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Hi Fredman! here is some African stuff for you. Acacia Galpinii trunk I'm working on, don't let the pic deceive you, that trunk is about 12-15cm across: small Acacia Burkei is coming along, just have to thicken the second part of the trunk: Baobab, going to be styled in that weeping...

Hi Guys, I got the opportunity to do the first styling on an Olienhout for my friend living in the awesome Stilbaai area bit of background on the tree, was dug in the very north of our country as Yamadori probably about 4-5 years ago, could be about 20 years old. It has just recovered from the...

guys just wanted to post my my first tree in refinement after going through some shit losing half my trees, having no interest in bonsai....neglecting my bonsai...being robbed at gunpoint and threatened blah blah, losing more trees...long story.....got back into the hobby 2 years ago and hit it...

Hi people. bought this maple recently. I did not know we had this kind of maple here in sunny South Africa. Does anyone have any experience with miyabe maple? I've done some research and it seems to be the eastern cousin of Acer Campestre. Any info will be extremely helpful. I'm very excited...

Hi Guys, Am busy styling this precumbens. It was had a huge green helmet on. Saw the tree within the bush and started styling. I'm at the point where I'm wiring all the fine branches (1/3 done). Took a pic and saw something that I should consider Jin that heavy bottom right branch ? If I...

Hi guys, I recently had the privilege of working on a tree with a rich South African heritage. The story goes something to the effect that the style was not a recognized style in japan, our own Doug Hall pioneered this style ( authored it ), and the guys over in japan adopted the style to some...

Hi Guys, I had this thread over at BSG, since moving here I havent created a new thread for this guy I bought it december 2013, wired it march 2014, in 2015 it started going backwards due to the bad soil it was in so I changed out all of the soil for way better soil(my clinker mix), it was a...

Hi guys, I acquired this tree from a friend of mine a few weeks ago, it is a yamadori. It has e very nice base, but only from a limited angle on one side. the front will probably be around there Chose the main branches and removed the rest, now it's up to the tree to bounce back and grow like...

Hi Guys, Maybe this should go to the tea house or maybe not IDK, This weekend I climbed the small mountain near my house to scope for some new material, I particularly kept my eyes open for wild Olive, but I found some strange and wonderful trees, most way too large to dig others impossible to...

Guys, yesterday afternoon I decided to go for a walk on the hill my house is situated to go and look at stuff I want to dig(BIG wild Olives) come spring(almost there) and as I headed down to the riverbank I entered a thicket of African hackberry. After looking around at some potential hackberry...

Here is the X media on the left before, I have only wired this tree once to set the primary branches in 2013 and left it to grow after a repot(2014) due to some health issues(very bad soil) I cut out the strong runners and removed very weak inner growth, then proceeded to giving it it's first...

Hi Guys :) thought i would share a small black pine I want to turn into an uprightish bonsai it was cut down from nursery material with some shoots down low 2 years ago I will try and find some starting off pictures but here it is today. so lets start the process from here: tree is about 16cm...

Good day fellow NUTS I just want to inquire if any of you guys are using any bonsai management software on your home pc's? If so what functionality does it provide and what functionality would you like in such software that is not provided at the moment It can be from repotting schedules to...

Hi Guys, I need a bit of information... It is decandling time in my neck of the woods for JBP. I decandled half of them very late in the season last year, say early autumn. Got nice back budding, though some of the shoots grew way too long and I can't use these shoots in my design. Can I prune...

Hello! I have a question I need answered I want to chop a black pine I have recently acquired down to a branch lower down on the trunk. Do I have to gradually reduce the top to try and invigorate that lower branch and not weaken the tree by taking off too much foliage in one go? Thnx...

Hello people I have a question. How much involume(liters) would a bag of 20kg pumice be?

Bare in mind that this was my first one, so I may have made some mistakes. Any comments and or advice welcome! A bit of history: I bought this pine as a seedling two years ago. The guy I bought it from only told me to cut back to the previous years growth in spring. It has never been...

So I'm new to this forum, and I have a lot of questions about pines, I'm from south africa so we don't have a lot of people training pines. Micorhiza (excuse the spelling) How does it establish itself if the pine was grown from seed in a sterile medium, will it be pressent after the pine...