Vindeezy
Yamadori
Lucky you I was just thinking about bonsai at work and my boss yelled at me!!!
Bonsai at work…
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Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Looking good. Closest I get to Bonsai at work is looking at mine out my home office window.
Good luck on the diet, they’re no fun. I’m on my first real diet, down 38 since 12/1. Didn’t think I had that much to lose?.
Good luck on the diet, they’re no fun. I’m on my first real diet, down 38 since 12/1. Didn’t think I had that much to lose?.
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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Headed home for the day...
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
- Messages
- 13,098
- Reaction score
- 30,132
- USDA Zone
- 6a
Yup, and this one was started from landscape nursery stock in SE MA over 15 years ago... I can't even blame the Japanese!!!
quietobserver
Omono
Looks like the apex was ripped off by a gopher.
New theory: the warping of the spin of the Milky Way is due to gophers eating bonsai apexes!
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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- USDA Zone
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Yeah, a 205# gopher who was late for lunch!
How is this one in the terracotta pot going these days? Did you do any root grafts you any if your JBPs?
Housguy
Chumono
I bring a tree to work for viewing once in awhile, the staff enjoys looking at it.
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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It was re-potted into a pond basket with boons mix last spring and had a root graft placed. Both grew well, and despite a very wet spring, the foliage is a very healthy dark green... so healthy that rabbits pruned it over the winter and killed a few branches, and I'm not sure the graft took. I'm planning to change the front any way, so the root graft isn't as important now with the future front.
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
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I cut a notch in the trunk base where I wanted the roots then introduced the pine seedling after scraping away the cambium on the side facing the notch, then secured with a grafting nail/pin. I suspect I didn't make the notch deep enough... I'll investigate this weekend.
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
- Messages
- 13,098
- Reaction score
- 30,132
- USDA Zone
- 6a
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
- Messages
- 13,098
- Reaction score
- 30,132
- USDA Zone
- 6a
Pure carnage today and it may get worse...
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
- Messages
- 13,098
- Reaction score
- 30,132
- USDA Zone
- 6a
Will eventually remove the highest portion of the Apex off to the left and build a new one centered almost but not quite over the root base, but will wait until that cascading/dropped branch is stronger.
LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Nice, but the pot made me wince some. But I have been using the old sickle-saw to remove a stubborn tree. This shape can be a bit difficult at "extracation"!!!
Dav4
Drop Branch Murphy
- Messages
- 13,098
- Reaction score
- 30,132
- USDA Zone
- 6a
Yeah, I was actually thinking about that recently. This one was getting re-potted annually... until this yearNice, but the pot made me wince some. But I have been using the old sickle-saw to remove a stubborn tree. This shape can be a bit difficult at "extracation"!!!
. Hoping to build some vigor, I suppose. Anyway, I'm not concerned about the re-pot next year, as young ume roots are very fibrous as opposed to woody and I should be able to easily cut through them with a root sickle. If this was a trident that was allowed to grow wild, I wouldn't feel quite so confident.LanceMac10
Imperial Masterpiece
Should be a fabulous tree......obligatory drop-branch comes standard!!!
Wilson
Masterpiece
Lookin good dude! So nice to see green leaves, and that ume is gonna be sweet!
