tie fishing lead weights to the end of the branches.
tools you need, concave cutters...might be all you need. 30-12-12, who said that? that's grass fertilizer. most bonsai fertilizers have n-p-k...
black leaves...to much water, from the pictures you can see that there's a patch of white mold...the pot is shallow enough; stick you finger in...
i used to akadama my plants until I found out that I had to water my plant twice a day and fert on a hydroponic schedule. So I went full circle...
Re: Japanese Maple question you can bury it, and if you want, apply root hormone for further separation down the line.
I think overtime the crotch will not be able to carry the branches, and one side of the tree will split off. for identification photo graph a...
yes...to your questions. don't yank, pinch...if you have to cut with tools it then that's pruning. doesn't matter as long as you don't yank....
I have a uncle who thinks his weeping japanese maple is shrub and attacks it with hedge clippers. What you can do is maintenance pruning....
+1 for air layering usually they're suppose to match red to red; green to green.
soil: equal parts (sandy material(turface, perlite, vermiculite, etc...), bark small nugget, compost). you would have to prop it up for a few...
wow 3 inch trunk 2 feet tall Take a bonsai class and pot it...ppl will envy you. Your neighbor will lose it and you'll never see it again. Just...
If you're still there tropics dot ca has some Trachycarpus wagnerianus has a 1 gallon for $25 cdn down by Delta, near Pt Roberts. Cesar 98012...
bluish red maple In Burnaby, BC over at Metrotown mall, there's a bonsai stand, Sunny Bonsai, who has a couple of maples, raised indoor, pot on a...
me too Same happened to me. my Shindeshojo turned orangy, seiryu/yello, omurayama and kurabeyama went bluish? I'm not too concerned, I hope...
my dissectum When I bought a sekimori from a grower in N.Carolina, it went brown on me too. So I brought it to my garage and put it under a grow...
