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Smoke (and/or any other trident fungus experts), I would appreciate your thoughts. I have 2 fat old trident, grown with Boon. Received them at my house last summer, weakened with what I believe to be severe fungal issues. Small, curled leaves with black edges. Then fall off. Started rotation of...

For all those out there with success at getting cuttings to root, I would like to ask about your recommendations regarding making hard and soft wood cuttings for Arakawa maple. I have made one hardwood cutting from this tree 2 years ago, all others have failed. Here is the parent tree earlier...

Thank you all for you comments. I wanted to show you how all these pots found homes under their trees. All pots sourced from Matt Ouwinga, has really great pots and service. No relationship or financial arrangement, just a satisfied customer. So here we go! Cream oval with some patina, looks...

Arakawa maple, spring repot. Which pot do u like?

Sangu-Kaku maple. One of my first trees. Airlayer years back, made the daughter and fused 20+ yrs ago. Time for nice pot. Which one do you like? Out of greenhouse, time for cutback Decent root mass, trunks fused

Some spring work on twisty trident.

Setting up for spring work. I like to take pre and post photographs of the trees. Here is my garage set up. I don’t have a studio, yet wish to have reasonable documentation. Thoughts? Can also do black background, thought this light grey of wall worked well, more soft.

Fall has come, winter around the corner. All leaves off deciduous trees. About that time for dormant winter spray. I have chosen lime sulfur, which is hard to get these days. My intent is disease control, particularly trying to limit spring/summer I went with 40:1 water:lime sulfur (29%...

30 yr old Twin Trunk American Hornbeam, 32” tall. 21” cheap Chinese pot. Winter wiring, cut back and general clean up. Slight rotation to the right, effort to see better trunk wiggle, and reinforce rightward movement. Which do you like better, original front, or second with slight...

Winter cut back and wiring. 24” tall. Considering rotation of front. Original front, not bad. Trunk movement better at top. Turned 30 to left. Trunk movement a bit better at bottom, less good at top. This rotation shifts a couple front oriented branches at bottom and mid tree to the left...

Spring work on a small trident, grown in a box. Review of trunk line leads to chop, to address reverse taper midway up tree. Repot, roots combed out, cut back for taper and elimination of crossing roots. All down going roots eliminated. Goal is to have even, radial roots emerging from same level...

San Jose Juniper, styled as an informal upright for 25 years. Challenging foliage, which is often juvenile, coarse and unattractive. Have to leave it alone, get light into tree and foliage may become mature. Finally got mature foliage, however foliage overwhelmed scale of tree. Restyling...

I recently updated avitar/picture. Picture came up well, however, name, demographics, etc are now blank. How to fix? I imagine it is somewhere in account settings, but can't figure it out.

For those of you who have juniper, any suggestions for early season prevention of spider mites? I’m familiar with what they do to foliage, how to test for them and how to treat after they arrive. Had good luck with Neem. Does anyone treat preventively? What do you use? Does systemic...

Posted a single image of this tree earlier. Thought it may be of more interest to see the changes over the styling process? Starting tree Initial styling, with repot at new angle Rest for a grapefruit martini, think about finishing tree Final image, tree lightened up, finishing wire...

JBP wired, repotted and cleaned up. Somewhere in the range of 45 yrs old, 24” tall. Cheap Chinese soft drum (some people like to know about the pot). I don’t have that many nice ones.

This is where I started. Shimpaku 20 yrs old Find a new front and angle Chop off a few branches Start wiring Finished for now. Repot next. Considering taking off lowest right branch, which is in back. Or reduce it, and move it further to the back.

One of my first trees. Procumbins nana, purchased 25 yrs ago as a starter. Grew it like a Christmas tree while I learned more about bonsai. 15 yrs ago cut off all branches less the lowest right and made a semi-cascade. Picture below earlier this month. Tilted up, better orientation of trunk...

Has anyone experience with treating root/crown gall? I have a bad case of it involving a mature crab apple. Repot 15 months ago, to find hundreds of root galls. Cut as many out as possible and potted into Boon mix. Tree is starting to leaf out for spring (second spring since repot). Appears...

I posted this Chuhin JBP 2 year’s ago, and again last week. Reviewing the progression prompted me to believe posting images across this time period would be of interest. The first image at time of purchase, 11/2014. The last image, last week, 2/2018.

This is a 18" tall 25+ yr old Arakawa Japanese maple I have gotten a bit more serious about developing. This is basic work over time. First, get tree strong, in good soil. I chose a wooden box, to promote growth. Tend to nebari, easier to fix early, and with maple want radial flat roots to...

Before styling, after styling, pictured with intended final pot

All, I live in zone 4b. I keep my bonsai in a heated poly tunnel during the winter, and the trees have done quite well, min temps kept in the 40s. About this time, I put the trees down for the winter in the poly tunnel, yet I find that the deciduous trees have not all dropped their...

I am planning to air layer a beech this winter/early spring. I have seen examples of multiple layers performed on trees, particularly japanese maple at the same time, usually nursery stock on several branches simultaneously. Question to all, can more than one layer be done on the trunk...