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Perlite How is the perlite holding up after the second winter? Thanks riley

16, and there is a good chance it will be at 20 by summer. I have killed more than I've kept alive...

Tri-pod Thank you for sharing. I agree with the rest that the video adds so much, and I hope quick 360 videos of trees become the norm for sharing. May I make a suggestion to use a tri-pod or table top to set the camera on? It would further increase the quality of your video and most...

It appears to have reverse taper about 1/3 of the way up. If this is the case, and not just a bad camera angle, then my opinion would be to layer it there.

Wait! We're not suppose to punch junipers anymore??? I didn't get that memo.;)

watch and re-watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn1FiRw2JBo

Personal Free Use Permit Call the district ranger station for the NF you want to collect from and ask them about getting Personal free use permits. You may have to speak to a few different people as the first two I spoke to had no idea what they were. I was told I could dig 5 per year from...

All the Ponderosa around here just dropped their old needles.

I cant upload photos.... If you use the right branch as you apex you'll have to bend it. But I don't think you want that section as your trunk since it has no taper. if there is a bud that will grow the direction you want the new leader to go then develop that bud and bend it to shape your...

trying to load a pic of my opinion... My main thought would be to not use either on the two branches you have pointed out. Use instead the second bud on the main branch(the one that your text box on the right is covering). Using the other two will put your foliage so far from the trunk...

a dog. Most grange supply stores will have the powders or preditor urin to deter the deer. Any place that caters to out door pot growers will have them as well.

Get a bow and shoot them. Cheap meat and safe plants.

How long do you keep them in the perlite? I would think perlite would start to break down quickly about second winter.

Lava and pumice do break down, but slowly. I'm hoping the grow stone are just as slow. Grow Stones have that "cheep" feel about them, which makes me think that they will break down faster. I read the University study they had done for green roof plantings and the test were not nearly...

Freeze thaw Their website says it has an equivalent freeze-thaw degradation rate as lava and pumice. Can anyone confirm this from experience? I was checking it out yesterday and it seems extremely light and fragile compared to both, which leads me to believe it would break down faster. I...

I guess I need to figure out where the junipers are. I haven't seen a single juniper when I've been out scouting. I hunt game and scout bonsai in the fall and dig bonsai and scout game in the spring. It's a nice cycle. I noticed a cedar the last time I went out to check my game cams. It...

What is the best time of year to collect Thuja plicata. Amkhalid said that the on this thread was collected in fall. http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?6940-Big-thuja-with-nice-base&highlight=thuga Does anyone out west collect their cedars in the fall? Is fall the optimum time...

John Naka Does anyone have a copy of Bonsai Techniques I or II they would like to sell?

To start, I am not giving advise but seeking it. First picture: A guy wire pulls the current leader down. Second picture: The resulting trunk lines. Blue line is the current leader, red line would be the new leader. I am not sure what you are looking for, as far as final design...

Just a thought Maybe something like this, but compact it more.

I have four in the ground as well not showing any of these signs. The black nursery pot this one is in gets extremely hot in the sun though.

Here are a few pictures of a plum stump I dug up this spring. I don't know what the problem is with these leaves. The affected parts of the leaves start out with a kind of have a grey to silvery almost translucent color on them. It looks almost like a thin film on the leaves but is in the...

Here are a few pictures of leaves from an air layered Nanking cherry. It looks, to me, like it has a magnesium deficiency. Can anyone confirm or suggest what it might be? thanks riley

How practical is this for watering? Do you poke holes in the foil or remove it completely before watering? This seems like a huge hassle...