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  1. milkmanv1

    Help with a Japanese Maple repot/ tree not doing so well.

    If the tree makes it I'll definitely post some progress when I get around to my intended plans for the tree. Air layering to make 2 awesome trees (might be year....or three! haha). I'll see if I can pop over to a home/garden store and get some anti-fungal spray, wouldn't be a bad thing to...
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    Help with a Japanese Maple repot/ tree not doing so well.

    So I guess for now the best plan of attack is to make sure it stays dry until it needs water. I guess i didn't realize I should have waited to take the tree. Haste makes waste as they say. And is it unanimous that chopping it back to a stump (so that all the energy will go to the roots?) is...
  3. milkmanv1

    Help with a Japanese Maple repot/ tree not doing so well.

    Do you think it needs a more well draining soil mix? Or do I just need to let the soil dry out pretty well before watering.
  4. milkmanv1

    Help with a Japanese Maple repot/ tree not doing so well.

    Sorry for the blurry photo's but this should give you a general idea (mind you it's dark out and pouring again) The leaves are mostly brown and curled up, with a pretty high amount of die back, I've already taken off all the really dead leaves. Also a lot of the leaves are only parly red/green...
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    Help with a Japanese Maple repot/ tree not doing so well.

    So I just went back outside to double check the tree, and I found mealy bugs crawling on the base of it :mad:!!! There were only a few crawling on the stem, and only a bit of the white shit they put out around one or two low lying branches. No scales in the bark either. The soil is rather...
  6. milkmanv1

    Help with a Japanese Maple repot/ tree not doing so well.

    Hey guys, Just a few quick questions about a regular Japanese Maple that I uprooted from my other property (long story about the property, but yes I took the tree from property I own). Basically it's a pretty young tree (1-2 years old) that most likely started growing due to my mother's full...
  7. milkmanv1

    Little Juniper that won't root.

    Common chinese juniper, Juniperus Chinensus. I had rooting hormone on it previously, but like I said no roots. So I guess the last ditch effort would be to throw it in some perlite and sand, with one last dose of rootone and let it sit for the rest of the summer to see if there is any hope?
  8. milkmanv1

    Little Juniper that won't root.

    Like I said I know thats not exactly the most admirable course of action, but it's not like I hurt the plant, and it was a home depot, not a local bonsai nursery who actually puts a lot of time and effort into their plants. Regardless I kinda know by now that if the original cutting hasn't...
  9. milkmanv1

    Little Juniper that won't root.

    Ok guys, so I figured I might as well sign up, and post here to ask the question that since the other day has been burning me. In march I took (or I should say pilfered) a small softwood cutting off a home depot chinese juniper. It was just a spur of the moment attempt at starting bonsai...
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