Recent content by John Ruger

sorry my friend, but this place is corrosive, this placed is screwed.

The only thing not mentioned is a solution. My solution is to finally opt. out of this place.

...some new shots this am after tinkering with it last night.

It's a true beauty Rob.

Workup of a larger sized shimpaku.

Thanks loads again Rob, I really appreciate the advice.

Thanks a million for the virt. advice and encouragement Rob, I think you've brought out an excellent solution. I kept seeing this smaller tree with a huge canopy and was brain-locked on a solution. Any advice on how to handle the foliage on a procumbens?? I keep feeling I'm 2-3 steps behind...

Here's a short procumbens progression over about 8 mos. Just a simple garden variety purchased for cheap and its been a very healthy one so far. I'm not sure how well or poorly I'm tackling the foliage; it seems to get out of hand fairly quickly on this type and I'm not really sure what equates...

Leave it alone at this point, it's been through enough.

I've never immersed them for that long. I sink them until what is crawling floats to the top and then skim them off, usually 10-15 min. I've had a grub come flying out from inside a pot like a bat out of hell once the bubbles stopped rising.

I've had spider mite issues with junipers and usually what I've done is use a hard blast of water from a garden hose. I'll take each branch individually in the palm of my hand to brace it and spray all sides; that's worked for me. With small deciduous trees, I usually have an aphid issue...

You've done superb work on this this tree Vance, certainly one of the nicest and tasteful shimps.

Vance, Does Will still participate in the bonsai online community? Reason I ask is that I remember reading quite a bit of his work/research on bonsai and he possesses a wealth of information and truly enjoyable reading.

Mind you I'm not familiar with the species, but would you be able to work the larger trunk down until it's par with the shorter and then re-make the whole tree from a much larger base?

Really outstanding shimpaku. This is the first time I've seen your threads and your trees and work are excellent. Certainly, you have a great deal to show us; I know I'll learn a great deal as well. Thank you showing your work and for providing your blog; I've been following several of your...