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I plan on keeping a sort of blog here. Add some comments or discussion. If your new, there may be lots to learn here. If you been at a while, I plan on adding some interesting things I have learned from many people thru the years.

Most of the benches have been repotted by now. I still have a few to go, mostly junipers, which can be repotted later than the D trees. I stitched together three shots and made one photo of 3/4'rs of my bench. The shohin area needs some new shelves which I plan on getting to later this week.
 

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Today was a day of repotting. I repotted 30 tridents and 8 elms. The elms are for a workshop at the shohin seminar in 2014. I put them into 6 inch clay bulb pans. In california we do not get hard freezes, so usuing caly pots is a good way to get some air into the soil without the pot breaking down. These elms should do well in this nice soil and breathing room.
 

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great idea.
ive got to say thanks for all you share, you are one of the reasons i visit here and i really look for your posts.
can you talk a little about that pine in the dark/black pot on the back shelf it looks great
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Need to make trident cutting for the next few years projects. The last cutting I did now have 1/2 trunks and were repooted today from 6 inch clay pots to 8 inch clay pots. Some still need to be transplanted as I ran out of pots.

Finding clay bulb pans is hard to do. Most of the ones I have I bought on the coast. Will buy some more we I go camping in two weeks.

This is thirty tridents. These have soaked for 15 minutes in 1% IBA diluted 20 %.
 

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All these tridents were whacked back with the chicken cleaver, and repotted into cut down pond baskets. Two have 2 inch trunks and two have 3 inch trunks.
 

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I'll bite... Your irrigation system looks pretty simple, and I'm curious how you connected water to the area, if it's removed from your household water supply. I'm exploring options, simple is good, and somehow I need to get water from the house to the fence. Thoughts?
 

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Worked on this California juniper. I have stopped for a day or two cuase the tridents were getting away from me and need faster attention if they were going to be repotted this year. I started on this juniper in 2005 when I put it in this pot. It was collected in 2003 and was really a bush. I let the branches get away from me and all the green has to be chased back in to make this thing even presentable. I removed a 1.5 inch branch and have another on to do later this week even larger. Both will be worked into jins. I havn't measured the trunk in a while but I think it is around 5 inches across.

More to come on this one as well as two more later this week. Three if I get ambitious. The fourth one is a real monster in dire need of taming. Maybe a pcture tomorrow.
 

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Hah! Repotted 38 trees and still managed to mow the lawn also. I am pooped.

See ya all later.
 

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I'll bite... Your irrigation system looks pretty simple, and I'm curious how you connected water to the area, if it's removed from your household water supply. I'm exploring options, simple is good, and somehow I need to get water from the house to the fence. Thoughts?

That is my vacation water. If I go out of town I use that system that is on a clock with my lawn system. I water all my trees by hand. From the City system. Very hard, it turns my pots white in a few months so I have that added burdon.

I put in a whole new backyard water system for the lawn and planters, so I ran an exta 1 inch line to the bench. I reduce that to 1/2 and I can throw water about 12 feet. It runs 4 minutes once a day around 2 pm when I am gone.
 

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Another good one Al, that workshop should make for happy participants, those clevered chickens, I mean tridents do resemble chickens now, yup a couple of extra square inches might be good for the shohin area. Keep up the good work.
 

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Cool thread.I've managed to get my trees out for a few day's here and there.Then I put them away when too cold at night.Luckily I can do that in 6 minutes.I also get to come home at lunch and put them on benches if a very cold morning.I have bought some zelkova seed and am going to create a bunch of zelkova broom.I am going to build a small cold frame under my mobile home for them.I will post a thread maybe like yours someday.Thanks for pic's!
 

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All these tridents were whacked back with the chicken cleaver, and repotted into cut down pond baskets. Two have 2 inch trunks and two have 3 inch trunks.

Now those are some fugly tridents!
 

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You think those are ugly check this one out. Repotted.
 

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Three elms for raffle material at this years show. The middle one is in a ceramic container for a friend. School carnival live auction. I gave him the better of the three.
 

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Put this trident in a larger pot. This one needs a chop. It has too much back and forth going on. Looks pretty silly.
 

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Al, do you have anything going into the national exhibition this year? I am going to try and make it this summer.
 

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you have a wonderful eye.

i have been searching for clay bulb pans for a while now with little success. why are they so hard to find? i guess i'll have to use the plastic ones.
 
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