What’s your latest Bonsai related purchase?

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

I bought two Goldcone Juniper for $10 apiece in 5 gal pots. That's about 20 cents a pound. I needed some fill dirt for a project and figured I could get what I needed reducing the roots. It worked. They looked exactly the same going in...
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The other side of both had a lot of dead branches, so I decided to bite the bullet and take them back as far as possible and keep only enough foliage to keep the process going, as in cure it or kill it. I reduced the roots by cutting off the bottom half and then raked my way through half of that. That sounds like I over did it, but they still have more roots than foliage. Considering how ugly the the tops turned out, death may be the best eventuality.
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And looked the same coming out...
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I also stumbled across another Bougie, Blueberry Ice which is one of my favorite and I lost the last of another one two years ago, so this was a welcome find for me, same place, same price...
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As always, there were two small individuals in the pot, and you can never really tell what you have until you take them apart, #1...
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...A very good initial shape, almost one in a million. I will grow this out as is. #2 is so-so and has a break where the two trunks divide. I'm going to experiment and try to slice the two surfaces which have been apart for some time and too dry to knit IMHO, and hormone them together for a couple years. I will put a tiny screw in there, too...
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As you can see, one side without the other is blah, and really not an option. Wish me luck. That gave me five growing tips to root so...
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Damn, can you really take that much off a juniper? Honest question

 

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

A Crassula ovata minor, P afra kaleidoscope, and 2 small, 4oz pots because they were 50% off at $1.50ea. All for

The ovata won’t be in a pot. It just looked fun for the pic. I will put the most branched out afra in the blue one come spring, but will slip pot until then

I’ve been binging a channel called Bonsaify and he does a lot of mame, so I’m inspired to start some

 

[Forsoothe!]

Damn, can you really take that much off a juniper? Honest question

I don't know. Honest answer.

 

[Carol 83]

A "Vibrant" and a Kobai#2 azalea. Stupid time of year to get them, I blame lack of work for my impulse purchases.

 

[Katie0317]

My daughter (3) obviously loves my pink Bunzan pot the best, so when I saw a small one on the $0.99 bonsai auction, I figured she should have it. Went out to the woods and grabbed some moss (or whatever it is) together to put in it for now.

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They seem to match a bit better in person than in the photo though.

@Carol 83 and @RJG2 I've always been determined to never join FB but I've been wanting a Bunzan pot since I first saw one. Are they reasonable on FB auctions? The ones I've seen on Ebay are well over 100 dollars which seems high. I don't shop Ebay on a regular basis...it's not really rewarding for what I'm looking for usually. Are his pots reasonable on FB auctions? So sweet you gave that little pot to your daughter RJG2...Bet she loved it.

Carol, there's a pink one on there now that looks close to yours...maybe a little smaller for 140.00.
Some of his tiny pots are 48.00 and up but I'd like a slightly larger one like the size you bought.

 

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

Have been looking for pyracantha. Noticed a person along my walk has one so was doing some research and would ask them for berries if I saw the owners outside

Well ended up going to Lowe’s and saw they had 2 in stock for $13. Went back this evening and bought one. It’s over 6’, so will cut it back in the spring

 

[Carol 83]

@Carol 83 and @RJG2 I've always been determined to never join FB but I've been wanting a Bunzan pot since I first saw one. Are they reasonable on FB auctions? The ones I've seen on Ebay are well over 100 dollars which seems high. I don't shop Ebay on a regular basis...it's not really rewarding for what I'm looking for usually. Are his pots reasonable on FB auctions? So sweet you gave that little pot to your daughter RJG2...Bet she loved it.

Carol, there's a pink one on there now that looks close to yours...maybe a little smaller for 140.00.
Some of his tiny pots are 48.00 and up but I'd like a slightly larger one like the size you bought.

There were several small ones on the FB .99 Cent Auction. But I have a small one I got from Matt O.a few years ago. I haven't been on Ebay for some time, everything seems overpriced to me. I don't have a FB account either, I joined the bonsai auction groups using my husbands account.

 

[RJG2]

@Carol 83 and @RJG2 I've always been determined to never join FB but I've been wanting a Bunzan pot since I first saw one. Are they reasonable on FB auctions? The ones I've seen on Ebay are well over 100 dollars which seems high. I don't shop Ebay on a regular basis...it's not really rewarding for what I'm looking for usually. Are his pots reasonable on FB auctions? So sweet you gave that little pot to your daughter RJG2...Bet she loved it.

Carol, there's a pink one on there now that looks close to yours...maybe a little smaller for 140.00.
Some of his tiny pots are 48.00 and up but I'd like a slightly larger one like the size you bought.

The person that runs the auction is always posting them. I'll see if you can email him directly or something.

 

[Katie0317]

Thank you RJG2, that's really nice of you. I just have a thing about FB. So many people say they just do it for the auctions but I'd only want pots and TBH those pots are the only pots right now on my 'want' list. Carol, I don't know who Matt O is put it's such a pretty pot.

 

[Deep Sea Diver]

A bunch of Black and Yellow storage racks.

Put together in 20 minutes each.

Now things are sorta getting organized!

cheers
DSD sends

 

[namnhi]

@sorce
All I can say is exceed my expectation!

It wouldn't be sorce without a soriginal in the box.

 

[BeepBeepBonsaiSheep]

P afra “kaleidoscope”. I’m thinking informal upright

 

[Carol 83]

The person that runs the auction is always posting them. I'll see if you can email him directly or something.

I think the ones he was posting all sold last night.

 

[Carol 83]

I don't know who Matt O is

Matt Ouwinga Kaedebonsai-en.

 

[Carol 83]

A pink pixie bougie from the .99 Auctions. I bid the minimum right when the auction was closing, thought I was too late, which was fine. But received a message for shipping information today. You'd be amazed how fast I can delete a message from my husband's FB account.

 

[RJG2]

I think the ones he was posting all sold last night.

I've noticed he posts Bunzans almost every week, I was keeping my eye out for a matching one

He gave me his email and I PM'd it to @Katie0317

 

[Bonsai Orange County]

Picked up this rad Sara Rayner pot. Not sure what I’ll put in it yet but really dig the blue on it!! In transit so I’ve not laid eyes on it in person yet.

 

[Calnicky]

I bought 4 trees at the Puget Sound Bonsai Association auction - and didn't go over my pre-agreed upon (with myself) limit! They are: A hawthorn cascade originally styled/owned by Bob Law of Bonsai Society of Portland, a collected subalpine fir from Utah, a mugo pine and a trident maple forest. Photos attached.

And here's the maple forest today (just to add a little color to your lives):

 

[Calnicky]

They all need work done...so will keep me busy for some time...but improve my collection substantially. That was the goal actually - better trees! I have some things that will have to get planted out or put in the firepit.

 

[namnhi]

Those are definitely are nice to add to your collection. I actually saw those trees in the YouTube video. Very nice trees.
The mugo looks a bit crowded to me though.