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... Radiata thank you very much for your kind comments, I will try your hypothesis, I think it´s perfectly valid for our weather, sun lighting, etc., I will keep you updated. Here is a recent picture, sorry for the background, I hadn´t time to set something better up. I haven´t work on it for a...

Re: Japanese maple seedlings Thanks Bill, That information is really helpful. I will pot these into bigger pots, and I´ll wait for the other seeds to germinate.... TWO YEARS... Napo

Hi everyone, Again, I have a question. I sowed some Japanese maple seeds last December, now I got some seedlings, the germination rate was quite low (7 out of 30), they are placed in a germinating tray with individual cells 1 inch by 1 inch and 1 1/2 inch in depth. They now are 3 months...

Hi Guys, Thank you very much for the comments, sorry for not responding before, I had been a little bussy studying for a TOEFL and a GRE test (I´m applying for a scholarship in the US)... This tree is everwhere and grows like weeds, unfortunately it has some characteristics that are not that...

Hi bonsainut, You are the third person that says that could be a japanese cedar, I´m very happy, also you are the third person that tell me that isn´t a Eucalyptus, now I think that could be a Corymbia citriodora or a Corymbia ficifolia, they belong to he same family Mirtaceae. Thank you...

The rest of the pictures, Eucalyptus

Hi Bonsai fellowship, Can someone please identify what these guys are? I bought them a couple weeks ago from a local nursery, both were sold to me as “Cypress”, but everyone calls cypress to scale conifers and pines to needle conifers, so that didn´t help at all. I think the first one...

Hi everyone, Does anyone have experience collecting Prunus serotina ssp. capuli? One of those guys was growing in my backyard for 3 years. I never planted it, it just appeared one day. It reached about 4 or 5 feet, then I pruned it back and it re-bud, and grow again about 3 feet. It was growing...

Update Today I finally took pics of my trees with a real camera, not the one in my cell phone, so I decided to post an update of my Monterey Pine. I’m planning to re-pot it into a rectangular pot, do you think that would be a good combination? Regards, Napo

Needle blight I have had some minor infections of Dothistroma pini, or needle blight, and I used some copper based fungicides to control it. Ocassionally I found a couple of brown needles that seemed to be infected but I just take them off and throw them away in a garbage bag. I think have seen...

Nice discussion guys, I have seen many of these monterey pines dying in parks and streets, and they do not seem that old, but as I read, this pine do not like air pollution, with is a major issue in populated city, so is Quito, the place where I live. I assume that if I give them the...

Radiata Thank you guys for the comments, I live in Ecuador, and the radiata pine is by far the most common pine around here, they are very easy to find in nurseries, parks, streets, houses, national parks, etc., I have also found stores that sell seeds. It is also very cheap, I don´t...

Hi, I´ve decided to post some pictures of my Radiata pine, I bought it several years ago (I think maybe 9) when I was a teenager, I didn´t know much about bonsai at that time, neither about Pines (nor today ha ha ha), so I planted in a small pot, chopped it and wired a little. Years later, as...

Update Hi everybody, Here is an update, my Mashua-accent-plant was attacked by my girlfriend’s pet, a rabbit. She chewed several leaves and buds. Here is a picture of the plant, as you may see it is not as lush as it should be. Also there is a picture of the attacker; however, don’t let her...

Hi everyone, I’ve been working in a new accent plant, just for experimenting. It is a native plant from Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. It grows up to 2 meters, but it mainly remains as a small bush. It is called mashua, (Tropaeolum tuberosum) and it produces some small tubers like a long potato...