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Cool idea! Did you use silicone or anything else to seal the terrarium around the bottom? If not, I would stick a cork mat or something similar under it, to avoid damaging your desktop. Heck, I would protect the desk even if I did seal the terrarium.

Maybe shorten it?

Great point. Try this next time - google "bonsai soil site:bonsainut.com" and see if you get even better results. </OT>

Thank you so much for your careful presentation of the process. Very informative!

The owner of that tree has previously posted on FB that they had the rough bark appear spontaneously on one out of a batch of f. microcarpa they grew from seed. If you can't get a cutting from that exact tree then your only hope seems to be planting a bunch of your own seeds and hoping for a...

Incredible! Now we need to see a photo of how it looks now.

Nice save! I see a spooky face in the carving.

It is one of those questions that is easy to worry about, much less easy to answer. Someday I might spend a weekend weighing one of my least favorite bonsai hourly after a single watering. My thinking is that the change in weight (from transpiration/evaporation) is likely to start leveling off...

You are probably right about that. My ADHD sometimes makes it hard to envision either the future or the past, so I think I can blame my less sunny view on it.

Funny enough, I think I like this one even better than its larger sibling. Looking awesome!

I am trying to make up my mind on whether clip and grow works for this species. It just seems to take so long to see progress! Most of the time, it just feels like one step forward, two steps back. Gutsy move removing that thick sub-branch, by the way! I think you will be happy with the choice...

Wow! Great choice of pot, Danny. It takes the tree to the next level.

I may be wrong, but having owned both I feel almost certain @Devilrocker's plant is some variety of c. ovata. The leaf shape and growth habit, among other things, are different. There are cultivars of c. ovata that have quite compact growth. Everything else you've said strikes me as right. I...

My big cork bark elm killed off a bottom branch this year. The branch was a bit weak anyway, so it wasn't entirely unexpected, but it was disappointing. Anyway, I have heard that these trees in particular will pull resources from lower branches if you let the top get too strong. That is...

What a great and obscure phrase. I never knew.

This is where I would go. Remove everything else, cut just above the first node, and let the upper bud extend. If you do it after the tree has leafed out and hardened off (June-ish?) then the growth from that bud will be restrained. Later in the year, you wire some movement into that and then...

The root spread on the curvy one is to die for!

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.

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...

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...

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...

Intriguing! Are the screens shorter than the frame, so you can "shake" them?

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.

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...

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...