just.wing.it
Deadwood Head
Good to hear!I've had one not wake up until mid June before
Whaaaaaaat!?!?!I've started working the roots on mine in the summer
Good to hear!I've had one not wake up until mid June before
Whaaaaaaat!?!?!I've started working the roots on mine in the summer
Good to hear!
Whaaaaaaat!?!?!
Wow!Haha. Yeah, I've chopped and root pruned fully leafed out trees in June and July and they do fine. Zach Smith calls them super rooters which I think is pretty accurate and I expect that has something to do with it. I know mine fill a pot with roots in less than a year.
Yeah, I've often considered the coco fiber mats, especially when birds dig in my sphagnum....Damnnnn, roots and nebari lookin gooood!!! This thing is going to be killer!
I hope the one I got from @VAFisher looks this good when it's time to repot, I bet it will!
I've been keeping a coco fiber mat over the soil surface to help keep it saturated longer. It's helping, I've seen a lot of fine surface roots growing since putting it on.
I'll keep that in mind when I repot again, and look for dead roots.@just.wing.it & @theta
What do you think the dieback is from, just the old cuts dying back further down the trunk?
Or are you guys noticing anything with the root systems that could parallel above ground cuts?
When I did the original hacking on mine, it had 4 main trunks and I removed 2.Just picked up another crape bonsai from VAFisher (that'll be 2 "proper" bonsai I have now) and just wondering if there's anything in particular I should look out for. The first one I got from him only needs/needed a little tweaking and maintenance, but I'm thinking about a possibly substantial redesign for my new one. There may be some major hacking in it's future