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I'm not going to wait any longer. I've got a few tridents that I'll be working with, and may add a couple Japanese maples and maybe a few others as well. I don't have a final plan for any of these tridents, though I think the larger of these will end up in the 15-18" tall range when it...

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/bwaynefs-brimming-backyard-barrage-of-burgeoning-bonsai.47170/post-957702 <-- Some of my earliest photos of this tree. I'd had it for several months at that point. I bought it from a friend that needed to sell. He knew I liked it, if for no other reason than...

I’ve been to a small handful of Boon’s Intensives, but this was my first Summer Intensive so it was a new experience for me. Also, Boon moved so I got to see a different part of California. Sort of anyway. He used to live out in a heavily-agricultural area. Now he’s in a more urban area. I...

I decided this year to tackle a few things. So far I'm 6/7 on JBP grafts (unless its 7/8). I've also airlayered before leafing out to positive results on a Shishigashira maple because I'd heard there are 2 times to airlayer but had only ever done it after the leaves hardened off. Now I'd...

My wife started a tradition of taking our kids on a special trip for them when they turn 13. My younger son turns 13 today so his trip is coming up. I've never traveled to this area, and my wife's only been a couple times. We like good food. It doesn't have to be fancy, and it doesn't have to...

Personally and politically I've changed a ton in the past 10 years. Even the past 5. As a result of learning and experiencing new things, I'm just trying to do the best with what I know. It's been said that lots of folks in bonsai for decades have repeated that first year over and over ...as...

What is the recommended procedure for an airlayer that fails? 2x? First I wrapped it with sphagnum and didn’t get roots. Worried the sphagnum was staying too wet which then caused the layer to fail, I hung a 4” pot and filled it with soil. That one also produced no new roots. (Bigbox hormone...

I had a bout with Spider mites earlier this year and attacked them with Floramite. I'd prefer not to have to don a tyvec suit w/ the stuff I spray so I was pointed to Horticultural oil and Neem oil as possible treatments for spider mites. Lately we're unseasonably warm with temps 95-100ºF that...

I have 2 1.5L handheld sprayers that I use for various things: 1 for pesticides, 1 for fungicides and occasionally fertilizer. I don't LOVE what I have so figured I'd poll the wisdom of the Nut for recommendations. Anybody have a sprayer that you love? Easy to use? Easy to clean? Easy to...

I have a neagari ‘Korin’ Satsuki azalea. When it came to me it’d already lost an upper branch. It lost another last year. Here it is this year and looks like another branch is gone. I’ve taken a bit of advice from Peter Warren and wrapped a rag around this branch and trying to keep it...

After languishing with results that weren't what I expected and changing/controlling/checking everything in my power, I finally came to the conclu$ion that my growing areas didn't get enough sun. I bit the bullet and called a tree $ervice and had them remove $everal tree$ in one area of my...

If anyone has a copy of this book they'd like to get rid of, I'm interested.

Does anyone have those two magazines that they’re willing to get rid of?

Does anyone have these three magazines? I'm trying to finish my set.

Is alliteration a bannable offense? Having a single place to share/update my work seemed like a good idea, so, late to the game, I figured I'd add to the brouhaha of bonsai backyards. My 1000th post seemed a fitting point to begin this thread. I'm in the midst of fall work at the moment...

The pots that I'm drawn to, tend to be more traditional. I like straight lines that are precise and curves that are consistent. As a rule, Japanese potters seem to excel at this, when that is their aim at least. As much as I'd like to invest in the future of bonsai in *THIS* country, many of...

I recently had the opportunity to style this tree, coming from Chikugo-En a couple years ago. (This isn’t my tree.) I didn’t wire out every tip and it could really benefit from some backbudding to build out the structure. I’ve already received some input on the apex as well. “It looks better...

Not seedling-cuttings. Cuttings. A man I’ve never known to lie to me called me around to a part of his yard and pointed with a knowing grin. “Take a look at these,” he said. I looked at a nearly empty flat with a few spindly maple volunteers, from the rubrum nearby, nestled alongside 5 young...

Coming up with a name for these threads is always harder for me than it should be. Alas, I found a trunk that caught my eye. The lower portion was pretty impressive but the upper portion was going to have to be built from scratch. It had everything in the right place though, so I chose this one...

Has anyone experienced the leaves of azalea curling length-wise AND UPWARD? I've seen references to azalea leaf curl caused by a particular pathogen that has them hanging limp and curling downward. Full-disclosure, I've recently found some fungal issues on junipers not far from this azalea...

I’ve been admiring stewartia as batches of them pass thru my local bonsai establishment. The color and sheen of the bark, the texture and color of the buds, and the never-gets-TOO-big foliage, and the propensity for ramification are all pretty excellent reasons individually, but you get all this...

I saw this tree for sale back in the fall. I'd seen similar quality trees for sale that I'd wanted but hesitated on pulling the trigger just long enough that by the time I decided to make them mine, ...they'd been sold. I didn't hesitate too long on this one and managed to bring it home. As...

I've recently started to approach bonsai more seriously, ...actually seeking (regular) instruction. Recently, after learning how to repot in person (instead of just watching videos/DVDs, reading about it, and looking at pictures), I decided I'd try to capture every step of the process. What...

I'll be working on this maple in the next couple of days. I've waited to do the work until I can also repot to avoid bleeding. I'm hopeful it will turn out pretty nice, in a mature spreading maple form. Right now it needs to be reined in a little first. The picture not taken square to one...

Here’s how I’ve spent my free time over the past week or two. This was mostly about setting branches at the right angle and getting foliage laid out for efficiency and backbudding. I’m hopeful to see this one get into a pot that it deserves come spring.