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  1. Saizan

    Moss Air Layers

    I use a cheese grater* with the sphagnum moss block before using it. The fragmentation does not affect at the moss properties, but it's easier to separate from roots.
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    Japanese maples for sale

    Beautiful trees! Is possible to see the Seigen maple with leaves? Thank you in advance.
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    10B Japanese Maple: More Hitch in Her Giddyup?

    Maybe you can try a bridge graft to help healing the big wound, with the plus of adding a branch in one side. There's an example on a trident maple grew from seed, two growing seasons between pictures.
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    Bald Cypress seed experiences?!

    Some years ago I bought some BC seeds, stratified 3 months and put in some recycled substrate. 80% of germination, very easy to do...
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    First steps of two collected olives

    EDIT: Thanks for the message and the reminder! More than a year without an update :rolleyes: During summer 2016 olives where fed with lots of water, biogold and sun. Little one on october Medium one in october Olives are easy to get dense (branching), even without a special care. About...
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    Digging urban needle juniper

    Good luck! Find this in your property is like a Christmas present!
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    Inventory Reduction Sale & Penny Start Auctions

    This is the typical thread that I visit occasionally, and always think: "Ouh shit". Great offers, I wish someone offer same thing here in Europe. BTW, sorry for the offtopic.
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    Japanese White Pine Seed Germination Technique

    I tried 2 times to germinate JWP without success too. I made artificial stratification in the fridge, usually with medium - high germination rate (different species of maples, Prunus, Ginkgo, Juniperus, Taxodium). But never get one germination of Pinus parviflora. In my case natural...
  9. Saizan

    TP Shohin Japanese Black Pine Attempt #1

    Sorry for the offtopic, but this time (fall-near winter) is good to remove big sacrifice branches on pines? I red a lot of mixed opinions about this...
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    Help please - List 5 trees native to your area [ say 50 miles ] usable for Bonsai

    Sorry for reply myself, but here are the pictures: Pinus halepensis from seed. @Eric Schrader inspiration about neagari pines (if you already close your eyes, maybe you'll finde some resemblances) Wild olive, yamadori from two years ago. Juniperus oxycedrus, our native needle juniper...
  11. Saizan

    pyracantha"red elf

    If you put this in a pot, you would have a nice mame very easy EDIT: I mean, branch from the last picture...
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    Help please - List 5 trees native to your area [ say 50 miles ] usable for Bonsai

    @Starfox was faster than me, so sorry if I repeat some species. Maybe some were cultivated centuries ago and gone wild, maybe were wild and became cultivated, who knows... - Pines: aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) and Stone pine (Pinus pinea) - Olives (Olea europaea): lots of cultivated ones, but...
  13. Saizan

    A Couple afghan pines

    At first sight is quite similar to aleppo pine, Pinus halepensis. It seems to have similar features to that species, so it could be a great choose to bonsai, but there's less information than japanese pines.
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    Urban Pine (Stone Pine?) or What the Hell was I thinking?

    Seems more a P. pinea than a P. halepensis. Stone pine has red bark, hard needles of deep green and more erected grown, and aleppo pine has more white bark, flexible and thin needles of more light green, growing more like a bush. In the above paragraph I'm always talking of nature specimens in...
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    Is this JBP worth the investment?

    Maybe late, but IMHO buy it without doubts!
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    Damb, thats a big bug!

    Pro: you can talk with someone while wiring. Cons: take care if you have children or maybe they will be eaten by the spider.
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    Any cyclists here?

    I have both mountain and road bikes, riding from 14 to ... uhm, more than 20 years :D You just describe my road ideal bike. Its history remind me my (short) love with a Kona Coiler :rolleyes:,
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    The Royal Ficus

    IMHO, even being a bit much crowded, it is an outstanding tree!
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    Growing some tridents from seed.

    Whoa! Perfect explanation! Nice projects to work with!
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    Growing some tridents from seed.

    Just a question, sorry if it's replicated or offtopic. To make multi-trunk, you just put two (three, four...) seedlings through the hole of a plate? With growing, they just fuse and layer like the single ones? Thank you in advance!
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    3y Field grown tridents-help needed

    That's massive growing for 20 months! I don't know how is your water there, but if it's similar to mediterranean part of Spain (quite hard and full of CaCO3), this type of water incresases the probabilities of iron deficiences. I had the same problem with tridents, and solucionated adding iron...
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    Ground Growing Stock

    Nice lines on the baldies! Quite different of the typical style that are design.
  23. Saizan

    Eight Year Progression On A Shohin

    :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: Impressive evolution!
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    Aleppo Pine

    The problem with aleppo pines is that ramify very well, so you have a lot of branches to choose. That is no a real problem, but sometimes you need to make a big branch selection. About copper vs alu wire, I use aluminum and I prefer it, since you can correct a bad wiring and is cheaper than...
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    Oh Shimpaku Shimpaku what shall we do?

    +1 to make shari
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