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  1. aml1014

    down sizing for a move

    Hey nuts This morning I decided I'd start adding some of my trees on here to get rid of. I'll be moving to a new house June and am unsure as to how much space I'll have, and need to down size my collection. Most of what I post will be trees that need to grow out or have a small amount of...
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    The mystery pine

    So this week my buddy Adam and I went and made a trade with each other. I gave him a nice gray oak that needs some years for the branching to thicken, and I gother an ume and this little shohin pine from him. I'm extatic about the ume as I've wanted one for a long time now. The thing is we have...
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    My new garden...for now

    Hey nuts, I'm sure some of you have seen in other threads that my fiancé and I split earlier this month. Because we were living with her parents and paying them rent, it was time for me to head out. Luckily my mother told me that my trees and I are always welcome to stay any time. I did find an...
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    Todd Schlafer workshop... and my Douglas fir

    Hey everybody. This weekend was the Todd schlafer workshop at my local club. I didn't have any trees really to do a workshop like this so I went ahead and ordered this beautiful old Douglas fir from @arcina at chobomsaiyamadori.com. Gothe it for a great price and it turned out great after Todd...
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    Literati ponderosa pine styling opinions

    Hey tree nuts, Last week I recieved this ponderosa pine yamadori from @arcina . I knew when I purchased it that it would obviously be a literati style tree. First off, here's pictures of when I acquired it. Now I had two options, bend it up and make it about 6ft tall, or bend down and keep it...
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    Time to collect a couple elms....

    Or actually a forest load of them. Last week I was given permission by the forestry supervisor for the city to collect in the Albuquerque bosque. I'm free to take elms, tamarisk, Russian olive, mulberry, basically anything non native to the area (invasive species only). Last night my buddy Adam...
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    Grape carving project

    Hey everybody, Today I got in my new baby that I won on the .99 cent auctions page on facebook.:D It's my first grape and it has an awesome 10 inch base that is basically all dead wood. I snagged this up for a heck of a deal so I figured I could make it into a fun carving project this season...
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    Tropical experiments

    Hey nuts, Today I got an idea to induce some aerial roots on the trunk base of my ficus benjamina I've had since I was a kid. A couple days ago I repotted the tree into a 12"×12"×6" grow box, and today I decided to try my idea. Here's the tree before What I did was take plastic wrap and...
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    Sick willow oak help

    Hey everyone, today my buddy offered me a trade for this willow oak he had that hasn't been doing well and he figured I could save it. I'm pretty well convinced it's a fungal problem but would like some advice. The tree grew this spring the started doing terrible in summer. It dropped all its...
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    European olive root cutting?

    Hey nuts, This morning I was working on repot ting and pruning back my European olive as it was going nuts and I felt it was a good time. While repotting I removed a root about .5" thick and about 5" long. My question is if anyone knows whether olives will grow from root cuttings? I stuck it in...
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    Sometimes you DO get what you want... Bougainvillea

    Hey nuts, For the past week I've been watering my buddy's tropicals for him while he's on vacation. It was this morning while at his house, that I realized between me and my 2 buddy's who practice bonsai, I was the only one without a decent sized trunk bougainvillea. I shot them both a text in...
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    Fun with Shapecrete

    Hey everyone, yesterday I got a 20lb bucket of shapecrete to play with. I've already made 3 pots, 2 are in molds and 1 is a Shito sized freeform pot. The little pot has already dried enough to handle (though recommended 24 hour dry time) so I figured I'd start a thread to share the pots I make...
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    Black mulberry progression

    Hey nuts, Today I wanted to start a thread on the mores nigra I've had since april 2015. I'm actually quite pleased with the progression of this tree in just 2 growing seasons. Here's as I acquired it the 19th of april last year. Here it is pruned back and repotted into pumice and seramis...
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    'Jabba's baby' tiger bark ficus

    Hey nuts, Yesterday I went over to my buddy @abqjoe 's house to help him out with some stuff, in return he gave me this tiger bark ficus. So now I'll explain the name that I gave the tree, Jabba's baby. This tree was sent to Joe from Don, along with this beautiful suthin ficus. You can see the...
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    Literati camellia

    Hey nuts, Today I wanted to 1. share my new camellia and 2. ask a question. Today at work I caught the lady Madeline in the greenhouse tossing some camellias in the dumpster. Of course I snagged them and took them home. One is on the verge of blooming so I went forward and did a styling. they...
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    My mame thread

    Hey everybody, I decided to start a thread to keep track of all of my mame. My teacher gave me 15 mame pots yesterday and I've been repotting most of my tropical mame into nicer pots. Here's the batch she gave me, some she made, some are from Japan when she went a long time ago, and some were...
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    Hollow trunk Laurel Oak

    Hey everyone, Today I wanted to finally start a new thread for my Laurel Oak. I bought this tree earlier this spring and it's progression since then can be seen here http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/a-couple-new-trees-from-wigerts.23040/ . Basically I got the tree from wigerts and progressively...
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    Collecting elm in late autumn

    Hey everybody, Recently I've acquired the permission to collect elms from an area near a ditch that is absolutely littered with them. Ive collected quite a few elms in spring and always have great success, but considering there are dozens upon dozens, I figures I'd like to try and get a few now...
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    Thunderhead JBP

    Hey everybody, a couple weeks ago we got thunderhead JBP in at my work. I've been inspecting them here and there everyday and decided yesterday to get the one I found myself looking at most. It has nice movement and a nice smooth graft. Here's the tree before any work (still at my work lol)...
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    Biggy the Benji...A long term project

    Hey nuts. Today I scored this big ficus benjamina. It was put on Craigslist about a month ago and apparently not a soul was interested, so the owners called the nursery I work at and asked if anyone was interested. Well I got the word, called them back and got the word that I could go get it...
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    40 year old legacy jade

    Yesterday while I was at my teachers house helping her store some trees that are already dormant. When I was getting ready to leave she remembered that she had a jade she didn't have space for anymore and couldn't even lift it anymore, so she offered it to me. The story goes that her passed...
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    Collected hawthorn from JudyB

    He everybody. A couple days ago I got the hawthorn that I bought from @JudyB 's fall sale and wanted to start a new thread for it, here's the original thread if you'd like to see its progression. http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/sulking-hawthorn.6056/ Just a quick picture of it after it was...
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    Pot suggestions please!

    So my fiance gave me a 200 dollar limit to pick out a bonsai pot for my birthday. I've never spent anywhere close to that on a container and know that I'd like to get one for my large gray oak. I was thinking a round or oval pot as I feel it wouldn't look right in a rectangle or square. Here's...
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    Benjamina cascade

    Hey everyone, tonight I was kinda bored and decided to do some work on a ficus that's an air layer from my biggest benjamina. I've been unsure what to do with this tree as it had branches coming from mostly one side and it was tall and thin. So I decided it was flexible enough to start a cascade...
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    Japanese white pine in New Mexico? Let's see how this goes.

    Hey everyone, last week I was lurking on the Facebook bonsai classifieds and saw this Fukuzumi JWP that Mark Comstock had for a good price. I've heard many horror stories from older people in my club about JWP dying here in about 4 years average, but I had to try it myself! The tree has a 2.5"...
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