Recent content by pauldogx

Just passing on some info I thought relevant. Several other Bonsai nurseries around me wont use Osmocote either. Use the info as you will. Personally I use Dynagrow for chemical fert in the spring and as soon as its warm I use organics only(rapeseed cakes and Neptunes Harvest Fish and Seaweed...

Most people I know have had bad experience with Osmocote type ferts. Peter Adams absolutely warned against them. He says they have a tendency to dump too much fert at once and none at others as they are temp related release. I have no personal experience--but at one of Peter"s workshops he was...

Looks like a great time. Unfortunately the collecting season is over already here in Eastern PA. Everything has budded out due to the warm spring. Also a second on holding your breath on the larches--collecting or repotting after bud break is a crap shoot at best.

They do back bud....one thing to remember--you only get one flush of growth per year with euonymous.

I'll be there all weekend. Several others from my home clubs Bonsai Society of the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania Bonsai Society will be there as well. Lookin forward to it!!

As has been explained many many times before Kokufu is not judged on who the artist is. Most if not all the trees at Kokufu are not owned by the artists. The tree it self is the only consideration at Kokufu. Who owns it , styled it or who is the richest has absolutely no bearing whatsoever...

Sweet tree!! I am envious as well--such a great impression of age from that trunk!!

A really great tree!! I like it just the way it is.

The size of my control group is not very large--but last year I did an experiment after reading Vance's many posts about summer repotting. I repotted 2 similar sized mugos from the same nursery stock.. One I did in spring--it slowly died in about 1 month. The other I did in early July and it...

Really great tree. Love it!!

Really??? You obviously have never spent time with people who are the best in the world at what they do. I have and most of the time supreme confidence and expertise is percieved as "haughtiness" or "arrogance". Your loss if you can't tell the difference. BTW--Miss Vic explicitly stated...

Thanks for this info Chris. I am far from an experienced wirer--but the more I do it the easier it becomes. I do love seeing how others approach the wiring conundrums we all come up against. What blows me away about the masters is how they can see wiring moves 5 or 6 steps ahead like great...

I have done fine wiring down to 22 gauge wire. The finer the branch(or branchlet) the finer the wire. I recently helped wire an older San Jose juniper where we only wired the secondary and smaller branches. The main branches were set years ago and this was strictly "refinement" wiring. It took 2...

I received an Invoice the 1st week of November to renew my subscription. It also included a nice(and polite) cover letter explaining it was time to renew and that if you renewed on line you could win a Best of Europe 3 being raffled each week. I renewed online. The invoice clearly stated if you...

Love the new pot. Its perfect. Really a great tree!!