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    General comments

    Good for you! I told my wife, "Now I have to live to at least 71!"
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    General comments

    I just wrote a blog post about this contest. Maybe we'll get a new participant or two. :) You can check it out, if you want, at: http://hoosierbonsai.blogspot.com/2018/03/six-year-bonsai-from-seed-competition.html.
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    Treebeard55's JBP contest thread

    Took them out of the fridge 3 days ago and planted them. I decided to use peat pellets, partly because I've found them to work well and partly because we're in the middle of a house move and I think peat pellets will be easier to transport when transporting is called for. Here are pictures of...
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    Two larch repotting questions

    That one I can't answer. It was in its present nursery pot when I bought it last July.
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    Two larch repotting questions

    Thanks, people! I checked the tree today and the buds are just starting to show some green here and there. Plan right now is to repot within the next day or two, and protect the roots from freezing for the rest of the winter. (So I guess I'll be performing the Larch Two-Step, given the temp...
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    Two larch repotting questions

    Last summer I bought a nice little American larch (Larix laricina) at MABA 2017. This is my 2nd larch, and I'm still learning about them. I did some styling at the demo table at our club's fall show in mid-September. I'm attaching a picture of the tree as it was when I bought it, and one from...
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    Fukien Tea Cuttings

    I'd be interested in hearing how an air-layer turned out.
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    My Old Man Treatise

    At the 2016 Mid-America, Colin Lewis was the headliner. Colin is older than I am (65) but younger than you are, I'm sure. He said something at one point of a discussion that really stuck with me: if you realistically expect to not be around to see a bonsai project finished, then "Do [your part]...
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    Surprise bonsai-not sure what kind

    Thanks, Anthony - I thought I had the name slightly wrong! Carol Rosner, yes.
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    Pls. help identify my bonsai

    Money tree it's not, I can tell you; its leaves are palmate compound, and naturally the size of a man's handspan. Can you post a clearer picture? I'm afraid the one above doesn't show enough detail for anyone to be sure: Cuphea, Serissa, and some of the small-leaf Ficus are all possibilities...
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    Fukien Tea Cuttings

    I've never tried cuttings from Fukien tea. Mine produce so many seeds that I end up trying to find homes for an excess of seedlings! But in regard to a rooting substrate, you want something that will retain water but not stay soggy. Your potting mix would probably work quite well, actually, if...
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    Surprise bonsai-not sure what kind

    Jerry, might that be Carl Rosberg?
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    Surprise bonsai-not sure what kind

    (Yes, I know this is an older thread.) I've kept serissas for a number of years now, and found they survive temperatures down to 20 F with no real issues. As has been said, they're not tropicals, but a warm-temperate species. One caution: All my experiments have been with the straight species...
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    Help pls.

    I agree with Eric: the soil is not drying out enough between waterings. You need to let the surface of the soil dry completely, then water slowly and thoroughly. Let the surface dry again, water slowly and thoroughly, and so on. If the tree is still struggling or if what you call mildew is...
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    Japanese black pine in colorado zone 5a

    I'm also in Zone 5b. My experience has been that when I leave a JBP outside under just a wind shelter with my yews, pondys, and other botanical equivalents to musk oxen, it survives but struggles all the next season. I now keep a JBP under a little extra protection, trying not to let it take...
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