Recent content by nickbachman

No greenhouse, in fact it was out in the dry SoCal air. I started making my soil out of cheaper stuff I could get from the garden center. 3 parts pumice, 2 parts lava, 1 part (maybe less actually) fine orchid bark. It’s quire porous with a pretty big range in particle size. Fertilized well with...

Thanks! He's doing very similarly to the little porker above. I let a low branch grow 3-4 feet over the whole season and it fattened up the base very nicely.

Some explosive growth on the jar lid ficus! This is after chopping off much, much more rootage. Worked like a dream! Totally flat on the bottom, many radial roots and a lot of ariels. Now to work on some branch structure. Should make a nice multi trunk/apex tree.

I do have something useful you can have for free if you want. They’re called Anderson Flats, and they’re used for growing out prebonsai material. I have four, they’re brand new, and you can have them all if you want.

Sorry it’s long gone.

I don't want to make any money on this akadama box, wife just wants it gone. If you can pick it up in Van Nuys this weekend, it's yours for free.

I have a box of small-sized Akadama soil I bought on Ebay from House of Bonsai. They sell them for 25 dollars plus 19 shipping. Any takers at 20 bucks for the box? I only opened it for the photos, it's completely full. Located in Van Nuys, CA; and LOCAL PICKUP ONLY, please.

Thanks dude! The tree I got from you is doing great, maybe my strongest grower!

Thanks! I'd love to have some aerials drop down from the branches, but I can only get them to sprout from the trunk. Maybe I'll try wrapping certain spots with moss.

Picked the tree up on ebay for 90 bucks BIN. Looked like it had potential. Here it as when I got it NOV 2014: Here it was this weekend: And here it is now: Back: I never got a good candidate for my main low branch on the right side. Last summer, I attempted my first ever graft by...

I actually feel like I'm behind on repotting here in LA, and I started weeks ago! Still have half my trees left to go. Love this CA weather (I'm an Iowa native)....

I've had this Crabapple (don't know the variety, sorry) for a couple years now. Started as a little shrub of prebonsai material, which I selected for its trunk movement and nice lower branching (the radial rooted flaring base was a nice surprise). In my vision, this will be the center trunk of a...

Believe it's a reference to Rowdy Roddy Piper's line in the movie "They Live." "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass…and I’m all out of bubblegum." And I agree with you, fuck that guy. I DO think race plays a role in people's reaction to this story. If it was all white kids and an...

Thanks Aaron! I agree. I must say that when I wired it to the jar lid last year, it was sort of an impulsive move. I wasn't planning to use a tile type device, but saw that rigid plastic lid sitting in our recycling. Didn't have the proper screws on hand, so I had to improvise haha it's not...

I'd be thrilled to have this in my yard as it is. I wouldn't lose the little trunk; it has great movement and adds character to and sets it apart from what would otherwise be a nice, but standard "zig zag" informal upright trunk.