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I bought a gold lace Juniperus chinensis today. There are 2 main stems which I am not sure if they are separate or growing from the same roots. My thought is that each stem (if I keep both) could be a semi cascading style parallel to each other but leaning opposite ways. I can’t tell that the...

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...

Just got this gorgeous japanese white pine yesterday, it cost me a pretty penny so im really stuck on what to do with it at the moment. Its in a #3 nursery container with the typical dense organic soil mixture. My initial thought was to leave it in there until next spring and just do some...

I picked up a nice trunked Privet at a local nursery here in Texas. It’s regularly 80s-90 degrees right now. Its pushing some newer growth currently. It is root bound and definitely not growing as strong as it should. Is it too late to repot this privet? Are they tough enough to handle some...

Hi - this is the last one and sorry for multiple posts. This is an interesting one - clearly was trained in a bonsai pot before but put in a nursary can later. The core is like a concrete- it was probably some types of akadama and then wrapped with coco coir. It was really heavy… I took out...

Hi! Thanks very much for your feedback. I have made some improvement to my HBR. Here is the dwarf scots pine no 4. Still have not figured out the root base- will wait till next spring. Any suggestion on future plans and feedback would be great. Thanks!

Hi - here is number 3- a bit challenging to find the root base this one … I also figured out how to stabilise the growth bag - dig a hole with soil mix then fill rather than the other way around- a lot easier this way. Shame - there is few air pockets I struggled to fill with this - it is in...

Hi - here is the no.2 - hope I have taken your feedback in mind.

Hi friends. My new bonsai survived the winter and is looking very healthy as we start spring weather here. Based on suggestions from the previous owner and some research I've done, I want to repot this beautiful tree into something a bit bigger (preferably the same shape and diameter, but just...

Hi everyone, I'm sure I'm probably just overthinking this, but in years past I've had unfortunate luck keeping seedlings and younger plants alive. Today, i received these Arakawa seedlings by mail. They were advertised in small pots, but arrived bagged in soil per the pictures. Given that the...

Hi all ! I'm based in the uk and had a Japanese maple shipped to me today , the sender didn't really seal / package the tree very well at all and then used a pretty useless courrier service . Basically so much soil was out the pot and the tree had completely shifted in the pot , wasn't wired...

My Chinese Privet wasn’t vigourous at all this spring, so I decided to emergency repot to get an eye on the roots (it’s normally very vigorous this time of year) It was ridiculously root bound, so I did some pretty serious root pruning and a repot. After a few waters, I’m worried the pot might...

Hi all, Ive attached some images of my trident maple. It was left outside on a porch, so no direct snow during the winter, but definitely plenty of freezing temperatures. While all my Japanese maples were waking up, the Trident was delayed, and I grew concerned. Just this week, maybe within a...

Repotted this parsoni juniper in March after the last cold week into a pond basket and into inorganic soil from its nursery pot. Last summer I did some basic styling but havent touched the foliage since. Foliage is stiff, not growing any new shoots, not much browning at tips, but seems...

I am not sure what species of juniper chinensis this is... If anyone knows please tell me. Here are before and after photos of the repot and wiring I did today on this tree, I made few mistakes on the wiring but I am not great at wiring yet and especially with copper. I may consider turning this...

I received a shipment of trees from Bonsaify a few days ago and am hungry to work them. They’re grown in San Fran, and I live in Calgary.. quite a difference in where the trees are growth wise to where my trees are currently. My in ground trees are just starting to have buds swell or leafing out...

Hello, Today went for a top down half bare root on a clearance spruce. It was robust with lots of roots top to bottom in the nursery can. As so many things are, here in the PNW, the core was solid Willammette mud/clay. Since I didnt have any specific plan for the tree, I thought it would be a...

Hello all, I am at the tail end of my first bonsai winter! I just picked up this Katsura maple from a nursery the other day and I'm a little stumped on what to do first with it. These were the options I have cooked up in my head. Any thoughts on these as well as new suggestions? 1) The soil...

Hi, I just got a small scots pine seedling and the soil it was in was very mucky and wet, so I bare-rooted it (I know it isn't supposed to be good but I didn't wash the roots so there still is some mycorrhiza on them) and planted it in good free-draining soil without cutting any roots except a...

I have a few trees that will be getting repotted at a new, often quite different angle at the next opportunity. Until repot, does it make sense to keep the pot at the new inclination? I have seen that some professionals seem to do this, but it's not necessarily consistent. I've also seen some...

Hi guys, I have a tiny twin trunk pfitz juniper and I was wondering if I can repot it in autumn, it is currently in it's garden center soil and so I might need to cut off quite a good amount of roots

I saw @leatherback mention in a video (don't recall which one, but I think it was about japanese maple) that he had buried the nebari. I believe the reason was to encourage growth. Is this a common technique? What are it's primary goals, just so I don't mis-state them? Are there specific species...

Consolidating all of my bucida spinosa/terminalia molinetti tree progressions and work into a single thread to keep things less spammy. I appreciate and welcome any constructive criticism, questions, suggestions. The poll is for the first tree. This is my 2nd biggest one, has kind of a long...

Hi folks, I repotted my first shimpaku the other day! I'd had it for a year in the original (small) nursery pot, and I knew that it was time for a repot. The roots had wrapped around the container. My question is about the amount of sunlight that is appropriate for shimpaku. I did minimal root...

Hi all, I was traveling and just got home to my trident, ready for spring! I did intend to repot this one this year. I’m growing it out in an Anderson flat and it’s been three years or so, so I expect it to need some heavy root work. Am I too late?