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I have a tiger bark ficus. How do I get it to back bud?

I have a shohin trident maple in great health, pushing out new leaves. I want to try a free graft to place a branch on the trunk. Any suggestions. I know I could do an approach graft but I want the branch to exit on the side of the trunk and it seems that a free graft location would look better...

I just bought a 15 foot tall European Hornbeam tree. The base is 3 1/2 inches and beautiful; the tree is very healthy. I plan to do a chop and plant it in a large training box to an an informal upright. My dilemma is whether to chop it now and discard the top of the tree or to plant the...

I bought a great Oregon pine, I love the trunk. It looks like it has a graft. Do you think it's worth doing a bonsai with this tree? Will the graft blend in, Should I bury it below the graft?

This is my second pine, I bought yesterday.(Well my first is a mugo pine, still alive) It was in a 5 gallon pot from Lowes. The root was in 100% clay, so I removed half and put it in 50:50 pumice and lava. Its about 3 feet tall and the trunk is about 3 inches. I learned from my limited...

This is a canyon maple I potted in a training box about a month ago. I root pruned aggressively and did a chop. Its in pumice, acadama, slate and I put spang. moss around the base. It has some new tiny buds coming out, very exciting! I plan on doing an informal upright with a new leader each...

I have a spartan juniper I bought this year and put it in a large training box with 100% non organic soil. I is in the sun 6 hours a day and the foliage looks green and healthy.I removed about 50% of the nursery soil. I re potted it one month ago. I chopped 50% of the top off. My question is...

I have two Canyon or big tooth maples I bought and re potted them into a maple training box, similar to Peter Adam's book describes. There is a lot of information on trident and Japanese maples. Which one is the big tooth maple closest to? Both recieved chops, any advice on care and styling...

For deciduous tree cuttings, is it necessary to use rooting hormone powder. I am using sand.

I just bought a medium sized mugo pine from the nursery, it already has a 2 inch trunk. It is in excellent condition. It is in typical dense soil. I have read that the best time to prune the roots and repot a mugo, is in the summer, July or August. Could I repot it now without trimming the roots...