Saddler
Chumono
I bought this tree but the movers gave up 3/4 of a mile in. Probably for the best, I don't have 0.005 gauge wire for the branches and would probably have to leave a sprinkler or ten on it full time if it did arrive.
Whip it out !! What's the biggest bonsai you got!?
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Wilson
Masterpiece
I feel like this kind of photo just forces me to ask for more information about all them pines! There seems to be a lot of beauties there!
A few White Pines
aml1014
Masterpiece
Don't know how I forgot about this monster elm I collected this year. About 22" to the chop 19"trunk with a 24"base, weighs about 120lbs.
Aaron
Aaron
thomas22
Chumono
I inherited this tree. It's been in the family for about 30 years. I don't have any definite style plans but will probably get some help from professionals with this one. I think it will get its first wiring within the next year.
J. Adrian
Mame
Nice Mame!
J. Adrian
Mame
JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
No, a few Gorgeous White pines...
A few White Pines
JoeR
Masterpiece
That has a TON of potential!! Noice!
aml1014
Masterpiece
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Raintree just became a 60-70 lb. backbreaker after a good flush out watering after a repot....
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
Really?Raintree just became a 60-70 lb. backbreaker after a good flush out watering after a repot....
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What's the pot made out of?
Lead?
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
You are looking live at a 17" round Mica pot about 4-5" deep. Probably 7-10 lb.'s, it's huge!!!
Remember when you put Rupert in that tiny little bag pot? Well, he might be able to shoehorn his rear in this one and strike the same puppy-pose, today!!
Had some large particle lava, pumice and akadama layin' around, so I used it as a "drainage" layer. That's a lot of pot, so I needed lots of soil.
And horror of horrors, I used two different soil mixes!!
Some turface, gravel and bark. I don't normally do this, but here, I did. Not worried. Had some large particles left, so I just threw it on the surface. And after a good watering-in, twice, let's just say we've made a pretty heavy piece of material!!Where I work we move the parts around in fiberglass totes filled to 40 lb.'s, we had a new guy start recently and I informed him of the weight limit. I had him fill up four totes with different amounts.
I could tell the weight just by looking. I'm I not amazing, are you not entertained?
Been dragging those things around for 25 years!! Not so much these day's, which is ok.40 lbs get's a certain "grunt".....60 gets a louder one!!!
I actually did this last weekend and it's been outside since. Hasn't missed a beat. Colleagues and spouses had gone to Bonsai West and were charged up on free wine and focaccia.
So this one got re-potted...whether I was going to do it or not!!
M. Frary
Bonsai Godzilla
I think it would take both of us.
I'm sure jamming him into a pot now would result in bleeding at the least.
Loss of digits would more than likely be the case.
Maybe I don't know what 80 pounds feels like when I pick it up.
RKatzin
Omono
Here's my big cypress. This was a topiary tree in the shape of a rooster. The head died and the nursery was dumping it. I got it for a song and have been cutting it back to this over several years. I just started removing bark to expose the live veins. 
If you zoom in on the left side in the soil you can also see my smallest tree. That's a white oak volunteer that popped up three years ago. I almost weeded out the first year, but it now has five leaves and growing.
If you zoom in on the left side in the soil you can also see my smallest tree. That's a white oak volunteer that popped up three years ago. I almost weeded out the first year, but it now has five leaves and growing.
Velodog2
Chumono
Throwing my wisteria into the ring here. It's not really in a proper bonsai pot as I'm not really sure it's worth the cost of something that large, so a pseudo-Asian thing from Ross will do. I dug it from a friends front yard about 8 years ago and cut it back to something decent looking, but it has since taken over its own styling with die-back and new shoots and I've mostly let it run amuck to see what happens. It was nicer before the apex died and since I've lost some interest in it, keeping it mostly for flowers. The jin looks nice but won't last much longer. I'm enjoying watching the trunk rot out - there originally was only one large trunk but it has split into two now. It looks nicely old and gnarly at this point. I repot infrequently and it typically blooms profusely every other year. This is an off year.
defra
Masterpiece
Hmmm forgot about this it is big too
Cotinus crateagus royal purple
Cotinus crateagus royal purple
michaelj
Chumono
California juniper. Collected October 2015.
Don Blackmond
Omono
Don Blackmond
Omono
