

For the record, parsonii IS a chinensis variety. Otherwise, carry on :)

Well that simplifies things :) That is not a J. communis. It is some type of J. chinensis - possibly J. chinensis 'San Jose'. These trees will sometimes revert to juvenile foliage when they are heavily pruned or repotted. If there is a 'secret' to keeping the mature foliage, it is to not mess...

Watering damage would be universal. This damage is very specific - with some branches showing both strong healthy growth and browning. If I had to guess, it's wiring damage. No worries - the tree itself looks healthy - just let it alone to recover.

Do you have any photos? And just to confirm - are you talking about J. communis? I did a search on J. communalis and didn't find anything. J. communis is a needle juniper, so I'm not sure what you are referring to with mature versus juvenile foliage.