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your a jack ass.

thanks, sounds like you would not have a very high success rate w/ the trees I work with. Where I'm from we DONT disturb what root system we where able to get at time of collection, once home. That's a good way to ruin all your hard work. Cant take short cuts w/ these old trees. JE

What techniques do you use to 'properly' deal with 'root issues' at collection time? As to the three trees, Limber is pretty sweet.

My Ponderosa, before and after J

Ha, will do Dick. I was thinking of asking dkraft same thing. What elevation are you collecting at? here in the PNW mid july is when areas above timber line are snow free enough to go collecting. nice looking trees by the way. JE

Just depends on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go. most people start w/ inexpensive material and increase the amount they spend w/ how "into" bonsai they get. j

Thank you very much for the kind words. If I had to choose a favorite species for bonsai it would have to be the Mt hemlock. They do have a limited range where they can be kept, a few just came back up from northern California after declining in health over a couple of years spent there. Would...

Very nice as usual Mach 5. Here is a Mt Hemlock I collected in the Cascade Mountains here in WA State. First styling last year.

Nice pot, I think removing the "cage" of a traditional pot will compliment the wild side of this tree. nice work. Jason

Second what Yenling said about batches varying. Recently picked up a sizable load, prob, 1/2 was unusable being very fine/dust.

If you want some nice material you have to pay...think about what you paid for material when you were starting out. Are you spending more now.? I'd much rather have one $900 tree than 9 $100 trees. I bet those w/ nice trees in there collections have spent more than that on one tree. I guess...

sub-alpine fir untrained

Shohin JBP

Mt Hemlock.

Hi Guys and gals, first time posting here. thought I'd jump in and show a rhodie I collected a few years back...