Recent content by DirkvanDreven

I don't have this tree anymore. Can't really recall what happend with it. They do make fine bonsai though! Price will depence on the age, size and quality of the tree!

I'm kind of happy with this one. But no ramification of branches yet, trunk stil to thin, so cutting the present sacrifice branche would set me back for a couple of years. First years of development should have been dedicated to growing roots and trunk. To soon my trees were transferred into...

My trees are well on their way to bonsai. But not there yet. I did not remove the sacrefice branches, the trees must gain weight. So I'm withdrawing from this competition. But it was fun and I'm curious about the result of other competitors!

I don't know. Seems to be back now

It is out of the ground. Still in the pondbasket, where it will be till next spring. Some branche are allready wired. Now chasing green back to the trunk, and keeping small what is small

Update september 2022

Three remaining seedlings/young trees. Not much time left, to make this small bonsai trees

Quick update. Repotted some baby-pines. European black pine, Pinus Nigra, Pinus Uncinata and Pinus Thunbergii. All that are regarded as 'black pines'. Most are from a batch of seedlings from 2017. Of the 2018 batch of JBP I have only three left that I know for sure are from the 2018 batch...

This is my mame Japanese maple. It is 8,5 cm above the pot. That is little over 3 inches. The small pot is handmade. It's leafing out. Every second pair of leaves are pinched. When the leaves are fully grown , little will probably happen for the rest of the summer .

Removed the sacrifice in one go. Tree was dead a couple of months later. Now very unsure about removing sacrificebranches. Well, it only took me 10 years to grow it...

I can't remember. I don't think I stratified for 6 months. It's what I planned to do if I could get fresh seeds. The white pine is no longer in my garden. The seeds in 2010 were fresh as could be! I think that is most important! I think I sowed the seeds in APL, but can't really remember.

Thanks all for chiming in. There is enough time, I'll reconsider all suggestions!

I want to keep the bend in the trunk, it has decent taper very low and the smal branches are within one inch from the soil. And I will start with removing needles from the sacrifice branch.

i have this japanese black pine. From seed, about 8 years old. the cultivation did not go well: I have some branches at the bottom, otherwise I have only grown a sacrificial branch. The base is great. My plan is to put a graft on the trunk, just above the low bend in the trunk, where some bark...

Looking good!