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Just make sure you buy special cultivars, or something that isn't broadly available. Don't waste the money buying a bloodgood, crimson queen, etc, that you could probably find at your local Lowes/Home Depot.

In a nutshell, the nursery trade sells trees based on pot size, because the practice is usually correlated with age of stock, and cost invested. In other words, 1 gallon pots until three years, 3 gallon pots until five years, or whatever. It is only the roughest of rough guidelines. You can...

Well the good news is that it was only a pot, and not a medical diagnosis :)

Agreed. I wouldn't touch a pot with a crack.

Folks... we're talking about a bald cypress seedling here. I think the OP was pretty open about saying it was a seedling in a handmade pot. If you are interested, make an offer. If not, perhaps provide some constructive criticism and move on. I'm not sure why people are getting so worked up...

Japanese maples go into and come out of winter dormancy slowly. Once they are fully dormant, just set them on the ground and mulch around the pots. Make sure they remain moist (but not soaking wet). If you are about to have a cold winter storm it helps to water them prior to the cold front...

Japanese maples in the Inland Empire? A tough task. I couldn't even keep them in the OC close to the coast.

Would it be possible to share some photos?

No, but they are on a long bench in front of a sunny SE facing window.

It has Japanese white pine bark all the way down to the soil line.

In Zone 8a I bring mine in any time there is a threat of frost at night. Right now they are still outside and it appears we will continue to have mild weather at least through the 27th. In prior years I've been bringing them in somewhere around mid-December (for the duration of the winter)...

I want to second this comment. When you repot a juniper it seems to take a year to get re-established. For the first year year it will sit and look healthy, but it doesn't really start to throw new foliage extensions until year two. If you repot every year, your junipers may never really take...

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.

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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...