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I have a seedling I grew. I have no idea what this is, I traded a surprise set of seeds with my friend.

I tried airlayering a small JM branch. I put the sphagnum around the cut and wraped it with plastic foil. The branch, as seen on the picture, died or at least all the leaves dried out. What went wrong?

I still have a hard time to figure out when to repot conifers... In this case a juniper (that was not well cared for obviously...) This are it's "buds" right now... Is it ready?

Rivers... Roots... Rorschach...

So before one collects (some) yamadori he must trench around the tree. This produces compact rootball which will be easier to collect later. The tree will also have more chances in surviving. When and how do you do this? How deep and how far from the tree?

Hi all! Ok so I must admit my horticultural knowledge is not very good. But I try to get as much as I can from anything I can read and see. But my main problem is when it comes to roots. Mostly this: Why can the tree be repoted only in certain time of the year? Spring that usually is. Why then...

Hi! As stated many time a good virtual image is an essential part of bonsai styling and development. Old school bonsaists used drawings, and many still do. I am very bad at drawing (at the level of 6 year old) so this is ruled out for me. Others nowadays use pictures + some kind of software to...

Hi all. I have collected this yamadori red pine early this spring. It had a few browning needles then if I remember correctly, but I think now there are more. It is planted in pure vulcanic soil and has been fertilized once per two weeks with anorganic fert and with pellets of organic fertilizer...

I find this very interesting. Has little to do with bonsai (or does it?), but maybe someone will find it interesting...

Hi Common juniper is mostly feared by bonsaist. I've heard that they are not an approriate juni for bonsai because they are almost impossible to keep alive in a pot. Is that really the case? I found this on bonsai4me: Common Juniper/J. Communis J. communis is the only truly native Juniper in...

OK. Someone will probably role his eyes, because I will post such a stupid question. But I've serched some stuff and can't find right guidence. When to repot a juniper? Considering physiology of tree (juniper in my case). What signs should I watch and say, yes I can se this and that, now is the...

Hi all! I know this is not the kind of forum I should be posting this, but what the heck. I have a problem at my home. I'm not very electrical kind of guy, so these questions may be easy to answer to some with more experience in this field. I bought a 5730 LED lights from ebay, of consumption...

Hi! OK, I've been reading many threads, and I like the progression series ecpecially those with pics. So I want to give back to community and hope to get a few tips along the way. Now, this is a story all about how. My life got flipped-turned upside down. And I'd like to take a minute. Just sit...

Hi! OK, I know this is a strange thread, and I know some my role their eyes when they see it but what the heck. I would like to know if anyone has personal experience on cooking Lime Sulphur (Sulfur). Is anyone Heisenberg on field of lime sulphur? I need to know because there is almost no way of...

hi! While reading different threads here I also find very different approaches on how/when to fertilize the trees. I know that there is no one correct method, I believe that there are many different approaches that work and show good results. I personaly use a fertilizer that I mix with water...

Hi! I potted a yamadori in a container a month ago. It's a medium size hornbeam. I have not pruned it before I took it away, so my question is should I do it now? The buds are starting to open and leaves cn be almost visable. So when I choose the front, can I make a branch selection by...

hi all! I was wondering when I should perform an uro on my decidious tree, but then read some posts to get the idea. A previous thread on this forum does not come with a straight answer which only means that it probably does not matter that much. I hope.... So to my question. I don't have the...

Hi! I got this and I'm having trouble identifiyng the species of this bonsai. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks