What’s your latest Bonsai related purchase?
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LittleDingus
Omono
A couple of hexes from Sahici...a Turkish potter. Well, I assume Turkish...the pots came from Istanbul (not Constantinopal 
) It took them a bit to get across the pond.
Nice heavy pots! These things feel solid!!
) It took them a bit to get across the pond.Nice heavy pots! These things feel solid!!
Clicio
Masterpiece
Well, I did the same!
Camellia oil and a Sabitory Rust Eraser.
Now I miss the ceramic bottle, will complain hahahaha
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
A couple of hexes from Sahici...a Turkish potter. Well, I assume Turkish...the pots came from Istanbul (not Constantinopal
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Nice heavy pots! These things feel solid!!
Intervention!
Sorce
Joe Dupre'
Omono
I just ordered another turntable bearing flange from Walmart. It's always good to have a spare. I'm using my regular one now to turn out concrete pots.
River's Edge
Masterpiece
LOL Generally the desirable attributes for collection are old age and lots of character !
I think we all probably need that, hence "Bonsai Nut".
LittleDingus
Omono
To be fair, I ordered these before I said I was done for the season! They just took a bit to get here is all.
sorce
Nonsense Rascal
Fair to who? Forgive me if I have known you are with spouse but now know you are single! If not..are you being fair to them?
If you haven't started a resale business....at this rate, you will.....have to?
Love!
You got it bad!
I would be excited to see a thread on your pot collection. This is not the first I remember from overseas? I'd love to hear about how you're finding these things and what attracts you to them.
That dark and yellow joint is nice!
Sorce
River's Edge
Masterpiece
Sounds like Amazon shipping! Last order took 30 days, was reported lost twice. Took five days to travel the last 100 miles. And that was not involving any other continents!
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
LittleDingus
Omono
Fair to who? Forgive me if I have known you are with spouse but now know you are single! If not..are you being fair to them?
If you haven't started a resale business....at this rate, you will.....have to?
Love!
You got it bad!
I would be excited to see a thread on your pot collection. This is not the first I remember from overseas? I'd love to hear about how you're finding these things and what attracts you to them.
That dark and yellow joint is nice!
Sorce
I'm one of the lucky few whose personal economy is better post covid. We don't eat out as much, travel less, and no commute
. I have hundreds of plants in grow bags that I need to reduce the footprint of, I'm bored, and my wife likes all the plants about the house I used to always buy plastic. But UV kills even good plastic in a couple of years. The only "old" pots I have are all ceramic...mass produced box store ceramic...but ceramic.
So...now I'm buying nicer pots
As for how I choose? The first few from @sorce were a form of payback for his involvement with BNut...I've been lurking here for a loonnngggg time. He's quirky...I enjoy his obtuse posting style
. The rest from @sorce: I tend to be loyal: as long as he continues to make pots I like that aren't too redundant with what I have and are a quality I like, I will continue to look at what he offers and buy when I'm willing.In general though, I like a quirky pot but with a design that is cohesive. I don't often buy pots to "fit" trees...especially ceramic. Ceramic will outlive any tree I own...just ask the archeologists
I buy pots I like. I pot plants in them as soon as I can to put them to use. If I don't like the pairing, I change it when I have something better. My 30 year old jade plant has been through more than a dozen pots!I do need to stop buying pots for a bit though
I still have a few needing trees and I hate having too many empty pots...they invite more plants! Fear not though...I still have a loottt more plants needing pots
...and I belive this is actually my first foreign pot purchase. There's a few foreign potters I'd really like to try pots from but shipping from Australia can cost more than the pot itself
Sorry to hijack the thread...I'll have another pot to post soon
badatusernames
Omono
Fair to who? Forgive me if I have known you are with spouse but now know you are single! If not..are you being fair to them?
If you haven't started a resale business....at this rate, you will.....have to?
Love!
You got it bad!
I would be excited to see a thread on your pot collection. This is not the first I remember from overseas? I'd love to hear about how you're finding these things and what attracts you to them.
