Recent content by Shrimpaku

I might have to go buy some seeds. I am concerned how long it takes to grow into bonsai. Should I be thinking five years? 10 years?

To help all beginners I'd like to start a thread about the biggest mistake you learned from as a beginner. I've made so many mistakes it is hard to chose, but: * Learn when, how and how often to repot. Pretty obvious, but when I first started I used to repot several times a year (!) or else...

I couldn't decide whether to put this in "Black Pines" or "Propogating" so here it is :) This is probably the best guide I have ever seen on how to grow black pine from seeds. Great photos and great descriptions. If you can't grow Black Pines after this then you must be me :) The original...

So you are saying three years? One year with moss, one year with pot on tree, one year in grow-out pot?

These ones were bigger I would have to say they had a good 1" trunk or more. I will have to dig out my old Bonsai Today magazines; there was a great article about a guy who was growing high-quality Black Pines from seed to selling size in five years. He grew them in nested colanders out of the...

I wish I knew how much they sold for.

Hard to tell. There is a gap between the roots on the lower left, but one of the roots may be high and could be removed. Otherwise you could try an approach graft to try to fix it. It really isn't that significat of an issue - White Pines don't have the nebari a Black Pine has.

I was checking out from my Home Depot yesterday and I saw a cart with two Japanese Black Pines in it. I think they were being returned because the cart had a lot of misc junk in it. I went to the nursery to check out if there were any more pines, but couldn't find any. Of course, when I...

I didnt see anything on this site newer than 1999. I think it might be a dead site.

Wow. That is an insane pine. Right now there are some pines on ebay that are selling for a lot more that dont look as good. I wonder if I could bring one back if I flew over there? They must have some way for visitors to bring bonsai home.