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Post by garrett on Dec 12, 2013 22:19:37 GMT -5
i'll get them oaks out copp....smiles
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2013 19:34:42 GMT -5
Jingle bells, jingle bells. Donner tried to kiss a flag pole...
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Post by garrett on Dec 15, 2013 19:04:13 GMT -5
smiles
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2014 15:30:37 GMT -5
No NO no!
Hand slapping
No! dammit, getcher own!
Seems the Sapling-In-Cheif wants to drown a couple of my bonsai and use them in aqua-scapes!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2014 14:15:31 GMT -5
Before there was "lucky bamboo" braided together there were guys weaving living saplings into chairs and tables and other stuff.
Todays bonsai battle (on another forum) is how to braid bald cypress together to get to a thicker tree faster.
If ever there was a tree that wants to get a big thick base and grow tall, its BC... Tom shakes head.
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Post by garrett on Feb 9, 2014 20:49:29 GMT -5
No NO no! Hand slapping No! dammit, getcher own! Seems the Sapling-In-Cheif wants to drown a couple of my bonsai and use them in aqua-scapes! rotflmao.........................
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Post by garrett on Feb 9, 2014 20:50:12 GMT -5
you could bonsai a sequoia?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2014 5:04:56 GMT -5
I don't kill many tree babies. B-u-t trees is mortal too. She can have any naturally occuring tree baby corpses for her fish tanks.
As far as training sequoia, there is a close cousin more often used.
Larch and bald cypress are mo' fun as bonsai.
Post Script: Metasequoia, Bald cypress, and Larch, are the big three of deciduous conifers.
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Post by garrett on Feb 12, 2014 23:37:17 GMT -5
bald cypress....smiles
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Post by garrett on Mar 9, 2014 10:44:24 GMT -5
so whatz a cookin at bonsai acres?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2014 11:31:33 GMT -5
so whatz a cookin at bonsai acres? I ordered like it was 1999 from Ken Asmus (OIKOS). Little prunus' etc and if I have any money left will hit Brent Walston's evergreengardenworks.com next month. Walston has contorted quince in three different models (bloom colors) that are to die for.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2014 10:26:57 GMT -5
so whatz a cookin at bonsai acres? This just in: bonsaistudygroup.com/Bonsai Study Group has been Hacked!Um, check the date
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 18:35:16 GMT -5
Smacks head!
Mind, knowing what I just learned today, I am still not going to grow the smallest specie of bonsai. I think I know how somebody (like me) who is not fleet-of-foot could grow mame bonsai.
Seems you set up a bottomless bin of sand and nest your mini-tree babies in it. The babies roots will grow out of their pot and into sand where they can get supplimental water.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 16, 2014 6:52:18 GMT -5
About as close as I ever got to opening an actual business was creation of some business cards.
Drive-by Bonsai Cut down in their youth
(xxx)xxx-xxxx
Inasmuch as your getting well on with propagating skills, if you keep doing it, your gonna have to adopt out rose babies. Unless you have an inheritance, then a little cash coming in will help pay for the water bill. gas for leaf-raiding, etc. There will never be a lot of money, but a buck is proof positive that somebody else thinks whatcher doin' is good thing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 17, 2014 0:57:05 GMT -5
I could just as easily put this in the flowers thread. I got suckered into propagating trees by my co-workers at a congregate home I lived at. In order to keep a short story short, I'm going to generalize many people over a decade into just a few people.
The bad co-worker: would talk to me at the begining of a shift and then take home on the sly a mostly trained tree. Where she would not care for it, till it died. A week (or a month) later she would bring back the corpse, and take another...
The better co-worker: would pester me about the details of how to propagate until showing them finally became easier than describing again how to do it. This ultimately led to the peanut butter jar terrarium solution. I could then send them off packing with the tools of the trade, at a price I could stand.
People are going to pester you until you get (or sell) them what they want.
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Post by garrett on Apr 23, 2014 12:19:07 GMT -5
smiles copp i'm a few seasons away from selling if ever..... fer now just learning what works. I plan on sending cuttings out to ya'lls eventually fo free. and a few family members and coworkers. the rest is purely for my selfish pleasure.smiles
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Post by garrett on Apr 23, 2014 13:54:51 GMT -5
copp I been thinking/wondering? would the sapling in chief want to tell us about her campgrounds? sounds like a parralell mission to what we're doing here? sort of?smiles
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2014 16:54:58 GMT -5
copp I been thinking/wondering? would the sapling in chief want to tell us about her campgrounds? sounds like a parralell mission to what we're doing here? sort of?smiles Garret, I dunno, but she could stand some free press beside my puffing her stuff. I'll ask her.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 13:05:44 GMT -5
copp I been thinking/wondering? would the sapling in chief want to tell us about her campgrounds? sounds like a parralel mission to what we're doing here? sort of?smiles Right now she is sorta like a one-armed paper hanger inna windstorm, This is her first real seasonal opening. She loves the idea of free press, and is willing to overcome a writing skill limit to make on paper what her dreams are. But you may be put on the back burner for a bit. Be patient please.
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Post by garrett on Apr 28, 2014 10:23:39 GMT -5
copp i'm all about realizing dreams and personal growth...smiles I know i'd love to have her input.trials and tribulations....... and aint nunna us ahear no roads scholar. grins
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2014 10:22:57 GMT -5
Well, I learned again that search engines really do work. And if your search drills a dry hole, try again.
I now have a potential source for chinkapin nuts for this fall.
And every time I use the {b]Blue sealĀ©[/b] store finder farther afield, it turns up a horse-cow food store what sells soil components I preffer (like) crushed oyster shell and Grani-Grit.
people what wants some chinkapin nuts need to ask me for some... With an address for me to ship to.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2014 11:54:10 GMT -5
I cracked open my home-made terrariums today. Lilac did not survive . Bald cypress did survive at a 50% rate. I'll tease the BC apart about the 1st of August and get them into one gallon pots, for fall planting 2015. I called Wisteria's senior Ent and gave him the bad news of the winter-killed BC. And of the good news of this years cuttings callusing roots.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2014 11:15:08 GMT -5
I just hacked off all the volunteer wisteria hanging off the back of the garage, at about chest high. Circumspice wants one of the one-eyed-multi-horned-climbing-purple-building- eaters.
I hope she keeps it inna pot as bonsai.
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Post by garrett on Sept 8, 2014 19:46:15 GMT -5
Did kiddo ever show us some pottage pics copp?
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Post by garrett on Sept 8, 2014 19:48:40 GMT -5
Hope springs eternal
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 12:17:36 GMT -5
i'll get them oaks out copp....smiles I'll see 'em when I believe 'em.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 23, 2014 12:22:52 GMT -5
All the tender trees have come indoors, save Wendy's ivy, which should go in the mail Monday or so.
I could've pruned the snot out of the olive, but I got spring cuttings to root last spring. So I'll suffer it too large till its time to make donations.
The Rhododendrum indicum I did give a profound haircut to (it) and repotted it before bringing it in. I expect it may not bloom this spring.
My tender trees have a less than ideal space to overwinter them in. So I deliberately prune to the available space, first.
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Post by coppice on Apr 16, 2020 17:36:54 GMT -5
so whatz a cookin at bonsai acres? I think I finally have a handle on growing bog cranberry, and upland blueberry (uplanders are the short ones). Both have I feel real potential as bonsai when mature. as (mame sized- or, more than one fits in your hand). Plus they can be set loose as food crops to grow in all their Hobbit-esque glory.
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