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After thinking that we were done with this cancer mess with Caleb, but found out yesterday that it is back in what is left of his left kidney, and now also in both of his lungs, his stomach, and lymph nodes. This is really really really not good. Poor little guy needs prayers more than ever now...

As some of you may remember my son Caleb was diagnosed with cancer this year. I am pleased to report that they did a surgery on him at at judes in Memphis and have him 6 more weeks of chemo just in case and now he is done with chemo and cancer free. Thank you all for your prayers.

Would using a terra cottage pot increase overall CEC of a soil?

I bought this big ol tub of tree seal from Lowes the other day. It cost like 5 bucks. Has anyone ever used Morrison's tree seal? I will post a pic later when I can

In John Naka's bonsai techniques 1 he refers to "sand" quite a lot. When he says that does he mean like fine sand as in play sand or beach sand, or is he talking about coarse sand like fishtank rocks or decomposed granite?

My son will be a year and a half tomorrow. Earlier this year he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. He is currently recovering from having 2/3 of one kidney removed and 10% of the other one. He has done great with the whole process but he needs all the prayers he can get right now. Keep him in...

I was watering my big green Japanese maple today when I noticed a small section of its leaves had tiny little black...things for lack of a better word...they appear to be some sort of eggs. Its not growing from the leaves or doesn't appear to be so i don't think it's any kind of gall, but I...

This was one of my first ever "pre bonsai" back when I didn't have a clue what I was doing and kind of went of half cocked an ended up doing this which ultimately resulted in the death of my little tree.

I got this young green Japanese maple from the nursery this year just to play with and I was wondering what y'all would do with it for now? I was thinking that I could chop it to one of those lower branches that point upward, trim the roots, and plant it in the ground over a tile and leave it...

Are all copies of john naka's bonsai techniques 1 signed or stamped with his signature? I just got a paperback version and it appears to be signed but it did not say that in the item description

I make my soil mix with 1 part permatill (expanded shale) 1 part decomposed granite, 1 part turface and half a part sifted pine bark. I sift everything through half inch screen as well as window screen sized screen. Does that sound like a good functional soil mix?

I gotthis nice little trident from telperion farms. I'm very happy with it, it has about a 6 inch base, but I'm not sure it's ready for this small of a pot, and I'm also a little unsure of what the next step will be. What do u guys think?

I looked at my big gree Japanese maple yesterday and it looked fine. I looked at it today and all the leaves are turning brown and curling up. What is going on with this thing?!?!?

AcI recently bought some nice varieties of maple via eBay, 4 shindeshojo and 1 sharps pygmy, well I didn't think to ask if they were grafted or not so of course they all were grafted. How would you suggest getting roots above the graft so that I can cut the grafted part out. I was thinking air...

I recently purchased this green Japanese maple and I was hoping to get your suggestions on what to do to it this coming spring

I have one trident maple and one Japanese maple, well I have lots of Japanese maples, but this one I chopped back earlier this year, same with the trident. They started out looking great and growing like crazy but recently they have al but stopped growing and are very droopy. Can anyone tell why...

I got this azalea about a month ago from the grocery store and I thought it would be a nice little bush to practice on. Its just finished blooming and before I trim it I figured I would see what y'all would do, so here are some pics.

In the past I have used automotive spill absorbent and nothing else as a soil (sifted of course) and that works pretty well but it's a little more dense than I would like, so I've started mixing permatill (expanded slate)and pine bark fines. I have a few questions: ideally how long should the...

These are three of my azaleas that just finished blooming and have just been trimmed for the first time. This is the first time I've done this. What are your thoughts??

I've been reading on evergreengardenworks.com about JBP's but its a really difficult read and I need to learn more about basic pine physiology before I can fully understand what I'm reading. Can anyone refer me to some more basic pine literature. A book or website or anything.

I have no idea why lowes was selling jap maples like this, it wouldn't be a usable landscape tree but I'm not complaining, I love the shape and the trunk movement, I'm working on correcting some nebari issues, but other than that I need to develop branches and ramification and it'll be a good...

Sorry they're sideways again but I purchased this trident the other day, I live in western nc and the buds are about to pop any day now. Is it too late to do a trunk chop this year? When should I chop this? You can see the latent bud near the base of the tree and its got several more at that...

So about 3 years ago I made the mistake of purchasing this Chinese elm from Brussels bonsai. I thought I was getting a nice looking formal upright. Immagine my surprise when this weird shaped tree full of wire scars and huge scars from removing large branches. I left it in the pot for the first...

I dug these two trees today the little one was just a bi product of digging the big one. I think they're live oaks but I'm not positive. Also I see now why all you good people were telling me not to try and dig a live oak. If you're thinking of collecting one of these, don't. They have long...

I have this azalea with a really cool trunk. It hasn't been trained at all yet an I'm planning on chopping it this year, but I'm not sure what to use as the new top. It also has a section of inverse taper. I'm thinking that to fix the inverse taper problem I should leave the lowest branch on...