Home Depot JBP

[Shrimpaku]

I was checking out from my Home Depot yesterday and I saw a cart with two Japanese Black Pines in it. I think they were being returned because the cart had a lot of misc junk in it. I went to the nursery to check out if there were any more pines, but couldn't find any. Of course, when I returned to the front the cart and the pines were gone.

Anyone see Japanese Black Pines for sale at their Home Depot?

 

[bonsai barry]

I bought one last year and stuck it in the ground. It's trunk is slightly thicker than a pencil. I'm trying to reconcile its slow growth with the photos I've seen in the Pine Bonsai book that shows two year old bonsai with two inch trunks. Yeah, I super fertilize mine, too, but certainly with less success.

 

[Shrimpaku]

These ones were bigger I would have to say they had a good 1" trunk or more. I will have to dig out my old Bonsai Today magazines; there was a great article about a guy who was growing high-quality Black Pines from seed to selling size in five years. He grew them in nested colanders out of the soil Each year he would remove the outer colander and trim any roots that stuck out. Let me see if I can find the article.

 

[bonsai barry]

These ones were bigger I would have to say they had a good 1" trunk or more. I will have to dig out my old Bonsai Today magazines; there was a great article about a guy who was growing high-quality Black Pines from seed to selling size in five years. He grew them in nested colanders out of the soil Each year he would remove the outer colander and trim any roots that stuck out. Let me see if I can find the article.

That article is also found in the Pine Book published by Stone Lantern (which could make a nice Christmas present). Although I don't doubt the author's honesty, I really can't comprehend a tree that could grow this fast. I've got seedlings the same age that are growing in the ground in nice condititions and they're aren't a third as thick.