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[Deep Sea Diver]

SAM Hokusai 2.









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A couple non Hokusai works….



…and Hammering Man!


Hope you enjoyed your visit!

cheers
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[PaulH]

This is a cork bark JBP. I think it's Jay McDonald's.

Great seeing you! That pine belongs to Rick Trumm.

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Driving through a familiar neighborhood across town, this beauty caught my eye. Spooky silhouette

Spookier version;

 

[Kievnstavick]

I sifted a big bag of vermiculite for my seed trays today. I meant to get the seeds planted, but after all that work I just wanted to wrap-up the night. Maybe tomorrow before work (or after work if I sleep in).

I then checked my indoor seed trays for changes and was happy to see quite a few. A Korean Fir is poking its head out of the sphagnum moss. This was from the batch of floaters that I didn't really expect growth from as it is in the tray with my Korean Hornbeams which should be making the transition to outdoors in the next couple of days for cold stratification. So now I need to figure out if I want to just leave the germinated Korean Firs in of the last of winter or replant them and leave whatever grows inside until spring.



In the bottom right section of this tray is Sitka Spruce and were the last to start germinating. The bottom left contains Coast Redwoods that started germinating a couple days ago. Middle area is Casuarina equisetifolia aka She-Oak that popped up sometime last week. All but one of my monkey-ear trees are doing great. The one had its cotyledon die off early, but it is still growing the first set of true leaves. Time will soon tell if will dampen off or not.




Next on my to-do list (for tomorrow or the following day):
Plant the seeds that I currently have soaking
Clean out one of my grow tents (two of my Albizia saman and my Baobabs didn't like how cold it got and dropped quite a few leaves)
Reorganize my other grow tent + take an update picture of my Schefflera

 

[Damart81]

I stripped off the few remaining leaves on my biggest bald cypress and pruned it back for better taper. Newbies (and some veterans) cringe at taking off so much growth, but it's necessary for the nice tapering of branches. This tree has seen 2 growing seasons from collection. Collected with a completely bare stump. Now, I'm off to do a bit of wiring on it.

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When pruning BC branches to the trunk to completely remove a branch, what type of cutter do you use, concave?

 

[ZombieNick]

I dug up this JBP and did some clean up of the old/dead needles:

 

[19Mateo83]

This isn’t bonsai but why not.
I butchered three Boston butts for breakfast sausage. I catch butts when they are on sale for $.99/lb. My recipe makes way better breakfast sausage than you can buy in the store. It’s leaner and has less sodium. I buy my spices in bulk but once you have the all the spices it costs about $1.10-1.25 a lb. Here’s the recipe if anyone is interested, just extrapolate to the poundage. I cut the salt in half.

I cube up the pork and marinade it in over night before I grind it and weigh it out in 1lb packs.

And… I don’t waste anything. The bones get roasted for soup bones.

 

[David P]

Today I wired my pomegranate to look like a wind swept tree since it didn’t have many branches on the right. What do you guys think?

 

[19Mateo83]

In the spirit of my 2024 bonsai goals (growing affordable material) I started a tub full of BC starters in grow bags. The triples are threaded through a soup can lid to make radial roots and the doubles have a wire tourniquet around their roots. I’m planning on heavily fertilizing them this year so they bulk up and develop nice root systems.

I will also be doing the same with trident maples as well.

 

[dmwphoto]

Today I wired my pomegranate to look like a wind swept tree since it didn’t have many branches on the right. What do you guys think?View attachment 525324View attachment 525325

looks very nice. I think you accomplished what you set out to do.

 

[Hack Yeah!]

Starting a few repots this weekend.
Procumbems, yaupon and kingsville

 

[Deleted member 47471]

Today I wired my pomegranate to look like a wind swept tree since it didn’t have many branches on the right. What do you guys think?View attachment 525324View attachment 525325

Today I wired my pomegranate to look like a wind swept tree since it didn’t have many branches on the right. What do you guys think?View attachment 525324View attachment 525325

I’m learning about windswept and yours looks great. I might apply this style to by Bird’s Near Spruce:

 

[broken_branch]

My seeds arrived

Super stoked can't wait to start planting

 

[Carol 83]

This isn’t bonsai but why not.
I butchered three Boston butts for breakfast sausage. I catch butts when they are on sale for $.99/lb. My recipe makes way better breakfast sausage than you can buy in the store. It’s leaner and has less sodium. I buy my spices in bulk but once you have the all the spices it costs about $1.10-1.25 a lb. Here’s the recipe if anyone is interested, just extrapolate to the poundage. I cut the salt in half.
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I cube up the pork and marinade it in over night before I grind it and weigh it out in 1lb packs.
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And… I don’t waste anything. The bones get roasted for soup bones.
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My Grandpa and my dad were both butchers, so I was spoiled with good sausage. So hard to find now. Good for you for making your own. No mustard seed?

 

[Adamski77]

This isn’t bonsai but why not.
I butchered three Boston butts for breakfast sausage. I catch butts when they are on sale for $.99/lb. My recipe makes way better breakfast sausage than you can buy in the store. It’s leaner and has less sodium. I buy my spices in bulk but once you have the all the spices it costs about $1.10-1.25 a lb. Here’s the recipe if anyone is interested, just extrapolate to the poundage. I cut the salt in half.
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I cube up the pork and marinade it in over night before I grind it and weigh it out in 1lb packs.
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And… I don’t waste anything. The bones get roasted for soup bones.
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hell no... you motivated me! This weekend I'm pulling out my stuff... let's see if I still remember. Similar to @Carol 83 when I was a kid I had my mum working in butchery so even when times were very tough in Poland, I did have a lot of good stuff... and I have to tell you Polish sausage is really something.
A while ago my parents gifted me a meat grinder and recipe... rest I can buy here in China. I'm gooooooooing for it!!!!

Sometimes non-bonsai post gives a lot of motivation too. Thank you!

 

[shohin_branches]

Took a little more than a day. Cleaned up, tuckpointed the crumbling morter in the wall of my basement, then painted it. I still need to make a better top on my repotting station and some shelves for the wall. After that the plan is to build a rack to hold all the substrate buckets so I don't have to keep re-stacking them. Might need to get another order of pumice before repotting season. At least I won't have dirty block walls in the background of my bonsai photos now. Old houses are a lot of work

 

[Adamski77]

Took a little more than a day. Cleaned up, tuckpointed the crumbling morter in the wall of my basement, then painted it. I still need to make a better top on my repotting station and some shelves for the wall. After that the plan is to build a rack to hold all the substrate buckets so I don't have to keep re-stacking them. Might need to get another order of pumice before repotting season. At least I won't have dirty block walls in the background of my bonsai photos now. Old houses are a lot of work
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tidy cats are looking neat my friend

... another great idea I'm going to steal (shamelessly)

 

[shohin_branches]

tidy cats are looking neat my friend

... another great idea I'm going to steal (shamelessly)

They were hard to acquire once I no longer had a cat so I put a few requests out for them on my neighborhood 'Buy Nothing' page last spring. Someone showed up with a stack of 18! They were so happy to be rid of them they even delivered the bins. The rest went to my buddy Ron who makes his own soil mixes and sells them in the tidy cat buckets.

 

[19Mateo83]

My Grandpa and my dad were both butchers, so I was spoiled with good sausage. So hard to find now. Good for you for making your own. No mustard seed?

The sage and mustard seed don’t play nice together in breakfast sausage… but… sausage on a biscuit with mustard…. Now we’re talking

 

[pandacular]

Got some help revising my wiring on this mountain hemlock. The upper apex still needs a bit more work (and a lot more growth!) but i’m stoked about the lower two.