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    Flowers 2024

    Bougie
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    Who is using LED grow panels?

    If you look at the sorting menu bar at the top it says “average power draw” not equivalent lighting. The P2000 is 240 watts. ???????
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    Who is using LED grow panels?

    I’ve been threatening to change over to LED from T5 Ho. I don’t see much of a power savings….the LED 240 watts compared to my 4 bulb T5, that are 216 watts. Am I reading this wrong?
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    Hand me down Elaeagnus

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    Bay Tree?

    This just got a fairly hard cutback and partial defoliation. Trying to get it opened up for inner growth. The leaf are really starting to reduce and back-budding is vigorous. More leaves will be removed once the buds start pushing.
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    Winter Hazel

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    Plectranthus....whats that?

    Thanks leatherback! This really doesn't take a lot of time. I might spend three hours a year on it. No wiring, clip and grow. No repotting......this has only been repotted once in 9 years and only because I wanted to change the pot it was in. Their fun 'cause they trunk up so fast.
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    Witch hazel ground layer

    Time for the big cut! Once out of the pot I removed some of the larger roots to lighten the load and so I could split the cement with a hammer. After busting off the cement you can see where the girdle was covered to prevent bridging and how the new roots were segregated from the old root...
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    Plectranthus....whats that?

    Spring pruning........there wasn't very much to do. No winter flowers to cut off. Looking back at last years mishap which broke a large lower branch off, it's amazing to see how fast this plant can regenerate. The arrows in the photos show the beginning of the new branch and one year later. I...
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    Witch hazel ground layer

    With all this rollie coaster weather we've been having has started the flowers to decline. This is a sign the tree is waking up. I've poked around in the ground layer and there is definitely roots in there, so I decided to do the big cutback and get things started. I probably won't separate it...
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    Winter Hazel

    All dressed up and ready for the Ohio silhouette show tomorrow. Please come if you can! https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/ohio-silhouette-show-march-2nd.63449/
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    Full Moon Maple Development

    Health wise….great. Fall color wise, less than remarkable. I think it needs to build a better root system for storing starches.
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    Hand-me-down Carissa

    Roy Minari gets good prices for his shohin pots. Not my cup of tea, but it shows there is a market. To get into that market takes a lot of showing up at shows and social media presence. Making the product is only 50% of selling art. I've been in the arts, in some way, most of my life and I'm...
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    Hand-me-down Carissa

    I do make smaller pots....however, they take me about the same amount of time as a larger pot. The only difference is how many I can fit into the kiln. So if I were to charge the same price as the larger ones I probably wouldn't sell many small pots.
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    Hand-me-down Carissa

    This flowers but not prolifically. Never has more than 8-10 flowers at a time. It doesn’t fruit. This thing fills the pot with roots in a season and so far it gets root pruned every two seasons. Doesn’t seem to skip a beat. The roots get so tight the core gets hydrophobic. I submerge it every...
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