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  1. Nwaite

    Some of my 2018 collected trees!

    A few of the trees I dig this year.
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    A little palm.

    My daughter and I did this little planting this morning. I love having my kids share in this type of stuff with me. I hope ill have some tree's that they can take over when they are older(or I pass away) that they will remember hepling start.
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    First larg saikei (cliff side)

    Putting this up to keep track of progress on this project... Tonight ill just be attaching the larger rock on to my dish. I have a few more small one I can use if I wish that match this one. I'll have around 8 smaller fic .B cuttings I can use in a few days and a larger group of 3 ...
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    Advice on BUG INFESTATION!

    So hears the deal, If been putting this off for a year or so now and it's to the point where I need to do somthi g about it if I'm going to have more plants and def if I'm going to sell plants... I have around 30 plants in doors , house plants and bonsai... I have mealy bugs on a half my stuff...
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    Got a free ficus!

    Stoped at my locale plant shop to grab flowers for the old lady and they hooked me up with a free ficus ( last time I got a plant I found bugs on it when I got home) So I thought I would do some styling on it... what do you think. Going for a literati style, any hints or tips would be...
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    My Eastern White Pine ( MY FIRST TREE)

    This is the very first tree I started out with for bonsai. Went out on my driveway and grabbed on to it and pulled she right out of the ground. It was the middle of summer , took all the soil off with a hose, cut all the roots off and put it in this very pot with a mix of sand and some crap...
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    China Doll house plant

    Befor and after I'm going to cut more off the top, I just wanted to see how it responded to cutting and how it back budded b4 I got to crazy. I'll also put in a thinner wider pot next summer and spread out the plants to look more like a forest. This was early Sep it's pushed out small leave...
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    China Doll house plant

    Befor and after I'm going to cut more off the top, I just wanted to see how it responded to cutting and how it back budded b4 I got to crazy. I'll also put in a thinner wider pot next summer and spread out the plants to look more like a forest. This was early Sep it's pushed out small leave...
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    Trying somthing diffrent with a Money Tree

    My wife got me this little guy for my birthday and I think it's neat but I would like to try something else out with it. So I had thinking of unbrading the trunk and then fanning them out like in the beautiful picture I drew ... What do y'all think? Any one work on these guys I could use some...
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    Wal-Mart ficus ( first potting/trim)

    Hey every one, I got this guy last father's day at Wal-Mart... Put it up to almost the top of the bulb in dirt in hopes that it would grow some roots around the bulb and help fill it in a bit. Look like it work . I'm not sure were.to go from here. Think I should take off more of the top? And...
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    Making tools!

    As a hobby I get together with my younger bro and blacksmith ( for now ) ones a week. So I was this long of making some bonsai tools to sell online... this would help me save $ to go to buying trees, pots and tools I need that I can not yet make. My first attempt was this root hook. I only...
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    My first Coto neater an for $7 ! what next?

    Grabbed this guy's at lowes to day 50% off . Always wanted one . It had the thickest trunk out of the 5 left. Any abvic on how to go about starting this would be great.
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    styling advice in colected tree. Where to start?

    I dug this tree up about 2 years ago. It's still alive so I'm off to a good start. Its in the same soil i dug it up in. And i havent done any thing to it but fees an water. I'm not sure we're to go from here. Any suggestions would be great. Should I just let grow and slowly work on changing...
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    found me some nice white pines.

    Found a spot off the side of my drive full of small narly looken WP. Only dug up one... beat up some others and left them for another year. Any one know of some good reading material on w.p.? I have what I think is a nice one iv been playing around with for a few years but would like to get...
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    father's day trees!

    I thought I would start this a few days early just so it's up.. But I'm sure and hope I'm not the only one that get to go pick out a new tree for FD. If your wife or kids got you one let's see it! If you just so happened to go get one for your self because you such a great dad thats fine also.
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    can you ID this for me?

    Found this out back of my place this spring. I literally pulled it up out of the ground very easily.
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    Another shot at a hibiscus. Some advice please.

    I was having a shitty ass day at work today so my wife ( on her trip to town) Picked me up this hibiscus thinking I could make a bonsai out of it. I know it won't ever be a super good tree but I'll have fun with it and it did cheer me up to have her supporting my.... habit... Now I know the...
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    Need some advice on selling trees.

    So we're I live there's no one around that sells bonsai trees except Walmart. .. and that's just silly. .. So I was thinking of finding so pots I could buy in bulk online. Get some trees/shrubs from some nurseries and trim them up and do a repot . I wouldn't sell them as bonsai's ( I feel...
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    Show us your rocks!

    I didn't see a thread any were for people to post pictures of rocks they have found or bought to go with a planting in any way. Can't wait to see some of your collections. Here is a nice one I found the other day. I found a nice spot were a local college dumps there rocks after there classes...
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    Colorado Blue Spruces. starting of a group planting.

    I donated a big $10 to the Arbor day foundation awile ago... yesterday this showed up in the mail for me :) 10 Spruces and a few lilacs. I think I'm going to start a small forest with them.. with 5 any ways 1 for my wife and I and 3 for our kids. Maybe it will help get her on bord with the "...
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    jade plant pruning up. please help!

    Hello every one. My jade plant has started to look all prunny this past week. Just wondering if it's from to much or to little water.. or if maby it got to cold on other the nights? Any ideas? And do you think it will recover?
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    My shito pine

    Dug this up 2 years ago. Just wanted to post a pic and start a progress thread for it.
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    starting my r.o.r what do you think?

    Going to start a Ror ficus to night i ll post more pics tonight. But for now what do you think of the rock? I'll have the roots going down the left side and a few draped over the front on the ledge.
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    can you IDENTIFY? Pro's only!

    My sister sent me these seeds... this is how she got them in the mail. In a bag that just said bonsai seeds.. wtf. As far as i know there is no tree named "bonsai". Any chance any one knows what any of these are?
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    potentials for collection?

    I'll be going out as much as possible in the next week or 2 to collect trees. Thought I would post picks to see what you all thought. An hopefully give helpful hints and tips. Thanks. #1 is a maple with a good 2" trunk and about 1 1\2' tall . Didn't dig around the roots to much. It's still...
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