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How do you handle a tick infestation? Can anything be done?

Duh, try to search the forum yourself. Shibui has some very nice ones.

Yeah, it must be. They can be found everywhere on earth where there is a suitably moist habitat with decaying organic matter and at numbers of around 100000 individuals per square meter. You basically cannot pick up a moist hand of soil without also getting some mites, nematodes and springtails...

Why is that wire on it? It seems too thin be of any use.

I don't, but sometimes they do. The one insists on Treezilla.

Peter, the slanted chop was in 2012. Martin, if you look at the first tree I posted it's trunk to height ratio is about 1:8. I find that pleasing to emulate a mature, but not ancient, deciduous tree. Going for a similar ratio gives me about another foot to work with at the top of this one.

Mine too, also the reason it was the first one I took out. Couldn't wait to start with it. My favourite shape of tree is a deciduous

Spiders are predators and eat insects. They are good and cannot harm a tree.

Yeah, it was obviously a joke.

Boerboel, the anonymous user you replied to was Will Heath. He is not with us anymore. He is still in jail for illegally collecting trees. Read about it here. Heed the warning, don't let your collecting become an obsession.

Same story. 2011 few years pass... Decided to chop as indicated and encourage the brances below the chop to thicken up.

Like this tree it was in the ground for 3 years to thicken and encourage lateral roots. Dug up 2011, chopped and planted in a tyre. I wanted my trees to all look different, so had to make one into a real bosai shape. Chopped it three times. The top section is a bit straight on the tight side.

Just like this tree it was in the ground for 3 years to thicken and encourage lateral roots. Dug up 2011, chopped and planted in a tyre. I can t find a photo, but it grew wild for a few years before I chopped it just above the thicker branch, right at the bottom and bent the branch up. There is...

Thanks everyone. Bobby, apart from them being very reluctant to close a wound, I think they are perfect. The roots are particularly fast growing and I would be more aggressive in pruning them in future. They did get away from me and they are a bit oversized. Thanks, Coh. I thought this tree...

I was lucky enough to be given a bunch of small Celtis in nursery bags and decided to make a few into bonsai. I cut the nursery bags and put them around the taproot with a pipe clamp to force roots to the sides. This was in 2008. I don't have pics of the individual trees, but did basically the...

That is one great looking tree. To be honest, I would chop that branch back to the first of the three thicker ones at the end. There seems to be lots of places it will bud if you do that. Celtis are my favourite trees, I dug up a few this spring.

Celtis are my favourite trees. What a trunk! How is it doing?

I think most of all they need lots of light, direct sunlight, at least 4h a day. To a juniper indoors looks practically pitch dark, it starves.

If you want to make a lot of holes in a plastic container, I have an old soldering gun that does it in next to no time (outside, open air!). I make lots of slits that are just narrow enough so that the substrate can't wash out. Also up the sides.

It's a tree, doesn't look fused to me.

Because it's cheaper and I can find it easily locally, good enough reason for me. Also adds sulfate anions that the tree can actually use. I don't know how much pH Down you can get for $10 but I seriously doubt it will get far with my water and no way will you get 1000s of gallons of hard...

Dario, I had exactly the same problem a you. Started using vinegar to lower the pH but it was way to costly. Now using battery acid, works great for me and you use a LOT less of it. Do you remember this and this thread on the Bonsai Site? Paul (63pmp) really helped me a lot.

It's just a smallish spade of which I broke the plastic handle off trying to lever a rock out of the ground. The shaft has concertinaed at the top from hitting with the hammer. It works exceptionally well and quick because you can knock it down into the ground as deep as you want and due to the...