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  1. PaulH

    Scotch / Irish moss as ground cover for BCs?

    one of the two nastiest weeds in your bonsai, Irish mos and oxalis corniculata. kill them on sight!
  2. PaulH

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    Built another Dawn redwood forest for my friend Dylan with 21 of his field grown trees.
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    Helped my friend Scott make a large forest composition with his dawn redwoods.
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    Dug up and potted 13 yardadori boxwoods.
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    Repotted and worked on my friend's interior live oak and itoigawas on rock yesterday.
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    repotted my green Atlas Cedar in to a yamaaki pot. 61st repot this season and hopefully the last.
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    stewartia monadelpha - in development

    Nice. I got one from Dylan too. He grows great trees!
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    Brand new and overzealous!!!

    Welcome and special congratulations on joining a bonsai club. That should be your best source of information on bonsai suitable for your area as well as technique to create and maintain good trees. If your club offers workshops try to attend them all as well as any bonsai shows you can get to...
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    The 2024 Yamadori/Collecting Thread

    I seldom, if ever try to leave native soil on collected trees of any species with a couple of exceptions. Trees growing in pure pumice like the soil at Mammoth, CA can be planted directly in 100% native soil. Also trees growing in heavy, nutrient poor soil like those from California's pygmy...
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    The 2024 Yamadori/Collecting Thread

    Do not trim foliage on junipers! As the tree recovers it will self abort some foliage. In fact that's the first sign it might live. Keep it in semi shade, mist regularly but don't let the soil get too wet. The soil should be moist but not wet. I cover the soil with plastic. Good luck!
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    Thread grafted roots onto a trident to build nebari.
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    Defoliated and repotted my Portuguese oak.
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    Repotted several trees including upgrading my Nishiki black pine to this nice Yamaaki Kataoka signed pot.
  14. PaulH

    ABAS 64th annual Spring Show and Sale!

    Mark your calendars. This is always a great show with lots of vendors and member sales.
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    Put my chuhin Sierra juniper in a seizan pot.
  16. PaulH

    Sharps Pygmy #1

    I have one I bought at a local big box nursery a couple years ago. Last year I air layered above the graft and it grew great roots and I was able to separate it last fall. Its almost ready to bud out now.
  17. PaulH

    Air Layer, before or after leaf hardening?

    My experience with oaks is that they produce a huge callus but very seldom get roots.
  18. PaulH

    New Bonsai Nursery

    I'm lucky to live a few miles from Cedar Rose and have spent most of my bonsai allowance there lately.
  19. PaulH

    I got some 8 gauge copper wire at Home Depot that says it’s already annealed, but I’m having incredible difficulty bending it.

    There's no way wire from Home Depot is properly annealed for bonsai. Order some good wire from ptbonsai.com
  20. PaulH

    NY’s Stewartia Thread

    Cedar Rose is great and fills a need for good field grown pre bonsai. Dylan has studied bonsai and is a great horticulturist. I also got a Stewartia, A Japanese Styrax, And a Taiwan Styrax from him. I'm lucky he is just a few miles from me. You have to act fast as his trees seem to sell as soon...
  21. PaulH

    Live Oak bonsai?

    I've got a few..
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    High winds this week blew my flowering pomegranate off the table and broke the pot. repotted today....
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    Keep the soil on the dry side but mist the foliage every four hours minimum. Keep it in filtered sun.
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    put my big Jeffrey pine, "El Jefe" in a pot.
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    Repotted my princess persimmon, two Utah Junipers and this little Hokkaido elm. I hated the three trunk symmetry so I removed the left trunk and gave the tree a Sara Rayner pot.
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