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Just Duane

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About 2 months ago, my future father in law called & said he has some bonsai trees for me ( the real story is, my gf called & said "we have to go to dinner at the shop" I said "WHAT!!" she said "dad has some bonsai for you" & I said "what time dear?"). I blazed over to his shop & was directed to look inside a van parked on the street. I opened the sliding door of the van & the first thing that came to my mind was "looks like a damn jungle in here!" The next thing in my mind was "how the hell am I going to carry these things up 2 flights of stairs to my bonsai area? Needless to say, he answered both questions before I even asked he said "i'll send the boys over to the house tomorrow morning" Yesss! Anyhoots, he told me his friends father had passed & his friend wanted nothing to do with these trees & that if he wanted them he needed to come right now or he'll kick them into the ravine!
Ok, long story short. There were 14 trees total, 2 were rotting & dead. I'll show you guys some of the trunks that I feel have potential.

This is how most of them looked. They were packed into the pot with regular soil. This one swallowed up its rock lol

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Hows this for drainage hole? The inward lip of the pot made getting these trees out a LOT harder!

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Finally out of the pot

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This metal chicken wire was found swallowed half way up the rootball

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Also halfway up the rootball was this tera cotta pot ( maybe he was going for the flat rootball?)

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These trees waited nearly 17 years to be repotted. I think they are happier now. All foilage are tall & lanky (probably poor lighting & lack of care for years?)

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Foilage

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Heres another after repotting

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And foilage

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Another one. I like this angle better.

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Foilage

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This one waits for a pot, the pot arrived crack but a replacement is on the way

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This one will never be displayed but its an interesting conversation piece lol

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Thats all for now, they all will receive TLC & will all be cut back next year. OBTW, my back hurts :)
 

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Dang, those are some wicked, gnarley old trees!! Good luck with them..

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I swear I never have seen anyone fall into such good fortune Duane ......... Great Score!
 

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A nice bottle of single malt scotch is in order for your future father-in-law!
 

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thats some really awsome figs you got there! keep us posted on this guys

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Very very cool! I am happy for you... and the trees will be very happy to be in such good hands. :D

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Holey Moley what a score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know ficus don't die for months! so any you have that you thought was dead just pour some water on and give them a bit of time to start growing again....
 

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I swear I never have seen anyone fall into such good fortune Duane ......... Great Score!



Thanks Tom, for some reason or another, I feel these trees were meant to be here? Strange as it sounds.....
I remember three months ago at the end of our club meeting, someone said we might go to look at some ficus trees & that the owner had passed away.
We never went, not sure why? I told my sensei about the trees that I got & he asked me where did they come from? I didnt know at the time but at the next meeting I
told him who my father in law got the trees from & yup, these were the trees we were supposed to go see. Heres the real kicker though, these trees were about 3 streets
away from where our club meets!....Go figure huh?
 
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Just Duane

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A lttile sweat and TLC and you'll have an awesome addition to your collection. We should all be so lucky!!



I hear you on the sweat Barry! You should've seen me carrying these to their stands lol The boys just dropped them off, they weren't here to help me repot & move them to their stands haha. I dropped one in complete fatigue:)
 

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A nice bottle of single malt scotch is in order for your future father-in-law!



Ahhh, hes definitely a keeper! He loves a cold coors light when he visits & I always make sure we have the fattest ribeyes to Q up:)
The best part about these is, my g/f cannot complain that I brought more trees home! It was the first time I got absolutely no flack about new trees! Yeehaw!
 
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Just Duane

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Very very cool! I am happy for you... and the trees will be very happy to be in such good hands. :D

V



Thanks Victrinia, I will do my best for these. Obtw, I read about them early blooming azaleas, please let me know if you find the answer, mines have a mind of their own & started to bloom a few weeks ago! I don't really mind the early bloom, I just with it would bloom all at once lol
 

Just Duane

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Holey Moley what a score!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You know ficus don't die for months! so any you have that you thought was dead just pour some water on and give them a bit of time to start growing again....



Thanks Irene, I hear you but I tossed them in the garbage. One was a huge schefflera, its trunk was mushy when I grabbed it & at the time I just wanted to clean up our sidewalk a little.
 
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