Recent content by Recoil Rob

Late to the party... My golden mop has become much to leggy, it never seems to back bud. Any advice? thanks, Rob

I started this plant from a cutting about 4-5 years ago and now it's time to re-pot. The tree is healthy. My primary concern is to preserve the upright half on the left in the image, this will be a good plant to keep working on. However, I thought it might be possible to split it in two (see...

will watch the ficus AND boxwoods are in an unheated porch here in NY. Ficus are inside under lights.

OK, thanks. Will watch ficus and boxwoods are in an unheated porch here in NY.

Thanks for doing this, put me in. Being a former amateur potter I know how hard it is to go through the entire process and hope your vision for a piece is what close to what comes out of the kiln. Maybe some day I'll be an amateur potter again!

I have moved the boxwwods out to the unheated porch but I still have a question about the ficus, they have some lower leaves turning yellow and dropping, the new growth up top, closest to the light seems good. They have to stay inside under the lights so any ideas what this could be? They are a...

In past years I had it on the porch but it did not seem to do well, I was hoping to get some growth over the winter under the lights but perhaps I am think this wrong. It will get some light on the sun porch and be protected from wind. If it looks like temps will go down belwo 20 I can bring it...

I have an unheated sun porch attached to the house but temps in there can get below 30˚ on real cold days. Better off there? If so do I need to transition slowly?

OK, thanks!

This is a small boxwood, about 10 in tall. For the last 2 years it's been battling boxwood blight here in southern NY but this summer I felt it had turned a corner. I repotted and had been pruning off dead leaves and the new growth was slow but steady. It has 3-4 chips of BioGold on the soil...

Springs coming here in the northeastern US and I need to jump in and start pruning a Siberian Elm and a Boxwood. While searching for some basic rules I found this which seems concise (the three books I have seem to spread the info out all over), are they viable rules to start with?

I'm in NY, 6B. I have the Kanuma already, just wondering if I should mix it or use it straight. Yes, it is one of those small, pencil necked azalea's but I'm trying to do nice for a friend who doesn't care to wait 3-5 years and about what actually makes a good bonsai. Actually not that skinny...

Noob here. A friend got a small azalea from 1800FLOWERS as a gift, looks to be in a compost mix and doing ok but I'll be doing my first repot of any type on it and have read Kanuma is the way to go for long term Azalea bonsai. I have obtained some 5mm Kanuma, is it used alone or should I mix...

Pictures.....starts at an edge and works it way to the stem.