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Sure, my reasoning was this… I had just purchased the pine which had moderate vigor and had clearly been drastically pruned the year before. So all of the new buds (or future branches) were set last year. Unfortunately this years buds were allowed to grow to a point where they were too long and...

Alright alright, I just bought one single cmeg pine. Ideally I would've picked up another handful but , as advertised, I'm nearing a destitute level of poverty over here. That rounds me out to $440 spent on a species I didn't look at twice last month. I feel like I got a pretty good haul for...

I’ve been on your eBay page twice this week. I’m wondering if it will round out my collection or be over kill… expect to mail me a package haha

I have been interested in bonsai for years, and in the beginning it was specifically pine trees. But Japanese black pine seemed common, complicated and it wound up being one of very few species that I had trouble keeping alive and healthy. So I focused on other pines. Since then I've shifted...

wow had to zoom in even on my 2' computer screen but great article, thank you for saving this for us.

mine went away with its June defoliation. So far so good, new leaves are hardened off and lightly cut back

fall color should be wayy nicer too

I'm staring at a zelkova landscape tree as I type this and it's leaves are hard drooping. Might just be a heat thing/summer thing? all my seedlings are droopy and arching too

The timing on me seeing this is very coincidental. I just preformed a "partial pruning on spring shoots" yesterday. I was having trouble finding information about any such technique online so I just went for it. Glad you have had good results in the past

To be completely honest, there are so few roots on that tree, I would personally treat it like a cutting. Again, I'd chop it down to somewhere between 6-9" and put it in a really small pot with high humidity. No need to secure it then. You didn't ask what I'd do to be fair. You asked us if we...

the new roots that emerge are extremely fragile and they get broken off when the tree suddenly moves. I always thought this was a minor detail that didn't need to be fussed over but I had a tree nearly die for this reason. In fact, I attribute my success rate when collecting to my obsession with...

I do what RockM said above and it keeps the trees very happy. I only started doing it last summer, when temps are predicted to hit 90 or above, my trees look so much better since doing this. You could probably even do it at lower temps than 90 but it becomes a chore if your collection isn't tiny

If it were mine I would chop it way back, if only to prevent it from wiggling in the wind. It 100% won't survive if it's being knocked around. If not, you need to make sure it's super secure in the pot somehow

I guess that's the cost of living in paradise. I can watch those little guys for hours, they're harmless here. But in my area if you are wounded and can't move the temperature could end you haha

Ants are the coolest freaking thing, didn't know that part. But they are always impressing me.

I wouldn’t hesitate to use turface on smaller trees but I would definitely mix it with something else. I only have experience using it as part of a mixture and had no complaints. I don’t use it anymore because of the particle size/shape. I have heard from others that problems arise when it’s...

I want to specialize badly, but variety is so nice. Right now I know the most about maple and pine, so I’m trying my best to work within those 2 genus. I can get different fall colors with acer and have conifers to play with too

Hope the motive wasn't bonsai....

Took the words out of my mouth. Just get a job dude, you are already working third shift AND doing manual labor haha

also remember that in terms of general care, it's impossible to over water them. very flood tolerant.

I have only collected two but so far I've noticed that top growth will happen long before the roots start doing anything. Maybe that's how other collected stuff is too but I'm talking about having lignified branches and not a single white root. Maybe your heat mat changed that though. I don't...

Feed that thing heavily, mixed with a full sun diet it should be budding on the branches before fall

In America one of their common names (besides chinese elm) is lace bark elm. Because they have such beautiful mottled bark. I think it's their greatest feature personally. They are gray when young and as they age the color begins to show as bark falls off

I have also found copper to be useless, I don't use systemics but now I definitely won't bother. Lime sulfur was actually what I was thinking this year. Just frustrating because I have had some chinese elms give a really nice fall show but only without black spot which just makes my trees look...