Recent content by yenling83

Super bummed I couldn’t make it to the 2025 US National and NA Bonsai Pottery Competition this year. I sure would love to see who won prizes along with pics of the winning Trees and Pots, thanks!

Personally I use both Bio-Gold and Osmocote. I only use a tiny amount of Osmocote and a lot of bio gold. I also use a few different liquid fertilizers. You def don't need to just stick w/ one.

My best guess is that the one's in perlite are getting under watered. That mix will dry out much much faster than the potting soil mix. Also, the particle size is quite large for that size of a plant. I'd use a much finer particle size for the little guys you have here. You would need to...

I'm glad you brought that interesting point up. I've seen a few that made me think they were Yamadori, including this tree below(stock photo, not mine), one in Andrew Robson of Rakuyo's collection and one from John Thompson. But, I don't know if they are actually collected or not. I'm...

Very true they do grow so slow. It's fun to see Eric Schrader's Valley Oak from Acorn, but they took a long time!

My first guess is a Hedge maple-Acer Campestre but I could definitely be wrong.

Eric Shrader has grown the best Valley Oak i've seen from Seed many years back. But yes, not too many of them in Bonsai and it's such a great species visually speaking. I have heard putting them in a Bonsai pot, they can be challenging from a horticultural perspective-but if they can grow...

Generally speaking, with really small cuts you can cut flush or concave, while larger cuts you'll want to leave some length, respecting and allowing the tree to die back to the branch collar, then coming back and re-addressing the cut once the branch has died back.

Issues like this will generally improve as your overall horticultural care increases. This could be from factors relating to light requirements, obtaining correct balance of water and oxygen, soil, water quality, nutrition, etc. These areas we can all continue to improve in and is part of the...

Silver Berry after defoliation

Oh awesome! I was pumped that he used a pic of one of my Sierra Junipers in that book. Have you check out his newest book-The Essential Bonsai Book? I think it’s even better!

Three solid options for the OP

I like to support BonsaiTonight.com for Kaneshin Tools. Jonas the owner is an all around top notch guy who's life mission seems to be improving the North American Bonsai Scene. He also has great prices, an easy to use website and is insanely reputable.

Three cheers for Bob for being the backbone in providing this opportunity to the community year after year!

Great work on the molds. A few years back there was a gentleman who made many beautiful concrete pots. Fast forward to now and almost all those pots broke:( I'm sure there's a mixture where you could get it right. I'm curious, have you checked out Richard Kearney's work? He's on...