Bonsai choice

[brennobonsai]

I'm going to buy one of those trees.

I have never had experience with any of them so I am taking small ones like that.

Which ones do you recommend that I take?

 

[Tieball]

Pink flowering.
Hmmmm....no Brazilian rain tree?

 

[Cadillactaste]

The juniper have to straight of trunk for what most desire.

 

[Cadillactaste]

Flowering Serissa can be finicky for a new person.

Juniper need outside.

 

[brennobonsai]

Pink flowering.
Hmmmm....no Brazilian rain tree?

Unfortunately not

 

[brennobonsai]

Flowering Serissa can be finicky for a new person.

Juniper need outside.

putting the plant on the outside is no problem for me.

Do I get Shimpaku then?

 

[Cadillactaste]

putting the plant on the outside is no problem for me.

Do I get Shimpaku then?

Are you happy with the trunk line? I've never really seen one with a straight trunk before. What is your future direction with it?

 

[Cadillactaste]

Duplicate post somehow. Edit to remove confusion.

 

[brennobonsai]

Are you happy with the trunk line? I've never really seen one with a straight trunk before. What is your future direction with it?

My idea was perhaps to keep a branch growing so that it would grow taller and then wire. Do you think it's possible?

 

[Cadillactaste]

Sure you can grow it taller.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I agree with everything said/discussed...

But what’s that first one.. cherry?

 

[brennobonsai]

I agree with everything said/discussed...

But what’s that first one.. cherry?

Serissa phoetida I think.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Oh ok!.. i am only familiar with the flowering, variegated Serissas.

 

[Shibui]

I have never had experience with any of them so I am taking small ones like that.

Smaller bonsai are cheaper to purchase but much harder to keep alive. Those little pots will dry out before lunchtime outside in summer.
Mid sized trees are much easier for a beginner to manage.

Of the species above juniper are the hardiest. Serissa should be OK in warmer climate.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

I heartedly recommend getting ALL of them. Partly in jest, partly serious.

One of the biggest problems with beginning bonsai is dealing with impatience while waiting for trees to grow. If you have a group of trees, you will have more frequent things to do. Otherwise you end up in a cycle of watering, then wait, water, then wait.

I recommend 60 or more, that way every week something will need something done.

You are in Brazil. The Serissa should be much easier for you to grow in your climate than us in the USA.

There are a couple members from Brazil, they might be able to give you help, I'll tag @Clicio

 

[Njyamadori]

The juniper but when you get into bonsai these feel like scams kinda since they really aren’t bonsai just little tree/material. But I would get a juniper for the looks