The I Don't Care if Bonsai is Art, I Just Like the Trees Tread

Smoke

Ignore-Amus
Messages
11,668
Reaction score
20,724
Location
Fresno, CA
USDA Zone
9
So sorry Al. I'll continue to pray for you and your wife, but I know you'll both do just fine. Today, I was at the funeral for a young man not quite 16 years old who passed away suddenly this week. He was a friend of my son's from elementary school who took his own life. In the end, he was unable to realize just how precious his life truly was. Anyway, despite reading the update on your wife's condition after coming home from the funeral, I can't help but smile... you and your wife get it and aren't going to waste a minute not living life the way it was meant to be lived, and I'm looking forward to the next installment here at B'nut:).
I just read through the last page or 2.



@Dav4 Thats a sad story about that young man. Such a waste.

Yes suicide seems like such a waste, but then there are people with huge depression and that is also tragic.
 

Mellow Mullet

Masterpiece
Messages
3,967
Reaction score
11,229
Location
Mobile, Alabama-The Heart of Dixie
USDA Zone
8-9
Oh oh, something I really hate on the other side... fake realistic plants. What's the point? What's the value of looking at a plastic plant and saying how beautiful it is? Zero.

Post them so we can evaluate, maybe you could use one to make a resoanble facsimile of a bonsai and keep it "alive". Post it, too. Or maybe just read the seccond, third, and fourth words in the title of this post. As you may have read, this thread is about REAL trees, and, more recently, Smoke and his wife, which is OK by me, Smoke is an icon here and to me.

Plastic plants, ass hattery...
 

StoneCloud

Omono
Messages
1,314
Reaction score
1,917
Location
North Carolina
USDA Zone
7b
Here is a Duranta I've been beating around. Saved it from our landscape it went through every pest and hospitable condition. I like Duranta's they will take a licking. It's hard to kill this suckers! They also bud everywhere, so every 2-3 I'm snippin' leaves off.
Anyway,

March 3 2017
20170303_114550.jpg


April 29, 2017

Should this be the front?????????????
20170429_191941.jpg

Or should this be the front???????
20170429_185444.jpg
 

petegreg

Masterpiece
Messages
2,781
Reaction score
4,079
Location
Slovakia
USDA Zone
6a
Here is a Duranta I've been beating around. Saved it from our landscape it went through every pest and hospitable condition. I like Duranta's they will take a licking. It's hard to kill this suckers! They also bud everywhere, so every 2-3 I'm snippin' leaves off.
Anyway,

March 3 2017
View attachment 143385


April 29, 2017

Should this be the front?????????????
View attachment 143386

Or should this be the front???????
View attachment 143387
Durantas are cool crazy growers, even indoors.
...mother plant...growing on the W-facing window sill
2017_0430_09585100.jpg

...and doughter, the window facing north.
The sacrifice branch has been growing since last Christmas, outgrowing the mother plant...
2017_0430_09560800.jpg
...:)complying with the thread...I don't care your front, choose the best, with best nebari, trunk movement and the top leaning towards viewer. The species buds back very well. But I have never seen mine flowering, maybe too young, maybe pruning or indoor environment.
 

petegreg

Masterpiece
Messages
2,781
Reaction score
4,079
Location
Slovakia
USDA Zone
6a
Is that branch really coming off that tree and. Traveling up. The. Window?

Not that I care.....

Cool!

Sorce
Thanks, really, from the back side in the middle of the trunk height.
 

petegreg

Masterpiece
Messages
2,781
Reaction score
4,079
Location
Slovakia
USDA Zone
6a
View attachment 143385


April 29, 2017

Should this be the front?????????????
View attachment 143386

Or should this be the front???????
View attachment 143387
I'd like to go back here hoping you didn't take my IDC reaction nasty. It should have sounded funny.
Actually I personally like the last picture. But...as tree grows it can give us much more and much clearer choices. We can get new buds and branches, some roots grow stronger than others changing the dimensions of nebari different way than expected. Many times are fronts changed in a tree development. And sometimes the pictures posted in order to get advice are not right the best views of a tree and there can always be something in between. (Not saying it's your case)
 

sorce

Nonsense Rascal
Messages
32,908
Reaction score
45,579
Location
Berwyn, Il
USDA Zone
6.2
Wire it!!!

