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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2012 15:27:25 GMT -5
I tend to buy off the top shelf for soil when I can't buy in bulk (by the ton). So these two box have about $ 8.00 worth of soil around their feet.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2012 10:25:42 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2012 14:01:59 GMT -5
Now I usually set out my terrarium in April or May (with bald cypress, my most commonly propagated tree).
This year I let the olive get down right leggy. I dunno if this cultivar of olea europa makes an olive fit for humans to eat or not. It's been kept little on purpose cause its a tender tree and cannot live out of doors in the winter.
I clipped off everything obviously lanky and clipped off all but the last four leaves on the end of each twig. Dusted them liberally with rootone and put them in the terrarium filled with 1/2 sifted peat, and 1/2 playground sand.
Time'll tell if they strike roots over the winter under lights.
Crossed fingers.
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Post by garrett on Oct 16, 2012 17:48:11 GMT -5
niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice score copp.........smiles
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2012 15:49:39 GMT -5
I teased apart a little cell of big-box store Ivy this spring. One I gave away, two others survived till re potting a few days ago.
These were propagated much like the olives were oh January or so before being sold down the river to wally-werld.
My four surviving bald cypress cuttings are set out into one gallon pots awaiting a spring plant out at wisteria. In the spirit of full disclosure, there were only 10 or 11 bald cypress cuttings that I started with this spring.
Inasmuch as I went through two surgeries with these cuttings. I'm pleasantly surprised at how well and how many survived.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2012 10:33:23 GMT -5
Sweetfern; Comptonia peregrina. I dunno how south it lives. I never saw it south of Salem (NH). Anyway bundles of its leaves are good to put off fleas, it is perfumed enough to use as smudge. And its one I have grown at times to tick off bonsai growers.
Its leaves look enough like pot that I have had visiting hippies harvest it surreptitiously.
So its a plant I like to keep around to entertain my self.
For cultivation it needs a soil that is utterly free of grass roots, and is mostly sand. it transplants best about now.
And that nice lady (Robin Marble) just sent me some. it is now it its pot with my fingers crossed.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 10:15:21 GMT -5
Can chesnut, walnut, pecan, hickory be bonsai-ed? Um yes sorta. I think the more correect question aught to be can trees with compound leaves be bonsai-ed? That gets a resounding yes. TX ebony is knees and ankles above all the rest I've seen. The leafletts are smaller as are the compound leaves.
By the simple virtue of the size of leaves alone, bonsai made of trees with bigger compound leaves end up having to be bigger as a result.
Dwarfed examples are a great step forward towards dimunition. J-Microcarpa will I suspect do better as bonsai and as a food island candidate.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2012 13:00:03 GMT -5
Its all in a name: Texas Persimmon looks like it should be one heck of a bonsai. Um inasmuch as the fruits are used as a fabric dye (for black). It may be less swell as a snack. (diospyros texana)
The leaves are a lot smaller than the Japanese cultivar.
Peeking over Garrets shoulder should teach me a thing or six...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2013 8:05:28 GMT -5
On another forum a collector was describing his covetousness of trees he saw while driving. I don't want every tree I see while driving.
I will confess to wondering as I drive how to create the effects of nature I see on trees of my potting.
I must remember to pick up some fresh rootone and lime-sulfur...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2013 14:14:15 GMT -5
Dirt dirt dirt. The dirt for trees living in pots for extended period should have about half inert stone (I like chicken scratch).
This year, again Garrets tree babies are headed back to field. That race is gonna get run out.
Next year or the year after tree babies are gonna live for longer and longer periods in their pot. What works for 120 days, does not year in, and year out.
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Post by garrett on Feb 27, 2013 10:13:00 GMT -5
I gots deer pruned apple trees.... redneck bonsai! lol
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2013 11:17:02 GMT -5
Garret i got snowed into bonsai by mowed Japan maples. They were cute as heck and red could be.
The archtypical new england bonsai fiend wasn't bambi, it was bullwinkle...
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