bonsai

Hello all, On Nov 4th I purchased a Chinese Elm which will be my first ever bonsai. This was right after potting it. My setup is indoors with 2 SANSI lightbulbs providing about 1800-2400 FC of light to the leaves. I believe this is on the low end, but I think the tree is taking to it and is...

I'm going on vacation for 12 days. I've moved all of my bonsai into a shaded corner and have two different sprinklers on a timer watering them every day for redundancy.. With the amount of water I'm putting on them they'll probably be very wet the entire time I'm away, which is intentional...

Hello all, I am by no means a bonsai enthusiast. I found these trimmers at a yard sale and after looking up the maker Masakuni. I felt I should ask about them. My plan was to just clean and sharpen them up and use them as general scissors. I have no idea as to the age of them. I’m worried they...

Today I bought a nice small Ficus Ginseng with some aerial roots, and decided to transplant it right away. I didn't have Bonsai mix, so I sifted Black Gold Cactus and succulent mix to remove the smaller particles, and I added 1/3 of sifted Akadama I had. This substrate seems very to drain water...

The city of Columbus, Ohio, has started fighting back against the rapid takeover of Amur Honeysuckle. A vacant lot near my home was bulldozed two or three years ago so I decided to go looking for survivors the other day and found this little guy. Not much bigger in diameter than a quarter, and...

Hey all! I’ve posted about this tree before, with a ton of help received (thank you!). I did a repot on this about a month ago, and so far it’s been sprouting new growth and looking good, however I have noticed a bit of yellowing here and there and some dried out/pale internal foliage that’s...

Hello all. I recently acquired this beautiful little twin trunk Shimpaku Juniper. I did a repot on it about 6 days ago (later in the season than I’d like but it was bricked up pretty good). I was gentle as could be and I kept the roots mostly intact with about 20% total removal of the feeder...

Hi everyone! I’m a lurker and very new to Bonsai. Been practicing since last August. I’ve learned a lot fairly quickly recently…having lost almost every tree I got last year due to being afraid to fertilize among poor watering habits (overwatering). Yesterday I received this japanese black...

I'm new to bonsai, I have around twenty trees but have only started bonsai this year so my experience is minimal. I recently bought what is claimed to be a shimpaku juniper online and encountered something I've never seen before, and from what I've researched, is due to an unhealthy root system...

I finally got around to do the initial work on this Kojo-no-mai cherry blossom I bought during the fall sale. The roots where a complete mess, and I had to spend 1.5 hours to make any sense of it. They were tangled like crazy, and many of them unfortunatly seemed pretty unhelathy due to the...

I'm looking for a large RMJ or Sierra Juniper. Hit me up. Dai size or bigger is preferable. Many thanks! * I'm located in SoCal.

Just finally started learning about Bonsai this week ordered myself a 8 inch ficus from Brussels through Amazon, excited to style it when it comes, as it will be my first time. Also dug up what I found out later was referred to as yamadori, it was a random unknown shrub species out of the yard...

Hello I don't know much about bonsai trees so figured I'd ask. I have grown this tree from a seed 2 years and 3 months ago. It's a pride of Barbados. Is it considered a bonsai since it's stayed this small or ?

Hi! Glad I've found this website. I got a maple bonsai from my dad back in April. Back then, the tree had nice new leaves, looked full of life. My dad told me to take care of watering it well, but there was a heatwave last spring and I missed watering it enough:-( it just lost the leaves but...

I am new to bonsai stuff, i had grown one inside and i have seen ppl saying when u directly keep them outside they may die But think bonsai is dying help. Please tell me what i did wrong

Hello fellow Bonsai Nutz A few weeks ago I gently removed these little pines from my friends deck. There were a bunch that had been growing, naturally, up out of the small spaces between the deck boards, so I decided to try and save a few. This little container was all I could find at the time...

Hi, My bonsai that was previously kept indoors and wilted away, has been nurtured now back to good health by spending the summer outdoors, as per the advice of you good people. However, now that winter is on the horizon, it is going to start getting cold in the UK and therefore, should I now...

I have a 70 year old shimpaku juniper that I have taken care of over the past 3 years. I recently moved from Georgia to Sacramento, CA and the tree suffered a serious hit from the move likely from my packaging and heat. I had watered the plant thoroughly and wrapped the soil/pot in plastic and...

If long running threads are necessary, as they are with a hobby such as this, I think I'm going to start one documenting the lessons I've leaned each season. Please feel free, as beginners, to add any hard lessons you've learned this year and each in the future.

Hello all, I have had this bonsai for approximately 2 years, however it has never really grown to be thick and has always been quite sparse. After doing a bit of youtubeing, i was thinking of repotting it in spaghnum moss. However, I wanted to ask on a forum to get further advice before doing...

I have a 71 year old Juniper (shimpaku) that was handed down to me. It is time for a repot, but I have no idea what type of soil mix to use. I'd like to mix my own but need help from everyone on the exact ingredients and amounts to use unless you can recommend a reputable brand of premixed soil...

I purchased two beautiful sharps pygmy japanese maples in nursery pots this spring. One of them I potted up in an oversized bonsai pot with akadama and pumice and pruned ~50% of the roots. That one is doing wonderfully. The other one I left in the nursery pot and did some minor pruning to the...

Hey, I just ordered a Colorado spruce tree from a nursery. Its going to arrive next week (Beginning of May). I was wondering if its okay to hard prune and style it initially when I get it and then leave it be for a year or so before doing any more work? I have read that the best time to do this...

Hi! Pretty new to bonsai and plants overall! Got this beauty as a gift, and have been doing my best to take care of it, however, because of how I work I am away from home at times. The plant was taken care of but some how grew mold. This was about three months ago and worked to get it off. Now...

I am a beginning my 2nd yr in bonsai. I purchased these trident maples from a widow of a club member who has passed. I got these trees late last spring and I am looking for help on how best to get these trees back on a path towards becoming bonsai. Trident #1 has 3 trunks and a big calloused...