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Hi Sergio, Welcome to the world of eastern white cedar... it is a beautiful yet often scary and frustrating place :) The shari on the branches is really next level... a testament to Suthin's professionalism. I'm looking forward to seeing your work on this tree. As a side note, I'm actually...

I consider taking clear and regular pictures of your trees to be an extremely important part of bonsai. But it can be a pain sometimes. I am not a good photographer and I have some large trees, so I've been taking a practical approach lately. I just hang an inexpensive retractable projector...

Less than a week until the trip to Rochester! Trees are getting prepped....

Good to know as we are in a similar climate. I have one maple in development that has been growing in pure soft akadama for two years. It seems to be loving it.

Hi Sergio, I'm sure you've said this elsewhere but which specific type of akadama do you use straight? Exclusively the hard variety? Or do you find it even makes a difference?

Very nice, absolutely love the pot.

A big factor is how old are these larches and what soil type are you collecting from? If you are collecting non-ancient larches from bogs, fall collecting is known to be effective. Lenz advocates it but largely for practical reasons i.e. lower water table. If you are collecting very old...

I don't think the Kennett sale should ever be compared to the normal north american market. Something like that will probably never happen again. Peter Warren said right before the door opened, (I paraphrase): "Many of these trees are the price of the pot they sit in. Many could theoretically be...

Yes thank you Vin. Good eye, since this picture I've bent the left jin so it points to the right, and I plan to completely remove the jin on the right. It still needs a decent amount of work. Cheers

This one looks to have handled collection very well. I like the timeline you have planned for the tree. No need to rush things with these cedars. Congratulations! It is a great piece of material. One of the best non-Canadian collected thuja I've seen!

Good idea for a thread... missed it when it started last year. I have about 60 trees in total. Probably around 25 of them can be considered bonsai. Three of my Top Trees (in no particular order) 1. What is the tree and who made it's pot? Thuja occidentalis in a chinese production pot 2. How...

I think a lot of it depends on the species and it's level if development. For example, I only fertilize my more refined larches in the fall. They don't get any fertilizer from me otherwise throughout the year. The fall fert strengthens them up for the winter so they will bud out nicely in the...

I was not super convinced by this article. I would bet the revival of the juniper was mostly due to the repotting. And I would be more impressed to see results on collected conifers. Hawthorns (same family as apple) and maples are notoriously easy to root.

Haha no. I keep meaning to go out and collect just potentilla, but I always get distracted by the cedars and larches. :)

Does yours have an expiration date? I bought mine in like March 2016 and the expiration was July 2016.

I bought a bottle this winter to try on my collected stuff. I was hoping it would help increase my larch survival rate. Very old weak larches are extremely difficult to collect successfully, at least from the unique ecosystem I collect them from (not bogs). Survival seems to be random...

Amazing result from seed. Great job!

I've been developing this "chi-chi" ginkgo since 2009. Matt Ouwinga is confident that it probably started as an air layer in Japan. Apparently a common way of producing ginkgo stock. One of the earlier pics I have of it...

Yes, this is the larch: http://www.bonsainut.com/threads/chuhin-tamarack-from-this-spring.23712/ Title is a bit of a gaff, the tree is actually a kifu. Hard size to show, it will get lost in Rochester. To help with that, I had a taller stand made. I do remember the last minute repot. That...

Sorry to hear about this Sergio. I was looking forward to seeing this tree in person. Fingers crossed a miracle happens and it'll turn up in Rochester! I guess getting a tree ready for show is sometimes about pushing limits. I fully defoliated the larch I am showing - never done a full larch...

Nice to see your collection - you've been busy! I still maintain that, if your cedar was mine, I would try to imitate the style of this cedar. I really think it is a brilliant solution for the naturally slanting cedars that we so often come across in the wild. I'm not sure which front of your...

This is a nice tree! I would be concerned about the random dieback it is experiencing. I don't have any needle junipers, but my understanding is they are a stable species so die back may be indicative of a root problem. Just my thoughts. Of course the health of the tree is paramount. Thanks for...

I've hypothesized but I'm really not convinced that the frequent repotting is the solution. Maybe it helps, but it definitely is not the cure. I've been repotting this shohin Siberian every year for 4-5 years and this year it had pretty bad dieback. Don't worry about stressing the tree, they...

I've never given mine protection and it gets pretty cold around here. Although there might be something there. I think its just the nature of the tree, being a pioneer species. Not sure how much can be done about that. Maybe grafting?

I love hearing the history of old bonsai, so I thought you guys might as well. This tree was collected ca. 1995 by John Biel in preparation for the IBC '97 convention in Toronto. Dozens of cedars and larches were collected to be used as workshop material for that event, and afterwards they...