Search results

I bit the bullet and designed a bonsai pot. 3D Printing may not be the most efficient method of manufacturing bonsai pots. The print is 10x10 cm base and 8cm high (not counting the legs) and took about 6 hours and 150g of filament which at cost is about $5. Print farms however are now...

Thank you for the comments. I will update the title to remove “fast” :) . It was kind of a joke because later on I emphasize that “fast” is 5 years. Come next spring I’ll give a try to the fusion focus pocus and report back here. I should have a fully grown and fused bonsai in 2 to 3 weeks...

@MattE , there is a plant support contest over at printables. I just posted my entry here to try to get a bit of though. You may have done other 3D printed bonsai or plant things that you may want to look into sharing there.

Anyone tried 3D printing bonsai supports ? My new hobby is 3D printing and I am trying to somehow find a way justifying the cost of the printer, so this is one of them. Printables came up with a contest for 3D printed plant supports and I thought this may be a good application for it. Here is...

Thank you Leatherback !

Black bag as in the garbage or to prevent evaporatiom ?🥲

So lets see how it goes with this one. After soaking (it ended up soaking for 4 hours or so), I put it in a 1:1 perlite to spagnum peat moss (only thing I had available) and gave it a good watering, it is in a shaded place receiving indirect sunlight for now. Let's see how it does. I've...

Hi all, I just grabbed this from the sidewalk (left for garbage collection) of a nearby neighbor. The tree was likely left Today, but I am not sure when it was removed. I cut the branches but left all the root that was available and soaked it in water for about an hour. I think it is an...

I am posting a few pictures of the air layers for my long term Camellia candidates. I will come back maybe about four months from now and update to see the results. First is a Camellia 'Cinnamon Scentsation', a “sport” of a hybrid between Camellia lutchuensis and Camellia japonica. 4x air...

I found these beautiful variegated flowers azalea at a publix this past week and immediately though of my Wife and how lucky she is to have me find these gifts for her . My wife doesn’t like plants very much, but I was sure this exotic plant would make her very happy. I only asked of her to...

If you are one of those of with not a shred of greed and a big giving heart willing to make your significant other without expecting nothing in return, then THIS is your thread. Please post here if you gave your significant other a beautiful gift that won’t go to waste. I am posting the gift I...

Here is one of these two years after. @AZbonsai you are right, they are pretty leggy and I can't get them to flower, maybe they need a simulated drought at rightly timed to get them to flower. Somebody posted something about the Willow in Harry Potter and I remembered I had this guy, so it got...

I uncovered a bit of the top soil and started with some branch selection to get this one started in his (the 'Schilling's Dwarf' are all male plants). There is an eyesore branch in between the two main ones, and I am leaving it there in the hopes that I can let it grow wild during the 4 years...

Illex Vomitoria 'Schilling's Dwarf', native stock nursery purchased from South Seminole Farm & Nursery, East Lake Drive, Casselberry, FL, for US$28.50 The first image is of the tree in a 7 gallon pot, purchased about a week ago (Jan-2021) The second image is a detail of the trunk, it is about...

A few more Camellias (writing the cultivars here before I forget): - Camellia sasanqua “Yuletide” (7 and 15 gallon) - Camellia (japonica x lutchuensis) “cinnamon cindy) (7 gallon - the one with the flower - Camellia sasanqua “Leslie Ann” (2 gallon)) I keep telling my wife that She should be...

Leo, Sorry to hear about the Camellias. What zone are you in ?

It'd be cool to see the Literati full of flowers. It being an azalea you may have to let it fill in a bit more at the top to stay healthy. What do the flowers look like ?

What is this banana bush bonsai looking like Today ?

A couple of more photos of another Camellia I bought after. This time I drove to Ocala-FL, to Bob Wines Camellia Gardens. They have acres of camellias for sale. The prices are higher than the Home Depot's... I was able to find a Camellia Sasanqua that I couldn't resist. This was a 3-gallon...

Recently I bought a bunch of Camellia sansaqua from Home Depot. I posted some pictures on another thread (Sorry JoeR for hijacking your thread). (I also got schooled by Leo on Nebari and my instant gratification tendencies). In mybdefense, just saw some amazing good looking Camellia sansaqua...

- Very good point Leo, I do have a "nebari" that ended up wrong as you described it... the soil in between the larger roots washed out and the roots ended up being exposed in that case. I do plan to keep these guys growing for a couple of seasons, so I will resist the instant gratification to...

Here are a couple more pictures of the best base/nerabi (about 4" at widest in the roots and about 2" at base of taper - these came in a 3 gallon pot). This one has a date of May-2018 in the tag. The question asked about why Camellias are not as often used for Bonsai is kind of a puzzle to me...

During the Thanksgiving break I caved into my obsession and bought a good number of Camellia sasanqua (about 8) from home depot the box store... they have good looking feet... by eBay standards they are about 40 years old at least, although the dates on the plastic sticks in the pots are from...

Has anybody tried here to fuse azaleas ? Maybe two with different flower colors (instead of grafting), and also to get a larger trunk faster ? I found two instances in the internets: 1. Redit (2 years ago, unknown where it went). 2. Mangetsu azalea from bonsai fusion (4 years ago, not sure...

And here are some of the root cuttings that came out of it. The first one is pretty large. About the same girth as the main tree. In the second, a root cutting (middle) is planted backward. Will it root ?