Recent content by raydomz

Yeah buddy! Glad to see it's moving!

The roots will not necessarily stop moving but will redirect, in most cases, up and around themselves. I find air layers often turn to a big mess of a ball if I leave them all season. The heat and humidity inside of the bag are a great environment for growing roots quickly but as you're seeing...

I took an air layer from a Japanese hornbeam this year - the roots developed quickly and in that time we had a major heat spell that lasted a couple of weeks (90-95 every day.) I had the very same situation - the tree looked fine one day and dead the next. Within the space of 2 days most all of...

Watching this one! I have not had good luck with Englemann in the midwest which is a shame, there are a lot of great ones collected out west. They seem to slowly lose vigor over a couple of years and then just die. This happened with two trees collected by Randy Knight. Let us know what you...

Can you photograph the bark along that branch a little closer? Are there other portions of the trunk/branches that have a combination of green and purple bark?

I would suggest not going past viable buds on this years growth. Now, if caught early enough (re: before buds really extend - I pinch by blue's when the new growth is about 1" long) they can be pinched which will induce further budding at the base or even on the pinched shoot (sometimes right at...

Looks like it's off to a great start. I would make the move to jin the large straight section up the middle now, before spring hits. You can start your plans of extending the trunk line upward via the branch on the right more easily this way. My experience with larch has been that if I have a...

The issue with the idea that there is time spent to run auction page, and thus, someone should be compensated goes against the notion of a free marketplace where goods can be bought and sold. If facebook mandated that the group be run a certain way and the auctions be run a certain way then sure...

And this is exactly why there is a renewed push to get the Bonsai Auctions page back up and running. Simple as that. I am no longer active on the page as a moderator (due to time), but was there from the beginning, and can say that the internal conversations about the free group are centered...

Looks great! I would have to agree with you that the last photo would make a great front.

What I see with mine is: they bud fairly early, just after my boxwoods wake up. The buds swell to a bright red before popping green/burgundy/red. Don't be afraid of pulling off/rubbing off the dried old leaves. Or as suggested, shake it out. This is about the time of year that we in zone 5 start...

Cool looking tree - these usually bounce back well as long as you take the work slow. I'd drop it in the ground exactly like it is. It may put on a strong flush next spring but don't let that fool you in to thinking it is ready for more work. Give a full year to recover. Most people think these...

Very interesting tree. Was the jin a purposeful addition or a natural loss of a branch? I find the lower-most branch of the dead section distracting. Far too angular amongst all the other branches, in my opinion.

This is the best. The facial expression says it all :D

These make great winter silhouette trees, if they flower and get berries that stay through leaf drop. One thing you can try that has worked for me is: leave the branches longer than you think. In some cases I only remove the terminal bud of last years growth but this seems to encourage them to...