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    Dreaded Serissa

    gotcha, I was wondering how they would react to being divided.
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    The Fukien Trooper

    That jump with the wire was actually the only way I was able to redirect that branch. It's also a secondary wire. It's already wired normally but it wanted to wander, so did a crappy job at fabricating a secondary support. As for watering if I dont water it every 3 days it will drop every...
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    Dreaded Serissa

    I agree with the 3 seperate trees. However, My wife was pretty sure she wanted a group planting so I will do what i can to make it work. I took a little time last night to find an apex of the dominant tree, aswell as wire and reduce the height of the two others. I also wired the one off to...
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    Dreaded Serissa

    My wife and myself were perusing the local bonsai nursery and came across this little grouping starter. My wife fell in love and naturally I agreed to adopt the little guy. I've read many a horror story of this Serissa and I already warned here it may or may not survive. She would like me to...
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    The Fukien Trooper

    I don't post too often but I sure lurk enough, reading up and increasing my knowledge base. This is my 2nd tree I acquired while living in Vermont. there are two angles....its in the middle of a...out of control moment. it had a typical spiral shape, I've removed a good chunk from the top and...
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    My first in-depth styling

    its not my virt, username October made it because I was having trouble finding the direction I wanted to take the tree. here's another photo since its day out now. the second branch up on the right was originally growing out of the back of the tree away from the viewer. I decided to take...
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    My first in-depth styling

    the goal is to bring in the foiliage with that bottom branch so that I can remove the bend. this is a virt that October did on my other thread and is the general idea I'm trying to achieve. I'm not sold on completely removing the branch. I think it'll make it look....strange until the foiliage...
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    My first in-depth styling

    I had a post asking for opinions and I took what i gained from that post and did some work on my 14 year old "nana". I decided to go with a different front than what others saw but I feel like I did pretty well...considering this was my first real in depth wire job and I also repotted it. The...
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    Another year training this shohin azalea

    that is an absolute beauty of an azalea. How did you acquire this little one?
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    Terra Cotta pots

    His info says Florida, so my guess would be that he'd be fine.
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    Procumbens style help

    I'm not sure really what can be done wire wise for that bottom branch. if you straighten it out, it'll be really really long and far from the trunk. But there is a ..."sprig" of foiliage that comes out of the branch a little bit up from the main pad. If I cut it back I'll leave that bit of...
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    Procumbens style help

    there is a local nursery that sells bonsai for Wee Tree Nursery. I've already picked up a "summer wisteria" from there and a little chamacyparis from the nursery stock there....although my wife claims they are hers. I'm just helping as the tree nutritionist and care giver :).
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    Procumbens style help

    thanks lot for that visual, that is the style I would like to go for but was having difficulty visualizing it because of the strange bottom branch.
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    Procumbens style help

    I was considering doing as you said but I wasn't really sure how it would react to me cutting the branch back. Do they back bud pretty well in general? and how would you suggest i get the upper branches to backbud without risking losing them? I'm not sure if I understood your last question. I'm...
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    Procumbens style help

    Barry, you pretty much nailed it on the head with how I feel and see this tree. thanks a lot for putting it into words when I couldn't haha.
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    Procumbens style help

    I acquired this 14 year old procumbens almost a year ago from MillBrook Bonsai Nursery in Vermont. For a little while now I've been looking at it and feeling that something feels weird about this tree (this is the pot it was in at the nursery and I've been wanting to get it a new pot sometime...
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    Fukien styling

    it's an indoor tree as I live in an apartment now. and it's very moist and warm. :) And i understand it applies to all trees but I've read in other sources that these trees have a low tolerance to pruning. I just wanted to get some other opinions so I thank you for yours.
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    Fukien styling

    I acquired a Fukien last summer from a nursery I was working at. It has that standard "s" shape trunk all the way up and I was curious if anyone has any experience with this tree. I've read in multiple places that they don't like to be over pruned. Just curious if anyone can confirm this. last...
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    wisteria "hime fuji"

    thanks to the both of you for your response, I just wanted a confirmation on this information. And actually I no longer live in Vermont (I'll have to get to change that info :D) I'm now living in the williamette valley in Oregon so I'm now a proud resident of zone 8 (it's a dream compared to...
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    wisteria "hime fuji"

    I'm curious if anyone has any working knowledge of Millettia Japonica 'Hime Fuji' I picked one up from the local bonsai nursery and haven't found much info on them. I've read that they are rare to flower and some even said it's not a true wisteria. Either way it's an small attractive tree so if...
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    nursery holly repot and major pruning

    isn't that a boxood?
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    Procumbens disease

    I took the tree to the local bonsai nursery and the owner helped me go through disease books and this is what we came up with. phomopsis or kabatina blight. the black specks growing on the dead foliage is not good...:(
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    Procumbens disease

    I work at a green house so I'm quite familiar with spidermites and most of the pests out there, I'll try and grab a picture, the fruiting bodies are so small so I can't guarantee I'll get much of a photo.
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    Procumbens disease

    So for the past 2 months I've been watching my juniper slowly get duller and twigs beginning to go brown. I've looked at suspicious parts under a magnifying glass and I see what would look like phomopsis. The parts of the twigs that are newly dying are going brown, while closer to the interior...
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    Fusing Schefflera?

    I work for a garden center and I happened upon an outcast schefflera pot with three little guys in it. I was actually wondering the same thing, or if it's just a matter of aerial roots coming down and apearing as though the trunk is larger. I've read through fuku and I didn't see anything that...
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