Did you kill your first tree? How?

[Lonefrog]

Kill it, Lonefrog! Your hate has made you powerful! Now you'll join the dark side!

I can't stop laughing!!! ???

 

[Shinjuku]

Kill it, Lonefrog! Your hate has made you powerful! Now you'll join the dark side!

Just imagine your bonsai saying to you, “If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

 

[Lonefrog]

@Shinjuku
Since I'm still fairly new at this I imagine my bonsai saying "I find your lack of faith disturbing."

 

[stevek]

Ooooohhhh my first tree lasted about a week, or two. I took a garden juniper in a 3 gallon pot, and sawed off 90% of the roots out of season. I joined Deep Cut Bonsai Society, and never looked back!

it must have been the other members that helped you, cause ya couldn't learn anything listening to me. steve.

 

[BunjaeKorea]

I am the only person I know who still has their original tree.... not much to look at Yamadori Chinese Juniper..... its survival through my idiotic mistakes is a testiment to its own insane genetics rather than any skill on my part.

 

[Cajunrider]

Over the years I've killed more trees than I can count and have left many great trees in the houses I've left. Since I just got started into bonsai I've yet to kill one unless you count the frost bitten rainbow eucalyptus that I dug up and potted in my attempt to save it. OTOH, I've yet to have a true bonsai tree so I'm a Oh for Oh. My pre-bonsai trees all live now but who knows what they will do when I put any of them in true bonsai pot.

 

[Johnathan]

Nope and don't plan on it! It's the only tree with a name. It's the 1st tree I posted about here



And two months ago:





And when I repotted about a month ago!



It only cost me $25 as a "pre-bonsai", but it's my most expensive tree. My daughter loves it lol must not die ever!!!!

 

[mattspinniken]

I don't remember how I killed my first tree but I remember how I killed my first collected tree. It was way too loose in the pot. Now I tie the collected trees down like a mad man.

 

[Lazylightningny]

Kill it!

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this made me lol

 

[n8]

Not my first project, but the first one I really cared about. I picked up a small, collected Utah juniper at our local club's spring show. Really neat, maybe 35-year-old tree. It doesn't get too cold where I live, but first I thought it froze on too many consecutive nights. Then I convinced myself that the soil was too compacted -- not a big deal because it would have needed minimal water in the winter, anyway. Then I tried repotting it in late-January. Then it was dead for sure. I still have it so I can shame myself daily.