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Howdy, Been a good while, but I'm still keeping after my bonsai trees. I have three Black pines that are pre-bonsai. Two of them have not yet darkened the needles from their early growth light green to a mature darker green this year. I'm afraid that this is an early sign of the tree showing...

Afternoon Gents. I'm wondering how do you guys go about determining when it's time to cut a sacrifice. I have two pines in development stage, they both have sacrificial apexes and I'm wondering when to cut that apex and determine a new apex. Since my pines are still developing I assume I...

This is how I maintain my bonsai scissors. I will first point out that I say that I am 'maintaining', and that is true, this is not a full sharpening but instead something that I will do after repeated use to maintain the edge. I do not misuse my scissors and therefore I do not need to work...

This is how I sharpen my grafting knife; I have a few important tools for this; DMT flat coarse diamond plate Naniwa Chosera 1000 & 3000 Shinden Yama Renge Suita Tomo Nagura Water Rubber mats I have two diamond plates, I decided to switch the better one right off the bat...sorry for the...

I have been watching my JBP's push new growth this spring with great enthusiasm. However, I've started to wonder when I should expect adventurous buds to begin forming on branches that were cut back last fall?

Howdy, I have a Korean Hornbeam which has already broken two buds....is it too late to repot for this season? I have a feeling I should have done so earlier but it has been frozen solid for weeks.

As promised; Sorry have not been chronicling the joinery or dimensioning of lumber. Everything so far has been dimensioned by hand from rough sawn lumber. Bottom support will be detailed with angled cuts. Mocked up. The top will have a batten along the length and will...

I saw this stuff on a few sites, wondering if you guys have used it and liked it? I have a handful of approach grafts planned for this coming growing season and wouldn't mind putting this to use if it works well.

I want to run my plan by you guys and see if there is room for improvement. I have a JBP, it's about 15" tall currently in a regular garden container (1 gal). I slip potted it, broke up the root ball lightly and removed the roots that were ringing the bottom of the container. I clipped a few...

White Oak Bench Build Started building an outdoor bench for my trees, wanted something low so that they are easy to water. I'm building this in white oak and utilizing interlocking joinery which should allow it to survive many years in full sun. I find it important that outdoor furniture...

Afternoon! I bought this plum back in May, here it is then: This is late June: Here it is now: I'm attempting to grow out the apex a bit, I think it needs to really get green up there, plenty of budding so that shouldn't be too long in the making. Just wondering how I'm doing in...

The far corner is growing in size;

Dallas Bonsai -Resolved This ranks among the worst experiences I've had with a retailer. They have been completely non-responsive, do not pick up calls and do not return emails, and did not ship for 8 days after receipt of the order after paying extra for better quality service. When my...

I am hoping to make some connections in regard to ramification. For instance, if I trim a branch back on any of my trees, is this branch always going to bud back on the branch? So far most of my pruning ventures have been in the way of cutting low branches, shoots that go straight up and...

I can't offer much in the way of my own work at this point, however I was quite impressed with the collection of Bonsai trees at Huntington Gardens in my recent visit;

Howdy, I want to keep a Japanese black pine in my garden, at about 4' tall, wondering what sized pot would be appropriate for this.

Hi, My trees have far more experience in bonsai than I do at this point, so I would like to introduce myself and say that I'm a proud owner but have little to no idea what I'm doing. I am your clay to mold, so to speak. Juniper: Plum: Those shots are at the nursery, so I will update with...