My Tiniest tree, What are you trying that's new??

[TyroTinker]

Thank you both for responding. 0soyoung I can’t believe those horse chestnuts! The really do reduce a lot. I like the looks of those Norways too.
As for the cell phone thing, with my phone (iPhone) if you tap on the screen before you take the picture it will refocus where you tap if it can. Sometimes with closeups I have to move back a little to get anything to focus, but then I can zoom and crop after

 

[MACH5]

I sure do. I will post an update soon

The base has thickened considerably. Was just cut back to force it to back bud closer to the trunk. Still needs lots more development but will get there. They are slow and not so easy to ramify. Also posting one from last summer.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

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My tiniest JRP. Now three years old from seed.
Pot size has restricted the needle size to around 10% of the previous year. The 2018 needles are longer than the entire tree.

It's dead! I wasn't able to keep this one watered enough, to make things worse.. The blackbird got it a few times, yanked it straight out of the pot. Same goes with all of my miniatures except for the cherry.

It's getting a nice cutback next spring.

 

[0soyoung]

I wasn't able to keep this one watered enough, to make things worse.. The blackbird got it a few times, yanked it straight out of the pot.

Nesting the little pot in a bigger pot filled with substrate or similar will ameliorate watering issues. I fill humidity trays with sand or substrate fines and sit my little pots atop it - water the works.

I take a length of wire, gently wrap it around the stem of the seedling. Poke the end of the wire through the drain hole, then around the outside to the top of the pot, with the end of the wire bent over the lip. Seedling doesn't come out of the pot.

 

[Wires_Guy_wires]

Nesting the little pot in a bigger pot filled with substrate or similar will ameliorate watering issues. I fill humidity trays with sand or substrate fines and sit my little pots atop it - water the works.

I take a length of wire, gently wrap it around the stem of the seedling. Poke the end of the wire through the drain hole, then around the outside to the top of the pot, with the end of the wire bent over the lip. Seedling doesn't come out of the pot.

Unfortunately, we can't glue our substrates to the pot. It's nice that the plant stays in place, but when a pot is shaken upside down and bakes in the sun all day, there's not much I can do. They've been flicked from the bench, the surrounding substrate has been removed by those pesky birds over 20 times, and the summer heat this year was no joke. I have used netting in the past, but once a bird gets stuck in there, the entire bench gets ravaged.
If those black bird weren't culled by a viral disease the past few years, I would've shot them. But their population was diminished to roughly 2% of the original population within a single year and the rebound is slow due to the dry and hot summers.
Oh well, I have enough seedlings of somewhat the same age. I'll manage.

 

[cockroach]

A cutting from the exposed root hibiscus. I will try keep it as small as possible



Will try tighten foliage on this little cascade ficus as well.


This is a little elm literati I am working on.


This was an premna microphylla twig I cut and threw away that landed in a potted plant and stretched for the sun. Will continue to play with it and contort it to see what happens. Not liking the "S" bends but I could not bend it more as the trunk was already cracking.


My littlest ficus I just keep adding more and more bends to. Will see where it ends up.


My premna mame cascade got a hard prune. Will wait and see how it recovers.


A small premna root over rock is starting to take shape.


Hibiscus exposed root that the above cutting came from.

 

[Louisinass]

The laceleaf didn't make it and I haven't found another.
The fothergilla didn't either, but I have another that is already bare, coming up on its second winter View attachment 269821 (I have trouble understanding how cell cameras can pick out a bit of distant background in one corner of the frame and focus in that instead of what's right there in the middle of the field of view ).
I still have two horsechestnuts, the one I posted was moved to a small dish. View attachment 269809 The other is in a pink pot that is smaller than the b&w stripe. View attachment 269810 I get a huge kick out of them because of how radical the miniaturization can be. Here's a pic of the two with a leaf from their mom and a conker like the one from which they came (thank you squirrels!). View attachment 269811

I have tons of Norway maples still and cannot recall loosing a one, but I cannot even find this little blue pot, so I guess it is lost . In its stead, here are pix of a couple of others View attachment 269818 View attachment 269819,

The walnut was a bit of a kick (funny), but I got rid of it. I've now got several sorbus (rowan / mountain ash) - that b&w pot now has one in it. View attachment 269817 and another that has a little better fall color View attachment 269820 that partially satisfy my need for a compound leaf challenge.

Would you recommend conker as bonsai?

 

[0soyoung]

Would you recommend conker as bonsai?

As mame, they are enormous fun.
They are also quite interesting horticulturally as they have two different kinds of buds that do different things.

 

[Marlborough Handcraft]

Here are two small submissions.

Ficus golden gate that I just pruned back a small bit to open it up and hopefully get a little back budding,

and a recently potted too little in a @sorce pot

 

[hinmo24t]

This did drop the red leaves this spring, putting out smaller green ones. It was repotted higher to allow the root base to expand. View attachment 257613

african violet??

 

[ABCarve]

african violet??

Erodium

 

[HamburgerTrain]

Here are two small submissions.

Ficus golden gate that I just pruned back a small bit to open it up and hopefully get a little back budding,
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and a recently potted too little in a @sorce pot
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that @sorce rectangle i like

 

[Carol 83]

that @sorce rectangle i like

Go buy one of his pots, they are nice.

 

[HamburgerTrain]

Go buy one of his pots, they are nice.

i'm holding out for a pink & purple septagon

 

[Marlborough Handcraft]

i'm holding out for a pink & purple septagon

Go buy one of his pots, they are nice.

They are nice, and @sorce is as nice as they come.

 

[cockroach]

A little update.
Taiwan is having the worst drought in 56 years. Our city has days left of water. The trees have taken a knock these past few months.

 

[cockroach]

Sorry for crappy pics. Didn't realize how dirty lens was.

 

[pweifan]

Our city has days left of water.

Sorry to hear I hope things improve for your area!

 

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

I’ve found a channel called Bonsaify and he has a number of smaller trees. It’s got me interested in the style

I saw this the other day and it just spoke to me. P afra “kaleidoscope”. I was going to put it in a small pot, but decided last min to put it in a bigger pot to grow out a bit as well as get the needed tilt. Informal upright. There is an equally long branch right out the back, too

 

[cockroach]

Got some repotting done today. We have had an exceptionally warm winter and think we have hit 12°C once on a colder night.
With a lot of trees showing growth starting I decided to get stuck in.
A small elm cutting that I am letting do its own thing to see what happens.


A premna cutting from last season I forgot about and found growing in a ficus pot.


Ficus cascade from a cutting a while back.


Hibiscus cutting that now has its root exposed. Will see how it goes.


Another premna from cutting that's been going a short while


Another premna cutting that is doing its own thing. Most of these trees are just for fun to play with.


Another ficus cascade from cutting. Its ugly but fun.


A ficus I have played with for a few years not. It started as a cutting I just kept twisting. Got to this and and decided I would keep it. I have been tightening the twists over the past 2 growing seasons.

Many of my trees were neglected for the past 3 growing seasons but I hope to get back what I lost and get the trees healthy and repotted again. It may take a while to restore the ramification I lost.