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Where are you located? I have layered JBPs in one season from starting the layer to removing it from the parent tree. I am in Florida and therefore have long growing season to help. If you are in a less tropical climate that might stretch it another season. Good clean and sterile cut, proper...

Cool. Thanks for your response. As I mentioned I am good either way but I just can't deal with the non bonsai stuff anymore. I attempted to see if you would revert back to how it was before the karaoke bar. Few of us here now remember that time. How long ago was that? 2 or 3 years? If we meet...

I think it's time to bring this topic up for discussion. I apologize in advance if I insult you Mr. Nut as I really do believe you have a great site here but... I suggest (with all due respect) that the Karaoke Bar section of the forum be closed or locked for good. It's for the most part...

You are welcome Marco. I actually owe you a thank you for pizza and drinks one day at Jim Gremel's place. You were doing a workshop and I came to visit Jim with Brent and you insisted we join you for lunch. I believe you actually forced me to sit and eat - so thank you! I know the handles...

Wow. 23 pages of discussion on a "magical" $350 tool. Sad. Either buy it or don't. It won't make you any better will it? I am sure that the tool itself costs more than the average members most expensive tree for sure but... $350 is not a lot for a well made tool. I spent $399 yesterday...

What more are you looking for on grafting? My best advice is to get a bunch of root stock cheap and cut scions and graft them. Do 10 and see your survival rate. Practice is what you need to do, the more you do it the more you will become accustomed to the methods and procedures and the better...

Right on! Good stuff and good work.

Isn't depth of field great! I can't remember what you are shooting on but the addition of an off camera strobe or two would be a great addition to your photography arsenal. With snoots or grids you could have painted each tree with enough light from low shooting upward A great site to keep...

Someone else pointed this out - I believe the camera mounted flash created a double effect. Who took this photo? If someone is going to go to Japan and see the exhibit at least they could invest in a couple of radio controlled flash units and learn how to properly shoot with a strobe. All those...

I don't care how long it took Harry. I'm just glad you did it, took photos and posted it. Did you take more photos of your process? I think you may have a small photo essay with instructions in there. You know - for the sticks in the pots nOObs. And all this time I thought you were just...

How's this one - large enough? It's a club member's tree and I can't recall the exact size but it's pretty impressive. He has began training it in 1987 I believe. The cardholder is a baseball card holder for scale.

Nothing but the single survivor I described (and it's doing well). I did not have time to do it again this year.

Try this thread.

I like the concept of the live feed and I wil drop in at some point to see what is being offered on the feed. Not sure if the live feed will be live, or will be a loop or whatever else but I really like the idea and would like to say thanks for posting a link and sharing the idea. Best of...

Al, Thanks for the reminder to renew my subscription to Golden Statements. I look forward to the articles.

Or this link. All kidding aside I prefer bonsimonk.com as they are one state away from me and generally have a huge selection. Karen will also order one from the current tokoname catalog if she does not stock it when she places here big order twice a year. Doing so will save you freight but...

Cool but if the resource you are linking is deleted the photo will no longer appear in your post - correct?

Very cool pots! I was just wondering where you got a photo of my ex girlfriend? The second one looked familiar...

I looked at them both today, one was more dead than the other. I am guessing at this but potentially to much water. They were both in akadama, pumice and lava and it was free draining but perhaps not free draining enough with water 2 times daily. I also fed everything pretty heavily recently...

Bizarre but both the mother and the layer are dead. I have been so busy working the past few weeks I finally had some daylight today and to my shock I have 2 nearly all brown trees. They appear to still be getting water and three other shimpaku in proximity are fine so I am at a loss on this one.

Ever as Marco how he feels about the use of Italian and English in his homeland?

Man, ya'll can go from chatting water conservation to hating in 15 minutes. Judging from the current line of discussion I don't think there's any chance the hate well will run dry anytime soon.

Cool site - I like =tags&includes[]=title"]this one! It would keep people from picking the tree up as well. Thanks for the site link!

Amen Harry but we have the technology to do it. Tampa has the largest desalinization plant in north America and it works well but man is it expensive to operate. So much energy is needed they need to build right next to a power plant. The heavy concentration salt discharge is routed to the power...

Hi Daniel, I use the regular akadama in nearly everything (mixed with other soil materials). I have found that the high fired stuff actually seemed to break down faster here in Florida than the regular stuff. I know what you are thinking and it did not make sense to me either but I tried it...