Newbies - want to share your trees?

[Lumaca]

Nice! Please us posted so we can all see how this works out for you.
btw: Please edit your profile and you approximate location and USDA zone so as you need assistance we can tell what area and climatic zone you are in.
Cheers
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Will do, but I don't think there's a USDA equivalent of being right in the equator hahaha.

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Will do, but I don't think there's a USDA equivalent of being right in the equator hahaha.

We in the US would call that”Tropical” or Mai Tai weather
Best
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[dtreesj]

@dtreesj truth....without the left part of it... it's dope.

I'd cut it off sooner than later.

Unless you have some kind of street sign plan for it.

Left then right.

Sorce

Yeah, I'll chop that off. Should I remove the right trunk as well? There's some dead wood that goes through the middle so I think it will end up being a hollow tree later.

 

[AussieBonsai]

This looks fantastic! Nice job cleaning and styling a rough piece of material. Having that super long branch looks fun to work with. As it develops, you can get a some height on the trunk and establish more of an apex. What is the variety?

It was sold as a ‘pine’... obviously it’s a juniper. I believe it’s a juniperus horizontalis, but I’m not certain.

 

[Darthcider]

Just a couple of days into the hobby.
Here are the my two purchases, from the garden centre; a maple, but I don't know what type, and a Chinese elm.
Hi from Wales, in the UK.

 

[martibab]

Hi Clorgan and other newbies. Like some of you, I decided to try to start growing some trees as a hobby during lockdown. So far, I have a few cotoneaster seedlings, about 4" tall, a few cherry seedlings, a sambucus, now about a foot tall, which I am realising might not be much good for bonsai purposes, a hawthorn, about 9" now, and 10 acer cuttings of various kinds. I've already lost some oak, conifer, hawthorn, whitebeam and hornbeam cuttings, so you can see I'm on a steep learning curve here! The conifer is one my wife gave me to play with, having had it a few years. I do like it and would not want to destroy it mindlessly, though if I could start to practice training it without killing it I would like to have a go. So any good advice would be very welcome here!

 

[sorce]

Yeah, I'll chop that off. Should I remove the right trunk as well? There's some dead wood that goes through the middle so I think it will end up being a hollow tree later.

Start it's own thread!

Sorce

 

[AussieBonsai]

This looks fantastic! Nice job cleaning and styling a rough piece of material. Having that super long branch looks fun to work with. As it develops, you can get a some height on the trunk and establish more of an apex. What is the variety?

Now I’m pretty sure it’s procumbens nana

 

[Clorgan]

Despite the heavily damaged cotyledons, the 2 baobabs kept on growing fine. The peel method I used seem to have caused the damage but the seedlings don't seem to care.

The small one had a dead cotyledon which fell off when I tried to inspect it (it seemed to be blocking the seedling from growing). Under the dead leaf was the true leaf trying to grow sideways horizontally, which would have been interesting.View attachment 314929

Boababs remind me of my favourite book - The Little Prince Good luck with them! I'd love to see updates

 

[Clorgan]

Hi Clorgan and other newbies. Like some of you, I decided to try to start growing some trees as a hobby during lockdown. So far, I have a few cotoneaster seedlings, about 4" tall, a few cherry seedlings, a sambucus, now about a foot tall, which I am realising might not be much good for bonsai purposes, a hawthorn, about 9" now, and 10 acer cuttings of various kinds. I've already lost some oak, conifer, hawthorn, whitebeam and hornbeam cuttings, so you can see I'm on a steep learning curve here! The conifer is one my wife gave me to play with, having had it a few years. I do like it and would not want to destroy it mindlessly, though if I could start to practice training it without killing it I would like to have a go. So any good advice would be very welcome here!
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Not plant specific advice (think I'm a way off being qualified for that ) Forum advice - create seperate threads for any projects you think you would like to track progress or ask lots of questions - it's really helpful to have info and advice in a place you can find it easily and do listen to people on here (even if you don't like their answer hahaa), you'll soon see that there are so many lovely, knowledgable and experienced people on here!

 

[Lumaca]

Thank you all for the warm welcome! Actually I was wondering if anyone can help me with this, is this white fuzz on my pine seedling something I should be worried about?

 

[Marty626]

Just a couple of days into the hobby.
Here are the my two purchases, from the garden centre; a maple, but I don't know what type, and a Chinese elm.
Hi from Wales, in the UK.

Im new too, but I think that’s a bloodgood acer palmatum! Can anyone else confirm that?

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

Im new too, but I think that’s a bloodgood acer palmatum! Can anyone else confirm that?

