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    Mexican Oak

    What time of the year do you defoliate if you are not repotting? Can you do it more than once in a year and does it work well with red oak species, i.e. shumardii, nutalii, etc?
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    Quercus agrifolia progression

    Great tree, Paul. Is this a Yamadori or have you been working on it for a while. Curious as to how long it took to get this thick a trunk.
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    Live Oak layer

    Don't mess with air layer, I've tried several in Houston and Paul is correct, they callus like they do when they are healing a pruned branch but don't send roots. I would just wait 'til early spring, before the old leaves drop and the new ones emerge and saw it off where you would like. When...
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    Live oak skeleton

    I'll look into checking which variety of oak I have; I have heard of Q. fusiformis. Have you ever tried to air layer a live oak? I tried it last year on a pretty large branch - 4" diam., already barked out and all, but I had trouble with squirrels tearing up the air layer. I even wrapped it...
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    Live oak skeleton

    Thanks for the reply, rock. I'm sorry I failed to mention I'm from Houston, TX. I am working on some 3-5 year old, q. virginianas, a 3 year old q. shumardii (red oak) and a few cork and valley oaks a friend sent me acorns from CA. He's in the San Fran Bonsai society and they do a lot of oak...
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    Live oak skeleton

    Hi rockm, I'm new to Bonsai Nut and just saw your posts on the live oak. It is really nice. I am an oak lover but new at bonsai and am trying to work on some oaks. For some reason, very few members of our society have oak bonsais. From your posts, it seems you have defoliated the tree. If...
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