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Sounds like a plan I should get around to that this weekend. The sunshine to be waking up the trees the past few days!

Thanks and thats some encouraging advice! What kind of fertilizer do you recommend? I should start that after their needles are full too, but should I repot now?

Yeah #3 is the biggest and most mature of the bunch but needs ramification. Like all of them I am really happy to have it and can't wait to start working them over the next couple years.

Thanks! The last one has a real sense of movement that the picture only touches on. Very promising! A few years of ramification and trunk exercises and they'll be looking pretty decent.

First time putting pictures up here, and I chose to put up my prebonsai tamaracks. With the nice weather and I just pulled out the tamaracks so... Anyways I was kinda anxious and didn't quite clean them up but I pulled out all the litter and stuff after the pictures were taken. Larches are my...

Actually for the past two weeks we've had temperatures in the 70's to upper 80's and as high as 90's. The nights have been not particularly hot but a few cooler nights

No it was collected in May. At that point it was just about to bud, then they came out at the usual time. Then they sort of stopped growing and then the whole thing started. Utica area btw. But anyways, I may be early in saying this but it may have stabilized. I managed to get a good...

The problem is that there is two to five inches of topsoils that consists of sand and decayed organic matter with moss on top where the four larches were collected. The roots spread out over a large radius, while a majority of root ball is within one foot of the tree, but linearly. The other...

It always seems drained but I will have to pull it up just to check on the soil. Perhaps it is overwatering (it was recently collected and may have been in shock longer than I thought) and I was compensating because it is on the larger side (larger than my previous larches). The loamy, dark soil...

About 20 years old. Watered everyday except when it rains. Had about 1/4 sunlight throughout the day but moved it to almost total shade yesterday. No elongations or fertilizer except some light rooting hormone I put in the soil in the beginning. It is in a mix of loamy soil and sand (65-35 I...

One of my recently collected Larch seems to be going off the deep end. At first it seemed healthy but now the lower smaller branches have gone and the upper, dominant branches are going. The obvious reason was that in the process of transplanting it I did not manage to get enough of the root...

So to clarify, you are trimming the needles off except on just a few of the buds, and then plucking off the rest of the needles, and you do this process twice, once in summer then in fall? I'm just a little confused here sorry can you just be more specific on this part of the process?

Just wondering. Though there are several methods for ramification in pine and such, I don't recall any methods particularly for larch. Does anyone have any suggestions for what works for you?

I had beautiful dreams of bright skies and soft ground as I dug out the larches and hemlocks this year. They have been pretty much ruined. For now. Unfortunately the schedule has been ruined by the very late winter, a winter whose unanticipated heavy and plentiful snow has clear cut the tops...

Lots of great potential. It would look great with long branches sloping down as if weighted from years of snow falling on them. This would especially enhance the tall deadwood as well.

Just a general inquiry into the subject. I have heard of fiberglass screen covers for windows, but I am a tad concerned about chemicals. Steel mesh is fairly inexpensive as well, and seems widely used. I have also heard of coffee filters as well, and I am rather interested in that. So thoughts?

Beautiful little shohin. I'm between #2 and #4 personally. #4 shows good trunk and profile, but #2 is interesting as well.

Great material! I especially like the tall-ish larch in the center of the first picture. Good luck! I am greatly anticipating collecting some larch myself this season, especially seeing some great larches around the forum lately.

Quite a beautiful transformation.

Absolutely incredible work. Arguably true mastery of the material. Incredible.

Lime sulfur was never my thing. Just seemed too white for me. A majority of the trees I base my mental images of bonsai are a result of the Adirondacks, where deadwood is either fresh or old and grayed. Sure it can be beautiful with a great juniper or pine, but with the locally collected larches...

Absolutely love these larches. Quite beautifully done. I do love a good larch when I see it. Glad to have you posting.

I don't often post here, but this is quite a beautiful tree! Excellent execution! I rarely see a windswept tree that I like, but this little larch here is extraordinary! Cheers!

Loving how it looks. Appears as if you have multiple choices as to styling, as it has a multiple possibilities. Seems like it is flexible in design. Walter Pall's larches should give you some good inspiration, as it does for everyone. Looking forward to seeing it soon with future styling.

Who doesn't find forestry absolutely fascinating?!? It is a small passion of mine, though I am educated only in my logic, not college. Though on a few occasions, my logic has been my failing. Nevertheless, my favorite Hemlock Grove is the Route 9 Trailhead area of Rocky Peak Ridge in...