Hmm... That was my guess at first glance. However at closer look it seems to be too deeply dissected to be Bloodgold. Best guess I can come up with is that it’s in the Matsumurae Group and either Sherwood Flame or Burgundy Lace from glancing through Vertrees.
Cheers
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[Darthcider]

@Marty626 and @Deep Sea Diver, thank you both for your help.
Much appreciated at this stage.

Clive

 

[Bayard]

What a nice thread =)

I got a bunch of collected trees aswell as seedlings from this year. The ones I find interesting at the moment, in order, Ribes alpinum, Ribes nigrum, Sorbaria sorbifolia, Acer palmatum, and a an Acer platanoides (I rekon). I got interested in trees/plants/bonsai this year so I´m just taking it as it comes, super fun!

 

[SC1989]

Got some collected silver maple And oak And a defoiliated palmatum elswhere. Not a covid noob but not even a year in. I have a problem.... says my wife

 

[tainoson]

my own foray into bonsai started in march and was highly encouraged by covid, haha. it's like drinking from a fire hose, but man is it addictive!

my first attempt at "cleaning."






had this one since april, no idea what to do yet. some crazy tops on either trunk, real wild 90 degree branches at the apex. just gonna let it grow and see what comes to me.


late season re-pot. wife brought this serissa home from a grocery store, complete with glued-on rocks and painted moss- potting soil and a ceramic pot with no drain hole. could smell the rot and decomposition. figured what the heck, repotted over a rock and it's been in the shade/dappled light for the past two weeks. who knows, but we'll see.


an extremely generous family friend heard about my new exploration and gave me several of his own trees- i'm terrified and just hoping to keep them alive. so happy to have found this community- you all are great inspirations and the knowledge here is incredible.



we're glad to be here,

Adam

 

[Marty626]

I’m a newbie, I got into bonsai about 6 years back I always had an interest in trees, I worked for my uncles arborist company so I had my foot in the door when it came to collecting trees sometimes customers wanted to get rid of trees so I would dig em up, I dug up a coast live oak, olive tree with a bad ass nebari and trunk, a one of a kind boxwood with a gnarly trunk, and I had bought the usual S shaped Chinese elm from my local bonsai nursery, my landlord at the time and I had agreed that she would let me keep up to six trees fast forward 3 months later she bitched about the trees and I had to get rid of em, I lost my Interest in bonsai, about a year ago I came across a clearance dwarf Alberta spruce and my love for bonsai resparked and I’m so glad it’s back I now have the Alberta spruce, a Colorado blue spruce, crepe myrtle pecos (semi dwarf I believe) a cream de mint pittosporum, 2 acer palmatums that aren’t doing good at the moment I really hope they pull through and now my 7 year old son is interested in it so I got him a juniper I don’t remember the species, but enough babbling here are some pictures

crepe myrtle repotted this spring I got some advice on here about trimming back to 2-3 leaves to get another flush of growth, sorry I can’t remember who it was but thank you very much!


Colorado blue spruce I removed about 40% of growth back in January and wired big branches just to put some small movement into them since I heard these like to spring back into they’re natural positions


cream de mint pittosporum has a nice thick trunk and a descent nebari, I personally haven’t seen these as bonsai I’m looking forward to developing this one into pre bonsai material, Burried this one into the ground back in February-marchish


My sons juniper, I don’t remember the species, blue something , thinned out and repotted into my soil mix back in March, had some die back but it’s pushing new growth now

 

[Marty626]

I couldn’t upload this picture with my last post, Here’s the one that resparked my love for bonsai, dwarf Alberta spruce, cleaned out all the dead stuff and repotted in January since I saw the buds swelling, added some guy wires to separate the trunks and to add movement into them, thinking of doing a twin trunk style with this one

 

[atlarsenal]

I've only been doing bonsai for a little over three years, so I definitely consider myself a newbie still. I've wanted a ginkgo since seeing the stunning fall foliage of members trees. It was never in my budget to purchase a larger nursery tree to chop, but this spring when I went to the flower and garden show there was a guy giving away tree seedlings, and when I asked what kind he had one of the types was ginkgo. I got one and my daughter got one and gave it to me. They were bare root and the root looked like a carrot with smaller feeder roots coming out the sides. So I figured with feeder roots up higher I'd go for it and cut over half of the thick center root off, dipped it in rooting hormone for good luck and planted them in a Vicki Chamberlain pot, making it truly "sticks in a pot". Fast forward a few months and I've gotten some pretty good growth. The plan was to just let them grow this year.View attachment 309994

So how hard was it finding that pot? I have a little ginkgo that I have been looking for a yellow pot to match for 2 years.