What’s your latest Bonsai related purchase?

[pandacular]

over a year coming . Lack of sources of Primarily JWP lead to asking a specialist nursery to piggyback there order from iseli nursery . Several I asked for were denied . But here they are . First up Joe’s Bess bristlecone pine . Next Catherine Elisabeth JWP . Last Fukuzuma JWP . All ordered sight unseen . All in 3 gallon pots . I’m happy with the BC graft and the CE . The fuku not so much . ( my original thinking that it’s listing as prone to multi trunk ) might hide the graft best . But it’s all good . The first 2 have nice grafts and dwarf needles . I’ll most likely start threads on these . Any thoughts welcome

Looks like a nice haul! I’m curious if you know what root stock Iseli uses for their white pine. I’ve tried contacted them to no avail, but perhaps you know after this.

My latest bonsai purchase is from Stone Lantern: a Kaneshin 8B, narrow concave cutter for creating deadwood, as well as a few copies of Jonas’ book to add to the extensive library at the Pacific Bonsai Museum.

 

[Frozentreehugger]

Looks like a nice haul! I’m curious if you know what root stock Iseli uses for their white pine. I’ve tried contacted them to no avail, but perhaps you know after this.

My latest bonsai purchase is from Stone Lantern: a Kaneshin 8B, narrow concave cutter for creating deadwood, as well as a few copies of Jonas’ book to add to the extensive library at the Pacific Bonsai Museum.

Last spring they answered the root stock . Question all there JWP are grafted on mugo . For the previous 8 years . Before that about 50 percent . I’m unsure of the BC , there use of mugo makes sense . 2 fold one most of the JWP are dwarves . So dwarf root stock . But most likely it’s from there . Extensive program in recent times to create new mugo cultivars . I’m assuming they have a lot of mugo .

 

[shohin_branches]

Bought this discount black pine at the club meeting. It has some health issues, looks like it may have been decandled last year and from what I can tell it's a Scots pine so first year will be rebuilding health.

 

[KateM]

 

[PerryB]

Today at the National Arboretum Bonsai Show: a Japanese Larch (from Meehan's),
a nylon and a wire brush, camellia oil, fertilizer baskets, and some BioGold.

 

[WEI]

also at the potomac bonsai festival:

a ~25(?) year old lodgepole pine, a tree originally collected by Randy Knight that passed through Bjorn’s garden. promising native yamadori for literati that I’m looking forward to developing further



and some wonderful wood fired pots. mostly for kusamono or accents, with one shohin rectangle full of personality, from Kit Ruseau and Forest Inn Pottery.

 

[Jrmcmich]

Got a jacqueline hillier elm today

 

[Darth Masiah]

upgrading my sulfur i use for ipm. from checking out the experience of cannabis cultivator Capulator, this works a lot better than regular wettable sulfur. i have to stay on top of mildews and fungus in my environment, so I'm spraying at least once a month. sap sucking insects like aphids and thrips don't like it either.

 

[ShadyStump]

upgrading my sulfur i use for ipm. from checking out the experience of cannabis cultivator Capulator, this works a lot better than regular wettable sulfur. i have to stay on top of mildews and fungus in my environment, so I'm spraying at least once a month. sap sucking insects like aphids and thrips don't like it either.

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I'm going to have to look into this. Those sap sucking buggers you mentioned have been just horrible the past year or two, and I can't figure out what to do with them.

 

[Darth Masiah]

I'm going to have to look into this. Those sap sucking buggers you mentioned have been just horrible the past year or two, and I can't figure out what to do with them.

spinosad products work very well for soft bodied insects like that.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

I bought some trees at the Michigan All-State Bonsai Show. The pine came with the price of the class.

Hotel photo of a Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘sekka’, the wife wanted.



Class bought JBP Bunjin style.



hotel shot of cork bark JBP

And a Larch I got at the show and worked on in a class.


After

 

[IzzyG]

I’ve been wanting to add a tree collected by the late Jerry Morris and finally had the chance to do so this week.

 

[Carol 83]

Hotel photo of a Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘sekka’, the wife wanted

Sure she did.....

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

Sure she did.....

Ha. She did, scouts honor. Not sure why I'd make that up, but she also doesn't want it styled and kept in the house. I said no it's going outside and as time passe I may forget she told me not to style it.

 

[Michigan Tree Murderer]

ABS Swag bag contents. A reusable bag, bumper sticker, tape measure, four copies of the Journal, & moss spores.

 

[ShadyStump]

Going to try and revive this poor olive.

Still plenty of flex in the limbs, so

 

[Japonicus]

I may forget she told me not to style it.

Mother tree. Cuttings root easily.


Got 2 Chinese cascade pots. Stamps illegible.

 

[19Mateo83]

Mother tree. Cuttings root easily.

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Got 2 Chinese cascade pots. Stamps illegible.

If you don’t mind me asking, where did you find those? Been looking for a good cascade pot.

 

[Cajunrider]

I need recommendations for a break barrel air rifle for mice/rat/squirrel. I would consider PCP is you can convince me.

 

[Japonicus]

If you don’t mind me asking, where did you find those? Been looking for a good cascade pot.

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