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    Advice on pruning my ficus

    It will take a lot of energy to grow a new shoot like that, and to close what will be a good sized wound after you chop. My 2 cents is that it would be better to do that growing/healing with a full tank of gas, after having had the chance to grow it out for a while.
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    Brazilian Rain Tree Advice

    My observations have not been very scientific - I combined a couple of experiences that could have been coincidental with anecdotes that I read online, including here. One thought, though, if you are using a weak dilution of the MG (something like 1/2 or 1/4 of recommended for containers), that...
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    Advice on pruning my ficus

    Hello, Figgie! First off, congratulations on saving the tree! Black scale can be mean AF and I hate them with a passion. No, do not prune this tree. That thing should get to grow into a big bushy shrub before you touch it with pruners. Trim it now and it will probably struggle along for...
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    Brazilian Rain Tree Advice

    Not sure how other people are fertilizing BRT, but I skip my BRT any time I am fertilizing my bonsai with chemical fertilizer. Once, after I hit it with chemical fert, it had a hissy fit and dropped all its leaves. But I had to do it again before I caught on (slow learner). Ever since then, the...
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    Collected Hawthorn History

    Intriguing! Are the screens shorter than the frame, so you can "shake" them?
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    Large chunky european hornbeam stump styling

    You could be right and it might be too late, but I have a Korean hornbeam with that same problem that I waited to address, and still had some luck with flat-cutting under the root and covering with soil.
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    New from Salt Lake

    C&T, years ago, used to have a relationship with the club due to a couple of past club presidents working there. Those individuals did a lot of work to establish the bonsai department, but after they left the quality went down and the prices went up. The relationship with the club also stalled...
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    New from Salt Lake

    Hello! I suggest looking for nurseries near you and checking them out. You would do yourself a favor by reading up first on how to select good nursery stock. Early on, I wasted a lot of time and money on truly terrible material. Some ideas for nurseries to look at would be Glover Nursery and...
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    Hornbeam opinion

    I am not going to defend or condemn the response, but offer my thought on the source of the disagreement. I believe that, when @johnl445 mentioned the BIN price, @Gabler understood the thrust of the question to be whether it would be a good buy. But the intent behind stating the price, I think...
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    Ficus Philippinensis March 2019-

    This is turning out very nice. I hope it responds by sprouting by that branch that died.
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    Indoor Setup for Tropicals?

    Oh, for sure. My statement was a little vague! I just meant I would rotate them so that I would get to see them all. Even in my imaginary world where I get to put something like that in the living room, my wife still would not allow enough cabinets to hold all my ficus! 😄
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    Indoor Setup for Tropicals?

    You might have fewer watts going into your tent than I do (~400W-500W per 2x4x6 tent). Without my thermostat-controlled exhaust fans my trees would literally be toast. Not everybody will need it - like you said, people need to find what works for them. The one thing I think is essential in an...
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    Indoor Setup for Tropicals?

    Definitely not necessary. I grew ficus bonsai in my house, unenclosed, for several years and it was fine. Like you said, they just did not thrive. Here are my reasons for growing in a tent: Light - the high-intensity LEDs that I grow my tropicals under are very bright and harsh on the eyes...
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    Indoor Setup for Tropicals?

    But think about it...if you lay it on its side then you could build a platform, add another tent above it, and then you have 96sqft! Though watering the trees in the back might be tricky.
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    Luvinthemountains sumo shohin pink pixie bougainvillea

    Grown out, cut back for a couple of seasons now. Almost killed it last year with a bad batch of osmocote. I like the way this is shaping up.
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    Tree Thread: Hawiian Umbrella Tree

    Cool idea. Maybe when I repot mine (thread), I can just pull it out of the pot and set it on some new substrate. I like it!
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    MY GARDEN, SHARE YOURS

    Your trees and garden are fantastic! I love the structure.
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    Sun tolerance of tropical species in high desert

    Hey there! So we are getting similar results within a few miles of each other. Our summer was pretty hot!
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    Sun tolerance of tropical species in high desert

    That is interesting. It really could be my soil mix. (Or water quality - mine has pretty high PH, around 7.6.) For soil, I have been using a lot of pumice and scoria, with some bark mixed in. Going forward, I have been thinking I will significantly increase the ratio of bark to inorganics in my...
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    Sun tolerance of tropical species in high desert

    Well, I settled on putting the tropicals in full sun this year. My observation, they did not do so great. Watering and fertilization was mostly the same as last year, when I had them under the polycarb roof and they grew pretty well. Leaf size and internode length were better in full sun, but...
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    Tigerbark ficus from raw material to?

    I have continued working at this over the summer, hoping that an idea will coalesce for me. I need to choose a front. My problem is that the new movement I introduced with the chop is at odds with the best view of the trunk. Here are some possibilities. #1 I feel like this view shows off the...
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    Real Stone (pot GIVEAWAY)

    I am a bit tardy in writing this post, but my Boulder Bear prototype stone pot came in the mail last week and it is awesome. I can't wait to get a tree in it. I have a ponderosa pine that would probably enjoy having the room to stretch its legs, but that would have to wait until spring. A...
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    luvinthemountains ficus benjamina #1 (twin-trunk)

    Thank you. I saw an example of that epoxy method on your exotica thread, and I have heard of it from a few others over the years. I have been looking for a good way to close large wounds and, if this cut paste does not continue to deliver results then I will probably try filling with epoxy. That...
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    luvinthemountains ficus benjamina #1 (twin-trunk)

    This tree is about to go into the tent. I decided to cut the secondary trunk much lower, and we will need another few years in the big pot to close the wound. Incidentally, I am finding this green cut paste works wonders for closing woulds on ficus. In the meantime, I will be working to grow out...
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    Maiden's Shohin Ficus Tiger Bark

    I am loving what this little tree is doing in your climate! Great growth for sure. At this rate, it will not look much like its doppelganger in my garden soon. Especially since mine suffered a near-death drought stress while I was on vacation! Luckily, it is coming back and, depending on how...
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