Steve....

I realized 2 things today.

1. If you take the Himpau out of Shimpaku, you get SK!

2. I can't wire It yet!

I can't stop thinking about Vance repotting these in summer....

And I really want to get that done as healthy as possible so I can uncross them roots.

Thanks for your support!
You got me thinking!

Sorce
 

JudyB

Queen of the Nuts
Messages
13,751
Reaction score
23,250
Location
South East of Cols. OH
USDA Zone
6a
Yeah, I didn't know it at the time but I think I got the little brother to yours. Maybe he built them at the same time? I haven't seen him use this glaze in any other pots.
I saw that shape of his online, and asked him to build the pot for me, he may have made several of them. It is a unique looking pot, so cool to see another.
 

JudyB

Queen of the Nuts
Messages
13,751
Reaction score
23,250
Location
South East of Cols. OH
USDA Zone
6a
Dear Al and your beautiful wife, I hope that if and when I ever get such news, that I can face it with the grace and strength that you both have shown. I know you'll keep fighting and hope you win. But the best thing is just to get as much life into every minute that you can, and I know you do. You both know where the important stuff is.
 

thomas22

Chumono
Messages
615
Reaction score
1,744
Location
Southern California
USDA Zone
10
Here is a Duranta I've been beating around. Saved it from our landscape it went through every pest and hospitable condition. I like Duranta's they will take a licking. It's hard to kill this suckers! They also bud everywhere, so every 2-3 I'm snippin' leaves off.
Anyway,

I like me some Duranta also. I took this picture last night. They definitely are durable. I repotted this one from a 5 gallon nursery container straight into this pot last September and it hasn't skipped a beat. Some of the branches are a little long because they are going to flower and I didn't want to cut them off.
2017-04-29 22.03.07.jpg
 

StoneCloud

Omono
Messages
1,314
Reaction score
1,917
Location
North Carolina
USDA Zone
7b
@petegreg No offense taken at all, totally knew what you meant!!! You know right now it's so early in it's development I don't care which is the front yet.....mostly because right now it has a few good views and I also have to work that knob from the chop out ( I didn't have time yesterday to finish).

Mine has not flowered yet either by the way and I've had it through a full season now.

I really like the way you defoliated that sacrafice branch then let it grow up at the top. Makes it look likes its not part of the tree, genius!!!

@thomas22

Your's is an F'in awesome job I have to tell you. I saw the thread with the contest with your tree. You got it very well developed in super short time. kudos!!!!

I'm hoping mine hits that pace. I'm keeping it in the big pot for now b/c to let it thicken up.

The bark on them becomes lovely. But when watering I try not to wet the trunk too often it starts to flake away and kill the taper.
 

Steve Kudela

Shohin
Messages
457
Reaction score
801
Location
southwest Georgia
USDA Zone
8
Steve....

I realized 2 things today.

1. If you take the Himpau out of Shimpaku, you get SK!

2. I can't wire It yet!

I can't stop thinking about Vance repotting these in summer....

And I really want to get that done as healthy as possible so I can uncross them roots.

Thanks for your support!
You got me thinking!

Sorce
LOLOL.............Well I have been wondering how long it was gonna take for folks to realize that! Only you dude!!!..................................Oh and now I see that it's actually Nonsense Rascal Fibber!....."somebody just say the word and I'll do it............." I can't wire it yet ", Another LOL. Just joking buddy....................... It is always best to concentrate on tree health first and in my opinion it almost never hurts to wait for wiring and shaping. And I think that climate plays a big part and would say that up in your area that summer repotting may well be the way to go. And I'm certain that if Vance recommends it, he's done it and it works. The northern climate is a different game than down here. It's been near 90 for the last couple of days and yet I saw earlier where some parts of the country are getting snow. Having said that, I do remember taking up an old procumbens on a 100 degree day in August......never knew that it had been touched. Your tree appears to be a good one , so yeah take your time with it. It's only going to get better with good health. Good eye!....Don't think too much, it only leads to headaches, yuk, yuk! Himpau!!!.............................On a different note, Smoke I'll join the others in sending up prayers for you and Ms Smoke. The best to ya'll from down south!
 
Top Bottom