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    Selling my collection

    Facebook is for selling things to unhappy people, I have spent thousands promoting ads on FB and it is much more specialized than Google Adwords. With FB you can create visual ads that appear to specific users down to a very extraordinary level, you can make it so specific that only the exact...
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    Caring for an indoor Old Gold bonsai.

    I know a conifer that grows very well indoors, the Norway Spruce. Ive seen these as houseplants live for years in a dim room that is only infrequently lit by a 40w incandescent bulb. They sell these at the grocery stores around the holidays as a living x-mas tree.
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    Fertilization guide by species?

    Ive been using Biogold in addition to fish emulsion every few weeks in the spring. The fish stuff costs a fraction of the imported Biogold, but smells awful and attracts bugs and animals after use. Last time I ordered Biogold I forgot I accidentally sent it to my business P.O. at a shipping...
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    What is a descent kind of novice toolkit for bonsai and where can I get them.

    You only will really need one main bonsai tool, the concave cutter. I am happy with a pair I got from stone lantern for less than 50$. after that the two most used tools of mine would probably be a pliers and wire cutter. I have a jin pliers and a wire cutter but use a high quality...
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    The Car Thread

    Everytime I see a Ghia my heart misses several beats while my eyes and brain take over. Got rid of my 955 this summer after 6 years, I turned my own wrenches for challenging tasks and expanded my skill and understanding of automotive mechanics greatly. Replaced it with a base model 958 for our...
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    The “clearance plant, cheapo” thread

    I dont like nursery plants because even if they have a good; trunk, movent, branching, and shape they will always have a hodgepodge root system. Like Wilson's fine trees, they each look like they have maximum 2 roots at the top root level and they aren't even very horizontal. I've been pursuing...
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    Official Cobra Kai discussion thread

    Halloween pic, 16 month old Broderick as Johnny Lawrence.
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    The “clearance plant, cheapo” thread

    Your posts should come with a disclaimer reminding people that you (and I) live in zone 4 where we have a mere 6 months a year that less hardy trees rest in cold frames, and we don't have a bonsai nursery for 100's of miles around us. Down south or out west one can throw a cutting on the ground...
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    Hello just bought a dwarf blue orchid tree

    Yes I see it now, it looks like it could be an interesting tropical and if you got it from Wigerts its probably a decent value. Cheers!
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    Hello just bought a dwarf blue orchid tree

    An orchid tree hmm. Is it an orchid with old growth like a stalk or trunk or is it some other flowering plant? Only similar plant that comes to mind is the magic bonsai seeds on ebay that supposedly grow a bonsai species no-one has ever seen before.
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    Mountain Meadows Nursery - why are you not visiting yet?

    This is a really good reason for me to visit my brother and his fam who recently moved to NC. Will visit
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    Bonsai Gardens of Japan, or... How I Spent My Summer Vacation

    I was paging through a 1995 issue of bonsai today recently and loved the advertisements at the back. Seeing websites like www.geocities.JimDonald/Coollittletreesbonsaifarm.net on ads in a magazine was timeless.
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    Online Bonsai

    I've bought about half of my collection online but its the more significant half... In Minnesota we don't have bonsai nurseries, I have taken to trying to encourage friends and other club members to open one and assure them that I will be a customer. my tip would be to search the suggestions...
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    Official Cobra Kai discussion thread

    I think B+ is pretty fair, You have to take it for what it is; a non-pretentious series where the characters draw you in. It gets compared to stranger things and I think I preferred Cobra Kai more. Goofy, campy, low-budget it may be but the fact that its not characters battling CGI monsters is...
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    Official Cobra Kai discussion thread

    Danny monetized his bonsai teachings Here's Danny's Car commercial And his competitor's Resolution- one of my favorite lines, "you imply I'm a water-waster?" California is interesting isn't it.
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    Official Cobra Kai discussion thread

    didnt notice the floating stand, nice catch!
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    Official Cobra Kai discussion thread

    If you haven't started watching Cobra Kai which picks back up with the main characters from The Karate Kid you definitely should (netflix). There is a lot of bonsai in the show so lets dig in; Miyagi and the actor that played him have died, in one scene Daniel visits his teacher's grave...
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    Tropical bonsai light / display for winter?

    In zone 4ish here I have to protect a lot of species. I use a 4x4x7 grow tent with a full spectrum LED (1000 watt-150$ on amazon) and that thing is bright, if I would open the tent just a bit with it on my eyes would hurt. I've read the reccomendation is to not look at them without eye...
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    How to Introduce Bonsai to Teenagers?

    We had Mr. Myagi growing up.
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    Scots Pines

    Its what paradox said....... Your time would be better spent growing from seed than trying to grow all new branches or doing a redic air-layer (we're talking several years here
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    Please Participate in an Important Community Discussion.

    Guess I came in on the wrong side of the majority on this issue. I personally saw bnut as having a mission of crowd sourced collective knowledge bonsai practices. I'd like worthwhile info/threads/pics to still be here decades from now as opposed to archiving all the drivel. On a brighter note...
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    When to apply cut paste

    Some Larches I collected this April were suffering in the summer heat, the top branch all but fried and I figured it was losing moisture from its chop. We are moving currently so I didn't have what I normally use, but I did have some gorilla glue handy, they bounced right back. Normally for...
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    What's your dream tree?

    The tree I would wish for is a large Bristlecone Pine like the one in my Avatar. I think it would be cool to have a bonsai thats thousands of years older than ancient Greece, Egypt, or Jesus.
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    moving from wisconsin to minnesota.... how to move the bonsai

    Ahh welcome to MN (soon) I am sure we will eventually meet at club event eventually, maybe. I don't know what type of rental van you will be using but Dave is reminding us that most moving trucks are made to be a little modular and can be outfitted for a specific task. Most all will have a...
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