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Thanks Judy :D Stay tuned, there's lots more to come :cool:

Thanks for putting in the link Dan :cool: Dick messaged me and will chat with him tomorrow. Please visit my blog via the link above to see the entire post about my vine maples if you already haven't. While some of the flaws Cory noted are true for some vine maples, I have noticed there is a lot...

Looking good Wood! :cool:

How about some photos?

I always try to unwind gauges (of copper) 14 and smaller. It's much faster than cutting.

I believe the blades are inter-changeable. The 'AX' blades I got for collecting with are 5" long. The saw came with a 3" multi-purpose blade (more hackswaw-like) and didn't look adequate for collecting with. The help there was really good and had actually worked with the saw I bought. I know...

I ran into this problem this spring while out collecting a very large lodgepole pine. I kept thinking "there has to be a tool..." Sometimes when you've dug down so far a pull saw just won't cut it (not enough room down there to get in a cutting stroke) and that tap root is 3+ inches thick or...

Can you post some pictures for us?

Sounds like you are on the right track. Our club takes a welcome break July and August. We have our annual picnic this Saturday--potluck style, club supplies the burgers and dogs. One of the local nurseries organizes activities like a scavenger hunt with bonsai-related prizes. There is also a...

I've only been in Oregon since 2006--3 yrs. in Hood River, where it got to single digits but never below zero, although I'm sure there may be temps that low in the records. Here in Portland I've seen it as cold a 15* along with east winds out of the Columbia River Gorge for over a week on and...

I forgot about this thread until someone brought it up again recently. The species of pinyon I was referring to is Pinus cembroides--Mexican Pinyon, a three needle pine that occurs at 2,500' to 7,500' in southeast Arizona. While I think the rain we get here didn't help the situation, I was...

Ryan--I potted this little guy late February when the buds were obviously swollen but hadn't broken yet. It was a first potting from a plastic collander to the pot you see. I fertilized it liberally the three years it was in the collander so I was able to cut back the thicker roots it still had...

Here's one I collected from the wild 3 yrs ago and potted in a bonsai pot this spring. It's the same species you've got and I think Monrovia just tacked on the fancy name to make it their own. They are native to this area in Oregon. Hummingbirds love them. The trunk is 2 1/2" at soil level and...

Good to see you're O.K. Gary :)

:confused: What baffles me is why pay for the extra electricity to grow them indoors during their normal growing season when the sunshine outside costs you nothing. Then you have another place to put them during dormancy, which is outdoors. Why don't you put them outdoors @ the place you put...

I know it's not that important that our grow boxes last that long, but if you use cedar fence planks (easy to find 1 x 4 & 1 x 6) your boxes won't be rotting so quickly. I find I can use the cedar boxes for more than one tree--that is, they hold up long enough to use a second or even third time ;)

What do the buds look like? Are they swelling at all? I've got one here in Portland with new needles extending from the buds. I'm sure we're a lot further along than you are but you must have been getting some warmer temps that would stimulate new growth if the tree is healthy.

I will swear by pumice too. I place all my collected trees in it to acclimate them and man does it encourage root growth! Straight pumice, no other particles. But if you use it that way, it's necessary to fertilize well as there will be no organic available for the tree to utilize. Pumice is a...

What they said but for one exception--backing off on the watering in the spring. This doesn't have to mean no watering at all, just holding back a bit. I belong to one of Michael Hagedorn's study groups and he advocates just that. "Make them hunt" in early spring, referring to the newly growing...

Thanks for that, Wood :D Always good to know what we're working with;)

Again, very hard to see, but Bill's right. The trees are planted on lace rock and there is a small "gorge" between the two rocks that were used to make the planting. I'll try to take a better photo of it outdoors in daylight :p

Here's one I acquired @ auction from Jack Wilson when he still lived here in Portland. Sorry for the quality of the photo--the flash flattens things out but the best I could do right now. I've had this since Dec. 2008 and it's a lot of work just keeping the growth thinned out. Jack worked on it...

Not bad for a buck;)

I wouldn't worry much about the bark of a juniper; pine is another story. The birds around here pick away at the bark of my pines looking for insects :eek:

I see one tiny sprig of foliage left and it's so tiny in the photo it's difficult to tell what you've got. The problem with conifers is that they have to have some foliage to survive collection--and yours has so little that unless you happen to be Kimura, it probably isn't going to make it:(...