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It's Kev

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I moved a few kilometres south recently and I’m beginning to see the differences in temperature now that winter is creeping in. The first pic is a town where I lived about 100km north of the Tropic of Cancer line...
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And now I’m about the same distance just south of the Tropic of Cancer line...
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I’ll keep an eye on this until it’s really winter. For now, I was in zone 9, now zone 10. Let’s hope my trees get the rest they need the next few months.
 

Anthony

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Kevin,

there is a chap in AusBonsai who has a sound knowledge of J.B.pines.
He said if you cut too late, the results will show more in Spring.

In our search for the technique that yeilds the shorter needles.
Did a cut to branch on 17th July, - 10 days later buds seen.
Then 4th September - needles at 2 inches.

22nd September - cut and thinned to 3 pairs of needles.
Result - it's November and the little spikes that grew are still
little spikes.
Waiting for needles.

The question was -------- due to days ahortening did the J.b.pine
treat the shorter days as winter coming.
For many of the Sub-Tropicals from China, growth slows and stops
around Christmas for us and does not restart until Mid and End of
February. [ Fukien Tea, Serissa s, Southern Chinese elm ,Sageretia t ]

In fact for Sageratia t, if we transplant in Autumn, it dies.
Just learnt that about a variety of Chinese Elm, all transferred last
month died.
Good Day
Anthony

* Our lowest recorded temperature is 64 deg.F [ 17.78 deg.C ]
So you are still colder.
 

It's Kev

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@Cadillactaste kishu Shimpaku, JBP, and maybe Jap maple. And I know olives are tough, but they’re semi desert trees. But I’ll worry about my 9000% summer humidity later when the time comes.

@Anthony is that the guy who also has those amazing olive bonsai? I’ll look him up. And don’t worry about cutting. You taught me very well to leave a tree the hell alone when I just get them ;)
Somewhere in my endless browser tabs that are constantly open there is an actual calendar for pines. And apparently JBP is very forgiving but it’s still a pine nonetheless. I’ll follow that religiously for a while, and I downloaded Ryan Neil’s pine lecture off Youtube. His climate is far colder than ours but I can still use his teaching as a guide.
 

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I thought zone1... my recomendation is get out of there!!
But you meant zone 10!
 
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