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Here is what I have been doing. I take an animal feed bin and drill big holes around the sides at the bottom. It allows roots to escape and grow bigger. I cut them each when I work the trees. I also drill small holes in the bottom. I them place them in the ground. I get allot more growth...

That Pentra-bark looks interesting bonsai nut. How does it due with pine moths?

shiitake is a sap hard wood feeder. Different than a bark feeding mushroom. I grow my shiitakes right next to living oak trees and have yet to see one start on a living tree. I have keep about 50 to 100 logs I replace ever few years that way for 20 years. If the trees had a huge wound I...

Looks like a bark mushroom since I don't see any wounds at those locations. Trunk looks wet are you watering the trunk? For mushrooms to fruit they need the right conditions. Food source, Water, temperature and shade helps. Right time of year in the woods you will see lots of small mushrooms...

https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/insects/cicada-damage-to-trees.htm I would think insecticide kills the eggs and larva once the drop off the trees. I treat my trees so not to worried long term. The last time we had allot I remember allot of damage to my yard crepe myrtles...

I have messed with it at home and know a number of makers that have. Most go back to just having the professional shop with the big equipment do it.

If I was doing a wood pot I would have it stabilized like we do Knife handle wood. You can send wood for stabilization see the following company. http://www.kandgstabilizing.com/ I have use. When done the resin will be through out the whole material. Its done with specilzed resin in vacum and...

For the tops you can force growth with cut backs. The trees constantly seem to grow new shoots all over the trunk and branches when worked. 2 trees I cut back earlier in the year. One gave me a nice new top on the old 45 cut. Other tree opted to do the same but really late in the year. It...

Really fun tree to work with cause they grow fast. It's the pots and how the nurserys grow them. I use rubber animal feed bins I drill. The large holes in the sides let roots escape each year helps. I also start from cuttings so I don't have to fight what the nurserys have done. I have mulch...

Yes. My mushroom logs normally need at least a year from fresh cut branches till they will fruit.

Super glue even the really thin stuff I don't think works as well as a stabilizer. Some of the wood stabilizers stuff is super thin and soaks in. I know it doesn't go that deep if the wood is fairly solid. For knife handles we use stabilized wood that is done in a vacuum to get all the way...

I would do a google search on "bonsai wood stabilizer". Some reading out there on the topic. https://www.kaizenbonsai.com/bonsai-tree-care-information/preserving-bonsai-deadwood http://bonsai4me.com/AdvTech/ATPreserving%20Deadwood.html

So mushrooms feed on certain portions of the tree that are dead. It shouldn't kill your tree but it will deteriorate the dead wood excel-rating the rotting of it. Allot of them like sap wood since it often contains some sugars still and isn't as dense. For the mushroom to fruit 3 things have...

Well torching wont prevent it from coming back that just affects the surface. The mushroom you see is just the larger organism fruiting essentially. Look up mushroom life cycle. What you see is supported by the Mycelium that will have spread through the dead wood. You will want to stablize...

I use Sphagum Moss shredded fine which is different that peat moss mixed with Coconut Coir. Some people use bonsai soil I have tried it and have less success. I shred the moss so I can wash most of it out of the roots before planting. If you don't shred it I find you are stuck with a moss ball...