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  1. Alain

    BRT in Utah

    I just water my tropical once or twice a week during winter. Also I put some water in a container underneath the pots in order to have some humidity.
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    BRT in Utah

    I don't know the Utah climate but I had my BRT inside, without special light and not too much heat in IL last winter, it lost all its leaves but survived perfectly and grew like weed all spring and summer. For the present winter it is in a room in my basement (hottest part of the house) with...
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    White Sap on my Ficus

    Btw: take care a little, latex (ficus sap hence) could be irritant to skin and eyes.
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    Time for a smaller box

    Really nice! :cool:
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    can you collect trees in fall?

    I collect in spring for the 'regular collection mode' however I also have a 'Thanksgiving collection mode' with a different process: for the totally deciduous trees I collect them when they are in complete dormancy (i.e. no leaf remaining at all, this correspond to Thanksgiving here normally)...
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    My brazilian rain tree and I have a question for you...

    I bought 2 120W growing bulbs from Home depot (special light spectrum for growing plant) and a timer set-up at 12h a day and my BRT seems to love it.
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    Winning Trees.....Honestly Balanced.

    Oops, I missed this one contest... Nice job guys! :):cool:
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    information about Mugo pine

    Hi there and welcome! For mugo related questions jump on the train: http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/all-aboard-the-mugo-train.19019/ Otherwise, as @M. Frary says, no, it'so not a good time.
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    New Member Introduction

    Welcome and good luck with your junipers!
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    Some Little Tree in the Philippines

    My vision totally! Well in fact I saw a turkey. The 3rd one is awesome also.
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    Some Little Tree in the Philippines

    Well actually I love each side of this tree, if it was mine (I wish!) I will put it in a round pot :)
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    Some Little Tree in the Philippines

    Very nice and unusual tree! So unusual that for me the best front is actually a side, I just love the last picture :cool:
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    Bonsai Nut T-Shirts!

    Very Magritte of you :)
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    Do you root feed in the winter?

    I just put osmocote 14/14/14 on top of the soil during the falls and that does the trick until spring.
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    Thinking of picking these up...

    I agree with @Cadillactaste and $70 sounds like a lot to me due to the lack of really nice features on the maple. The bougainvillea looks much nicer to me.
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    Looking for advice for my New Bonsai's

    Hi there, Welcome! As for your trees: what you call an Hawaiian umbrella is in fact a schefflera and what you call a 'bougie' looks to me like a Chinese privet. For the schefflera normally you shouldn't have any trouble growing it indoor during winter (although the best is to put it outside as...
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    Hello and need help

    Welcome! For the schefflera: I don't get those trees and I definitively don't get how to make a nice bonsai with other than multi-trunks. I would be very interested to see the development of this one ;)
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    Can I repot now?

    Actually it's kind of ok to work on tropical basically all year long as they don't have a dormancy period so if they keep thrilling in their wintering setting why not do whatever you want to them? For example I had a tiger bark retusa 2 years ago and it took very well everything I did to it...
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    OT: In a modern day dogfight, how far can you visually see another fighter?

    Well I didn't at first neither. May be the fact that I'm French and not English speaker originally, know both 'cock' and 'pit' words but in other acceptations while 'cockpit' as always been a single word to me, and also the fact that I failed to make the link between, 'dogfight', 'cock', 'pit'...
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    Can I repot now?

    In fact Brent Watson is a partisan of re-poting in the falls as tree's roots keep growing for awhile after leaves have felt already http://www.evergreengardenworks.com/fallpot.htm However it might not be suitable to your USDA zone or types of trees. Personally I'm not against re-poting my own...
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    OT: In a modern day dogfight, how far can you visually see another fighter?

    Now I, personally, am sure that this 'cock pit' two words association really didn't mean what I thought it did... :)
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    Looking for info

    Yes people do that. I mean for northerners wanting to have tropical. The other way around might be trickier: a ficus will survive in WI and thrill when back to FL, some maples will have a lot of troubles going down FL after being born and raise in WI... I live in the N but don't have any special...
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    I have borers in my lilac

    It's bad. This tree has never been really healthy actually and I'm pretty sure that this was the coup de grace :) Luckily, as I said, I didn't like it and I have plans for much better there :cool: So be it! Thanks!
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    I have borers in my lilac

    Not a bonsai, luckily, but in a common lilac in the yard. The tree itself looks not too good. How do you get rid of them? Or is it easier to get rid of the tree that I kind of dislike anyway? If I get rid of it do I have to do something in order to prevent them borers to migrate toward another...
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    JWP Pick the front!

    Joke aside: the second picture if it was mine ;) Which it is not...:mad::(:mad::(:mad::(
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