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  1. delfiend

    What's the perfect species for me?

    Alright, hey guys. It's been a while since I've been on. Probably because my rosemary bonsai died from an outbreak of mildew I didn't notice in time and my boxwood bonsai I was starting died too because of some extremely dry weather. So I looking into getting back into the bonsai hobby, but I...
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    New Little Boxwood Shrub. First Time Trying to Make a Bonsai

    Hi! So I have my Rosemary bonsai that I bought pre-made, but as I was shopping for the flowerbeds and garden with my dad I found the shrubbery area and picked out myself a nice little Boxwood. I would have gone with a juniper if I could have found one, but I had no such luck. According to my 101...
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    Pests? Disease? What's going on with my tree?

    So my leaves are having weird things happening to them. First I noticed this: (two affected leaves with one healthy leaf as a reference; from left to right: healthy, affected, affected) The leaves were browning, but curiously only half of the leaf. From all the ones I've seen on my tree...
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    How does one encourage the growth of a new branch?

    So I just got my bonsai Friday, but already I'm starting to have an idea of what I want it to look like. It's pretty well shaped except that one side of it doesn't have much of anything on it. There's a spot where the other three main branches split off from the trunk where a new branch could...
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    Artificial Light

    So right now there isn't much sun where I live, and when there is it's very dim. It's too cold for my bonsai to be outside. Can I use artificial light? I've heard tale of things like grow lights that provide "artificial sunlight". But what is a grow light exactly? Because I have a lamp I use...
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    First Time Bonsai-er

    Hi! I'm Maddie, aka delfiend, and I thought that since I'm taking bonsai care and such seriously, I should join a forum where I could receive help from experienced bonsai people. It's worked for my when I bought new species of pets. No matter how much research I did, I always found forums the...
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