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Send an email to stevenzeisel@pb08.wixemails.com. As of Monday he still had six tickets.

This is an excellent example of how, without doing anything crazy, a nice tree will naturally mellow and age with time.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!!

I've never heard anything about cinnamon being anti-fungal :) But one thing that IS anti-fungal is sphagnum moss. After I soak my seeds in the H2O2 solution overnight, I put them in a bag with slightly damp (not wet) sphagnum moss - ie moss that has been soaked in water and then squeezed as...

I can't really complain because we had a mild November... until the last week. We are now running seven days straight of temps that are 10 degrees or more below average for this time of year.

Yes... it is a Chinese juniper. Juniperus chinensis 'Kaizuka' (originally). Many were planted throughout Southern California landscape - so many, in fact, that people started calling them "Hollywood junipers" because they were quite common throughout Hollywood. Now many east coast nurseries...

Agree with this comment. Yes they get juvenile foliage, but they are very quick to lose it. You really have to cut them back hard to get them to throw needle foliage. FWIW the original name for the Hollywood juniper is "Kaizuka". There are quite a few nurseries that still sell it by this name.

I have a large walk-out basement area with double doors that lead directly to my bonsai shelves. I like having access to the heat in the winter, or the A/C in the summer. Some of the features: Plenty of shelving for pots / tools / chemicals. Three garbage cans on wheels that are full of soil...

Junipers take a while to recover from being repotted. They may pout for six months or a year before their growth takes off. However I don't see anything concerning with your tree. Don't forget - junipers will often change color in winter, going from a deep vibrant green to a greyish flat...

I would actually suggest the exact opposite. They grow for online retail customers only - and their stock is relatively expensive. I know two retail Japanese maple nurseries within an hour or two of Mr. Maple and they offer trees as good, if not better, at lower (in some cases much lower)...

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...