I'm not great with junipers..It was not in a huge pot so I didn’t remove much ‘mass’ as it were. I did take it down to bare roots and repotted it deep in bonsai soil. So it still has most roots. The pebbles on top are just for some decoration while the roots become more appealing in the future.
I STILL struggle with patience in this manner. (mostly pertaining to conifers). Always better to brag after following helpful teaching then after making many ill advised mistakes.
Natural tendency to laziness/procrastination helps.I STILL struggle with patience in this manner. (mostly pertaining to conifers)
It doesn't come easy.
Hahaha!!Natural tendency to laziness/procrastination helps.
Nah, bro!Hahaha!!
I'm Hyperactive, and Obsessive (by diagnosis)...
So this is why conifers pose the most difficulty in this manner.
So basically....Nah, bro!
You just follow the dopamine on the wrong paths if that's the case. Instead, go hunt for fungi, moss, stuff that helps these plants survive. Wire, but don't bend yet - save that for another day. Don't pluck needles but cut them to stubs with a scissor (so you can pick them off later when they die AND they'll leave the needle bud).
Grafting a couple junipers will seriously test your hyperfocus; you'll either ragequit or do magic, there is no in between. But the wait afterwards for them to take.. I can't help anyone with that. It's difficult. Worst part this year is that I used parafilm (that breaks open and exposes a healed wound) AND black tape (that shows me exactly nothing!).
I got myself some eighty HD's and I trick myself into working with it. It's not the plant that poses the difficulty, it's me! I need to actively guide that shit. But sometimes I grab a tree from the bench, stare at it for half an hour and force myself to put it back. About six times a week. Luckily I have an explosion of arabidopsis in the garden, so weed picking is something to keep me busy.
This is the approach I have been forced to take my life, and it has lead down some great paths.Nah, bro!
You just follow the dopamine on the wrong paths if that's the case. Instead, go hunt for fungi, moss, stuff that helps these plants survive. Wire, but don't bend yet - save that for another day. Don't pluck needles but cut them to stubs with a scissor (so you can pick them off later when they die AND they'll leave the needle bud).
Grafting a couple junipers will seriously test your hyperfocus; you'll either ragequit or do magic, there is no in between. But the wait afterwards for them to take.. I can't help anyone with that. It's difficult. Worst part this year is that I used parafilm (that breaks open and exposes a healed wound) AND black tape (that shows me exactly nothing!).
I got myself some eighty HD's and I trick myself into working with it. It's not the plant that poses the difficulty, it's me! I need to actively guide that shit. But sometimes I grab a tree from the bench, stare at it for half an hour and force myself to put it back. About six times a week. Luckily I have an explosion of arabidopsis in the garden, so weed picking is something to keep me busy.
But sometimes I grab a tree from the bench, stare at it for half an hour and force myself to put it back. About six times a week.
Right now for me, I got my dopamine by going to my friend's land and dig up trees. It is getting a bit out of hand now that I already have 2+ dozen collected trees in the yard for this year but.... I get my work out and dopamine.Nah, bro!
You just follow the dopamine on the wrong paths if that's the case. Instead, go hunt for fungi, moss, stuff that helps these plants survive. Wire, but don't bend yet - save that for another day. Don't pluck needles but cut them to stubs with a scissor (so you can pick them off later when they die AND they'll leave the needle bud).
Grafting a couple junipers will seriously test your hyperfocus; you'll either ragequit or do magic, there is no in between. But the wait afterwards for them to take.. I can't help anyone with that. It's difficult. Worst part this year is that I used parafilm (that breaks open and exposes a healed wound) AND black tape (that shows me exactly nothing!).
I got myself some eighty HD's and I trick myself into working with it. It's not the plant that poses the difficulty, it's me! I need to actively guide that shit. But sometimes I grab a tree from the bench, stare at it for half an hour and force myself to put it back. About six times a week. Luckily I have an explosion of arabidopsis in the garden, so weed picking is something to keep me busy.