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Osoyoung pointed me to JL Hudson, Seedsman as a resource (good info there) and Michael at his Bonsai Harmony website has a discussion about getting female Princess persimmon to fruit without male plants by spraying the flowers with Ga3 while in bloom. Interesting stuff…

Hi, I am trying GA3 on a Stewartia Monadelpha seeds this year. i have had very little success germinating them in the past so I wanted to give it a boost. Too soon to tell though, i just started in November and it is 4 months warm and 3 months of cold stratification. It is relatively inexpensive...

Great Progression! I raided the garden this year for a Weigela but much smaller than yours. Do you think the leaves will reduce?

I read in a bonsai blog that when a collected tree leafs out if there is no extension growth then there is an imbalance between foliage and not enough roots. Is this true? As such the tree should spend the first season in shade with careful watering and misting when possible. My simple...

Thank you!

Hi Judy, what are your temp settings for deciduous on the heating mat. Do they change for day/night time? I have a recently repotted Fuji cherry that is very sluggish…and I want to get it moving.

I have an Inkbird 308 temperature controller and a 1500 watt portable heater from a local big box store. Both have worked well for three years now. I have a backup heater just in case and for when it gets really cold. We get a couple nights a winter of minus 30c temps and with both heaters I can...

I have a heater on a thermostat at 3-5 c so things don’t freeze.

I have a Govee thermometer/hygrometer with bluetooth so I can check from inside the house that works great 17 Canadian bucks on Amazon. It also charts min/max temps etc. I was out in the greenhouse today, it was 25 Celsius 77 Fahrenheit and it was great. Minus 4c outside and 2 feet of snow on...

Hi there, this is my setup in Ontario Canada zone 5. I had the same concern about temperature but was wondering about the chill hour interruptions. A friend who studied horticulture assured me that chill hours were not affected by short interruptions as DSD pointed out. This is my 3rd winter...

Hey there Belleville, I’m just north of Cobourg! I have had lots of success with the John P method. I start checking weekly after they are in the fridge about 60 days and plant the ones up that have sprouted, the remainder at around 90 days. I have tried outdoors with no luck, tridents are iffy...

Shibui, What is your potting mix for the individual pots?

Try canadabonsai.com, he has some on his website

Thanks for all the replies folks, I’ll have to research this sweetgum and look at the leaves, and pay more attention when I buy something.

So I went to take some cuttings today of what was sold to me as a trident maple but I noted the leaf pattern is alternate, not opposite. Any ideas?

Thanks Augustine, I have found that if I put it in a pot or colander I pay better attention to the tree. This one was in the ground but suffering from a bit of neglect so now I fuss over it a bit more

Boy, a longer growing season would be nice. I'm gonna get this one nice and healthy this year, maybe fertilize the crap out of it and see what Ontario sun can do. Scion grafting and approach grafting are in the cards once I have a good healthy trunk and a design in mind...thanks for all the...

Thanks Aaron, Osoyoung and Sawgrass. This juniper has a great trunk but it was a landscape tree and the foliage is far away. I think all of the suggestions will be used on this one...

When is it appropriate to shorten branches in an effort to get foliage closer to the trunk?I have read lots about the juniper dependance on foliage for health and that a bare branch will not push new growth, but if I cut back the branch in the picture to the first flush of foliage will it force...

Too true, rabbits really enjoy pruning my little apples, damn neighbor cat slacks off in the spring.

Thanks for the tips. The big junipers look awesome. I will definitely have to pick one up. So, I would just train and trim one those into a bonsai? Absolutely, there are lots of books and Internet sites including this one that you can search for guidance. It would be best to find a local club...

Ben, I wrap the pot and soil with panty hose, a trick I learned from the club in Oshawa to keep the dirt out and then bury it above the pot rim leaving the foliage exposed to the elements.Junipers are hardy. I might treat a very expensive specimen tree differently but my stuff is mostly pre-...

Welcome Ben, I leave mine outside all winter, heel them into the garden, pot and all. No winter protection at all, ideally buried in snow. I am 1 1/2 hrs west of you, just north of Cobourg. Jim

Can we go back to the discussion about cutting off branches? Just collected a few apples and have planted them in the ground to recover for this year. I removed several branches to balance out the amount of roots removed but you are saying I should leave a stub for now and not go right to the...

You know looking at pictures of amazing rocky mountain yamadori and critiquing how they should be properly displayed and what lighting to use is fun but will likely always be beyond the realm of my experience. I am ok with this, I don't aspire to being a professional, I just want to learn and...