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And finding a non green hobby is not an option unfortunately. I love bonsai. I used to actually be pretty good at watering, then life shit happened and made it more difficult to remember.

I put the Amazon bought water wicks in, the yarn did seem to be working somewhat. My next idea is getting a 50 gallon bucket and attaching some sort of hand pump sprayer. The hose attachment is on the back side of the house where the trees wouldn’t get sun. I’m just trying to make an easier way...

I totally agree. I’m going to try to get a watering schedule. I’m hoping that this may help me along the way

I just suck at remembering to do it, i know its a ridiculous problem, but that's my biggest issue

i got the wicks from amazon but havent put them in yet. yea i work nights as a rn, so my schedule is all over the place

so far it seems the water at least does go to the pots, but doesnt seem to spread out too wel

Sounds like i need to look into an automatic sprinkler system. Yea i work nights and bunches of days in a row, which doesn't help my routine. the trees i have plugged into these things are worth whatever it took to put some cuttings, and two easily dug trees. one is a trident i bought for 20...

I’ve tried that, it never worked right. I’m sure I could do it again and do a better job at it but I’ve since just asked my kids to water when they remember, asked my wife and I do it myself too. Between the group of us the trees get watered, but it is not at great consistency. It seems like...

The tubes go into the soil alittle and I spread the yarn out around the pots, not sure how well that’ll work or if the soil will just take the water off the yarn as soon as it hits soil. Each tube has about 4peices of yarn, and no clue what type of yarn it is? Regular yarn my wife had and said...

My biggest weakness is watering my trees. I put some yarn, inside a plastic tube running from a bucket of water to a few pots. All are trees I’m just barely starting, some cuttings. I plan to not water other than with this method and see how they do. Thoughts? will this work? Will the soil stay...

This is a bit of a throwback, but in a bonsai life it’s not. I’ve done this method over backyard fire with a hot bed of coals. Th picture is what most of them look like.

Picked this one up today at the nursery, I think I got a pretty good one, cost $20. I cut two branches down low that felt too thick. What do y’all think

The first one is an elm I think, the second is an oak? Was hoping for some help with ID

How’s this one doing?

The photos are nice, background looks like more to collect in those hills

My elm is now trans-poplar (Carolina, black or Lombardy. based on leaf-id.com) My daughter chose the design

Yea, the plan is now just grow. I’m looking into repotting. When I do it’ll be primarily to get it into a big enough pot to grow. It’s definitely a long way from looking beautiful, but to me it can certainly become awesome.

I tried to get some better pics. It’s still hard to tell what’s what, I think it does show it alittle better

The bankan is a good set of examples. Correct, I'm not actually tying knots, just bending and twisting as extreme as possible.

I'm pretty sure I saw a thread on here about it a while ago, but I cant seem to find it

thats the idea, just trying to make crazy bending while i can, and let it grow

The idea would be a knot like some old junipers look like. Ill see if I can find a pic