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Here is an old idea - try a wire mesh pot that sits inside a bonsai pot, when on display. Anthony

40 years - 5 mm sifted silica based gravel - for mixing concrete plus aged compost and if needed 5 mm crushed red brick [ holds more water, climate - no rain 6 months, then around 6 inches monthly. Difference to US - not humid and breezy, Also 6 inches rain over...

@leatherback , the leaves die and are usually removed about a month later. Good Day Anthony

@Bonsai Noodles , it is just an old fridge, Good Day Anthony

This tree has no thorns. I will happily send seeds - free - when the virus is over. Seeds are normally - April / May Anthony Bark also flakes Surface roots are also odd, Cold tolerance ? trunk

Follows Northen Hemisphere Minimum is 6 weeks cold. 3rd week of January. Placed in the fridge in the the late evening. Temperature in the evening is around 22 deg.c Fridge is turned on when trees have been entered, Set for 10-8 deg. c Trees are well soaked and allowed to drip dry. Trees are...

5 mm silica based quartz plus Aged compost Ficus p. - 9 parts quartz 1 part compost soil mix taken from nature Without the compost this would be - hydroponics. Enjoying your research. Good Day Anthony

Clicio, not a Brt, but an ironwood from Brazil. Anthony

Just Teasing - okay Amateurs 4 years in 1/3 -55 US gallon barrel No thorns

Yes, since 1980 - Celtis, Gingko and Maples. Just check on the plants weekly. Info left on this site a few years ago, also check with Canada for maples. Good Day Anthony

look up - the ball bearing principle.

@Clicio . a tractor and a chain, couldn't remove it. K and a spade could. Get a cutting at least. Anthony Pink Pixie [ K's nephew, mix is English and Cocoa espanol [ Venezuela ] ]

Kung Fu / Chinese Movies 50 to 80's Lots of Penjing Way beyond Miyagi, Good Day Anthony Space 1999

To keep the hobby afforable- Do for yourself. Even the concave pruners from China are 6 to 12 US on Amazon. Tables are scrap hardwood. Anthony

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@0soyoung , J,B,pines, need sunlight on our side to shorten needles. They however have a hard time with our under 50 % humidity, sunlight and winds. More studies needed, Good Day Anthony

Just to be naughty Clicio. Indoor Oak [ was Nicodemia diversifolia ] Sub - tropical - can handle English unheated rooms [ 1800's ] age - maybe more than 8 years, Flower scent - Heavenly/ Soil 35 parts 3 mm silica based quartz 35 parts 3 mm crushed red brick 30 aged compost Watered twice...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RbQyz-5Q1E using an old explorer programme, google wants me to upgrade - hence the no image. Especially for @Carol 83 Enjoy Anthony

@Clicio , please be careful and as usual test on ependables. We did that compost tea bit some time ago, the plants got sick. There seems to have been a mix-up in information some years ago. Anthony

@ShadyStump , historically, the Chinese that grew Bonsai, were well off retired, on plentiful government pensions. Scholars who often lived in the Southern Mountains, finding excellent trees for free. Aside, only love works. I have the experience of raising two cousins of uncaring parents...

Hee Hee - @sorce The library here ended up more Chemistry. As in mole - mole. Inventing bodies, and non -toxic glazes from oxides. Same for the Jewellery - alloys. Good Day Anthony * independence from companies and bagged clay

Compost Tea - NPK - 1.1.1 Feeds what? Compost tea as an insecticide / fungicide - possibly NPK - 8-6 N 1-2 P 1-2 K [ fermented oil seed cake ] for trees in branchlet refinement. NPK 0ver 8 ............. is for ground growing, trunk thickening. Good Day Anthony

First a love of nature. MUCH later - Bonsai. Too many mental problems. Weed is for the elderly and the pains of age. How East Indians use it. Maybe join with the Art Teacher and see landscape. We have kids from the projects, they seldom get to the preferential schools. Children of unloving /...

@sorce , perhaps a suggestion of some simple pottery books - say, the two Walter Foster books on Pottery ? Good Day Anthony

Nicely done !