Recent content by Shay

Thank you. It's a lot of fun... If you have patience for bonsai, you can definitely do pottery (:

Thanks!

Update. New pot made by me... Cheers, Shay

Update. New pot made by me... Cheers, Shay

Hi, Looking for fresh Korean hornbeam seeds to buy. Also willing to trade with Mikawa JBP seeds from Japan. Thanks! Shay

I successfully layered a large cork oak. it took 2 years and I opened the callus as well as applied hormone several times.

as far as I understand, new growth starts juvenile and mature needles come afterwords.it goes compleatly juvenile if cut back heard and with heard pruning 2-3 times a year you build the initial structure. its very stressfull for the tree but they are very strong and can take this abuse if they...

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These are my teacher's trees (Ofer Grunwald). (His article is in the link above some ware...) Both with fully mature needles and well ramified in 2-3 years. The mature needles are assential to hormone control and should not be removed completely. His method is basically pushing the trees to the...

Thank you for your answer. So if I have seedlings, not genetically identical, but still tridents, I can use them without worry of color/bark mismatch? Last year I have collected seeds from tridents in Jerusalem and have grown ruffly 300 seedlings this year... (:

Hi Judy, I love your piglet... I wanted to ask, are you using cuttings from the same tree for the root grafting? I am asking because I have Trident seedlings and a large Trident that needs root grafting. For some reason all my cuttings from this one failed. I would hate to miss a year for...

Hello, I have some conclusions: 1. The germination percentage was low due to old seeds (last season leftovers) 2. From the ones that germinated, a lot of them died after a couple of weeks. Their tap root was short and in poor health. 3. When I examined the roots of the surviving ones, I saw a...

Hi, I don't know if the branch placement is right for this, but I am seeing an interesting tree in this angle with another twist forward... Just a thought.

Oak acorns were how I got the idea. Wanted to see the affect on a JBP as well. I guess we will have to see...

Hello all, I had a fascinating experience with a few oak acorns I planted this season that gave me an idea. I planted the acorns in a colander and at that time had a small amount of soil. so they were planted very shallow (about half an inch deep overall). I figured I'll transplant them once...