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  1. BonsaiWilly

    How bad is this?

    To both responses, thank you very much for taking the time to respond and of course for the advice. To my neighbor, coltranem; yes we do have good nurseries here. I’ve only been to N.E. Bonsai once so far, was def impressed, there was a lot of great specimens there, unfortunately it was very...
  2. BonsaiWilly

    How bad is this?

    So I have this young honey locust; and also two questions about it. First, My Honey Locust has one branch (the upper branch) growing at an angle I liked. But, the lowest branch (circled in red, in the pic) shot straight up almost like the trunk, this didn’t please me. So my first question is...
  3. BonsaiWilly

    So not new, just nit advanced in Bonsai

    Yesterday and the day before.
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    So not new, just nit advanced in Bonsai

    I should also add, that the other parts of the soil are equal part sifted compost, about 50 percent of a local bonsai shops pre-made soil ( that consists of turface.) and sifted perlite.
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    So not new, just nit advanced in Bonsai

    So I was misinformed and thought coconut coir was a alright thing in bonsai. Well I added it to my soil recently and transpalted a few trees that began to bud recently. I live in New England, so it gets pretty cold, I also live in an apartment; so I kind of have to deal with limited storage...
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    Also have a style question for a jade

    First off, I would like to thank everyone for their replies. All of them where helpful. Sorry about the slow response, and the poor quality of the pictures; the phone I used is pretty old, well "old"cell phone wise that is. Also, sorry about the confusion; that's a Serrisa in the background...
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    Also have a style question for a jade

    Not really to familiar with these succulents here, but I like the way they shape up, and look in a bonsai pot. So I figured, I'd try my hand at growing this one; I started trimming it, and hit a point, where I could use some direction. So, I was hoping that maybe there is someone out there...
  8. BonsaiWilly

    First fertilizer of the season?

    Well they're granulated, don't know if that counts as pellets, sorry. But yes, I believe they are slow time released. Organic 4-2-3. So one is a 5 year old Dwarf Trost Birch tree, leaves are a couple days from being all the way out, the others are BloodGood maples, maybe two seasons old, one...
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    First fertilizer of the season?

    So I have an assorted pack of deciduous prebonsai trees in their pots, they've started pushing leaves. I'm wondering, if you had pellet type fertilizer, would you put that in when the buds just start to push, or do wait until all the leaves a fully out to apply?
  10. BonsaiWilly

    Post transplanting + right soil?

    Oh okay, yes and no, sorry to be so confusing, let me clear this up. Yes, I've had the pot for three years, the birch is the only tree to ever be in it. Which it is in now, after the soil was changed out. For this season I had no designs on transplanting it again. How ever, I did mention a new...
  11. BonsaiWilly

    Post transplanting + right soil?

    So don't ever repot it again, or just this season? If it had green buds on it should I have left it alone?
  12. BonsaiWilly

    Post transplanting + right soil?

    So once again, to anyone out there willing to bend an ear, and maybe throw in their much appreciated two cents. I have a lace leaf birch tree three years old...maybe give or take a couple months. It's from a cutting I snagged off of Amazon for a good deal. Anyways, right from the get go I put...
  13. BonsaiWilly

    Repot or not

    Just wanted to thank everyone for responding. I'm going for it, Transplanting ASAP. Still trying to read up on soils. I have a bit of premixed binsai soil, not sure on all the ingredients, but I do know it has Turface in it. And upon reading about Turface in the forums I tend to agree that it...
  14. BonsaiWilly

    handbuilt shohin pots

    Your very welcome, thank you for sharing. I love the glaze, you def are talented, have you been working with clay and or ceramics a long time ? p.s. If I wasn't broke as a joke, I'd be throwing all kinds of dough at ya!
  15. BonsaiWilly

    Repot or not

    Good to know, thank you for being so informative. I'm currently scanning the forums for a good affordable soil recipe. But how long of a window would you say I have? I only ask cause I have to save up for a new pot. Or I might just repot it in the same pot (that can be done right?). Plus I...
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    handbuilt shohin pots

    Those are really nice.
  17. BonsaiWilly

    Repot or not

    And that pic is the closest close up my camera could do, sorry it's an older iPhone, well older as far as iPhones are concerned. Thanks for looking.
  18. BonsaiWilly

    Repot or not

    Hello everyone, hope your all doing good. So I have a dwarf trost lace leaf birch tree. I wanna say I bought it three years ago. I planted it in fox farm Neptune potting soil. A lot of people told me it would smother in that soil but for the past two summers the thing has done awesome. There...
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    Dealing with possible mistakes

    I would also like to add that temps in the basement now range from 55 down to 48 degrees. Depending on temps outside. My weather app is still predicting below freezing temps at night for the week coming.
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    Dealing with possible mistakes

    Sorry I posted by mistake before I was done, so there's also a Dwark Trost Lace leaf Birch, I bought off of Amazon. The birch I'm worried about more than others it not only is in a cooler in the basement it also is in a potting mix which now understand is the wrong soil. It's done well until...
  21. BonsaiWilly

    Dealing with possible mistakes

    Hey thanks for the replies everyone, and sorry for the vagueness of my post. So to add to the post. Okay so the three season porch, it's basically an enclosed porch, no insolation. Basically it just blocks wind and rain, the temp inside for the most part is always equal to the temp outside...
  22. BonsaiWilly

    Dealing with possible mistakes

    So I stored my little trees in the basement this winter. It was pretty cold this winter; normally I keep them on a three season porch, that only see's sunset. We went through a long cold spout, so I put them in the basement cause I was afraid of freezing the root ball. The basement is old and...
  23. BonsaiWilly

    S.O.S. for bloodgood

    ah thank you Dav4 Yes there is drainage holes, four in diamond pattern, about a quarter inch wide. The soil is a mix of peat, compost and just some reg soil. You make a very good point with the warming up of the porch. I would have taken it out sooner, but a man from a somewhat local bonsai...
  24. BonsaiWilly

    S.O.S. for bloodgood

    Sorry, I'm not sure where my posts are going. this is also from last season. And yes it does get watered almost every day so far. I test for moisture by feel, it's usually pretty dry in the AM. It sits on a second floor covered porch. It gets a good amount of Sun from sunup to somewhere...
  25. BonsaiWilly

    S.O.S. for bloodgood

    Yup watered every day this is also from last season. And yes it does get watered almost every day so far. I test for moisture by feel, it's usually pretty dry in the AM. It sits on a second floor covered porch. It gets a good amount of Sun from sunup to somewhere around 2:10. Then when I...
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