That dark and yellow joint is nice!
Sorce
I got a couple from European Bonsai Collective, it was fairly easy. What originally attracted me to them were other, more expensive pots, to be honest. Tastes can change quickly so I've slowed down. I think for me, it's hard to do the tree and the pot at the same time without a few sitting around when the right time for repotting hits. Everyone else is buying them then, too, you know? So I feel as though non-repotting seasons may not be a bad time to get a couple if you like 'em.
I do think I will probably be more likely to stick to what's available in America though, be it vintage or new. Adding the shipping cost does bring you into kind of a different tier of pot if you were to spend it all here, it seems. I mean, I don't know.
hinmo24t
Masterpiece
IRS onto any of you with selling pots and whatnot in here? LLCs? hoping to sell a few items on here and craigslist down the line a bit
but as much as it hurts me i understand the hurt they can put on us
but as much as it hurts me i understand the hurt they can put on us
badatusernames
Omono
I honestly never thought about it. You mean like an actual store? I would think that selling via forums wouldn't even be on their radar, I don't think they even care about stock trades under $10k
hinmo24t
Masterpiece
i wondered for a second if theres a $$ margin for when you have to report/file/pay, but then i assumed they want it all
big gov sux
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hinmo24t
Masterpiece
if a dollar was involved, they want to know
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
I'm not certain about what the federal threshold is for reporting something as income is, but most states put it around $5,000 total income a year I believe. That's anything you make TOTAL by any means over $5k must be reported and taxed.
So, technically, anything more than fistful of coins has to be reported as income. If it's onesies and twosies over a year, no one will notice or care, but anything that would significantly impact your personal purchasing power needs taxed.
So, technically, anything more than fistful of coins has to be reported as income. If it's onesies and twosies over a year, no one will notice or care, but anything that would significantly impact your personal purchasing power needs taxed.
Forsoothe!
Imperial Masterpiece
Back in the early 2000's I inquired to the State of Michigan about collecting sales taxes (here, 6%) on club plant sales, and they basically blew me off. The club made about $2k/yr at that time.The costs of processing the paperwork is not nominal in bureaucracies, and there is a break-even point for them, I'm sure, and I don't know what it is. The account has to be set up and then cycled through their monitoring processes quarterly or whatever, and that ain't nothin' either. Clubs and hobbyist businesses which are not really intended to make much money are most often short-lived creatures, and if pressed to off-set sales with costs, the profits can be below that minimum nut for the state, same thing for the Federales, except the nut's much bigger. The agents have to show they're worth their salt, and pestering some nobody jerk for couple grand ain't worth the candle.
BigBen
Shohin
What, MORE trees!?!?
Yup, my 30 new sticks, I mean trees arrived today, from Cold Stream Farm.
Still preparing for Retirement, and my Bonsai enjoyment will be a big part of it (along with my other hobbies).
When they say it’s difficult to slow-down your collecting in the beginning, they weren’t kidding! LOL...
Oh, and having some OCD tendencies, can be a real witch sometimes. LOL...
Going to pot ‘em up & let ‘em grow.
Hopefully I’ll keep them alive for a very long time.
Yup, my 30 new sticks, I mean trees arrived today, from Cold Stream Farm.
Still preparing for Retirement, and my Bonsai enjoyment will be a big part of it (along with my other hobbies).
When they say it’s difficult to slow-down your collecting in the beginning, they weren’t kidding! LOL...
Oh, and having some OCD tendencies, can be a real witch sometimes. LOL...
Going to pot ‘em up & let ‘em grow.
Hopefully I’ll keep them alive for a very long time.
| Wisteria - 2-3' | 6 | |
| Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) - 1-2' seedling | 4 | |
| Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) - 12-18'' Spring Only | 4 | |
| American Beech (Fagus grandifolia) - 2-3' Spring only | 4 | |
| American Hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana) - 1-2' | 4 | |
| Weeping Willow (Salix babylonica) - 1-2' | 4 | |
| American Larch (Larix laricina) - 6-12" * Spring Only * | 4 |
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