Recent content by tstrum

No, unfortunately it died shortly after. While it’s unfortunate that it happened to such an amazing tree, the lessons learned were invaluable and the mistakes have not been repeated. All my trees are happy and healthy since. Yes I still have them. We traded for them, he got some junipers in...

Thanks guys! So to grow it out: the trunk is about 1.5" and its in a 1 gallon pot. What's the correct size grow box? Is 14"x14"x5" ok or should I go up gradually? If its on the ground, does it need to be soil directly under it or can it just sit on the grass?

I got this Japanese Apricot this summer. It is currently in potting soil. I wanted to get some design input. I have a few pics of the front. At the moment the tree is a straight stick from all other angles. I am contemplating a trunk chop after it flowers. I have drawn a low quality virt of what...

Coming* , not cloning haha

Thank you guys for the responses! This helps a lot! @sorce - I live in Oklahoma and our weather is crazy volitile and being new to bonsai I am trying to understand better what species will do well in my area and zone hardiness has its limitations in telling me what will/won’t do well in my...

when trying to calculate or gage chill hours for trees, is it continuous hours below 45F or any hour below counts? We’ve been having nights in the low 30s but up in the low 60s during the day. Do those hours at night count towards chill hours or does it have to stay below for it to count?

It also seems like it could be the same thing: winter pruning and early spring pruning as there isn’t really much foliar activity and minimal vascular activity taking place in between the two points in time. But that logic could be off too haha I’m a bit lost

On the Mirai live seasonal videos, Ryan prunes a Linden in the spring fundamentals video and in the winter preparation video he pruned another deciduous tree in basically the same manner (ie both deciduous are in the development stage so the goal is improving branching and ramification. He is...

This weekend we are supposed to get a light freeze (32 is the min expected). From what I’ve read, if I understood correctly, it’s good for my trees to experience a few light freezes early on to help increase their cold hardiness through the winter. Is that accurate? Last year (first winter...

So I just bought a 5 gallon pistache with decent movement at the base and good looking root flare. I got on bnut to see if anyone else had tried a trunk chop and only found this old thread. I was wondering how your chop went Mic E?

Hello, This year I have been using homemade fertilizer. I have really liked it and it has worked well. Plus it is so much more cost effective. I am wondering though, how to calculate the npk of homemade fertilizers. The ingredients each have their own npk on the labels, but when mixed I don't...

I doubt I would use the chat function. I am too new to have many questions, I am really just trying to absorb all the content. But when I am watching archived videos, I can see the terciary content but am not allowed to watch it. Some of the videos that are exclusive to tier 3 do look extremely...

I'm considering making the switch to plastic trees, anything living that I get tend to die haha

I've learned how hard it is to keep my trees happy and vigorous. And that until I can, all techniques and styling are irrelevant. I must adapt to the trees and not the other way around. I must learn to act on "tree" time and not my frantic running around time perception. Unfortunately, I think...

Yeah sorry, poorly worded. Not receiving "from" what's pruned, I meant the energy is now sent to the remaining branches. The auxin stops suppressing and the energy now moves more towards the interior branches. Just poorly worded, sorry to confuse