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My collected spruce, which I have for 22 months now, isn’t behaving like any other spruce trees I own. Last summer it produced a number of new buds (multiple dozens) but almost none of them grew out and the few that did put out a few (3-7) needles that are millimetres long. A few buds that...

I was out walking and I came across this tree flowering last Sunday. Can anyone identify it? I am hoping it’s an ume, but it doesn’t look like it to me. We are have normal weather so I doubt it is a really early bloom for the tree.

I finally got the wherewithal to fully wire a tree. It’s a pretty crappy job in my opinion. I did learn so much though. By doing the whole tree I realize that the best way to learn is to do the whole tree rather then just bits an pieces like I have done previously. I can see an improvement in my...

I have quite a few trees that I am growing primary branches on and a few I have started the secondary on. I am wondering what the guidelines for branch sizing should be for each stage in relation to the previous stage is. Does the aspect ratio of the tree make a difference? Does the primary...

I wired this trunk while still on the parent tree and removed it about three years ago. I’ve had it at a friends the whole time and missed repotting it every year. I’ll repot it next spring. This fall I want to cut it back to the primary branches and grow the leader out to thicken the top...

So I have this azeala and it has a straight taperless trunk, it’s 50% alive and the other 50% is not dead. I haven’t thread grafted anything onto it....yet. Can you make some drawings and pictures for? Pretty much lay out what should be done, but don’t ask for pictures, use your imagination and...

I have been looking at a lot of Oak Style brooms lately and am wondering what the Bnut community has to offer.

I have been fertilizing my airlayer that I can see roots on. It definitely doesn’t seem to be hurting the roots, but does it help? Anyone have any experience, good or bad?

I definitely made a few mistakes with the saw. Here is an airlayer that has a good set of roots growing I cut it back leaving a thick branch intended as the primary Nope, don’t think it will work. Yup, I wounded most of the branches and cut off a couple. Lesson learned, get a smaller, finer...

I have a 8-10’ crab apple I have been ground growing for two years. I want to dig it up next spring and do root work. Can I cut it back to the base now so it has the rest of the season to recover. Is it better to do both the chop and root work next spring? I’ll probably put it back into the...

I’m hoping someone here can help me identify this azalea. I have had them a year and a half. The previous owner doesn’t know either.

I was up north last week transporting an RV back to Vancouver and wanted to collect a few yamadori in various places along the back to test the conditions they were growing in for a future collecting excursion. I found one place that had some amazing trees. Dozens and dozens of trees worth...

There is a tree I have seen pictures of in Yellow Stone National Park or some other famous US Park that is probably six feet across, the top is broken off and it's pretty weather beaten. I wish I could find a picture of it. That is the tree I am going for here. The front from different...

My Father in law bought this lace leave Acer two years ago. This year the root stock pushed out new growth. Looked like a regular palmatum this spring. Then the leaves all turned upside down with leaf bottoms (now top) all pink. Can anyone help me understand what is going on? The root stock...

This spring I thought I would try an Ebihara technique and made my cuts backwards so instead of cutting off the top "stump" I put cut paste on just that side of the cut, leaving the much larger side of the tree au naturale. You can see how much strong the healing is on the smaller side...

I picked up one of my air layered Acer S. trees yesterday and brought it home so I could watch it closer so I could compare the growth to @wireme tree on this thread https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/sugar-maple-defoliated.20126/ I air layered last fall using live moss, put it in a grow box...

I am looking for a resource that describes in detail how each species should have a branch cut off to get a nice smooth heal over. It seems that each species has different needs on how to make a fast smooth heal on major cuts and then the particular situation warrants a variation such as a...

I am hoping this tree is eligible for the mame contest. I was going to wait to start a thread for this tree but I cant figure out how to send pictures in conversations here, so this is my work around. The story behind it is my cousin ran over this (now) little guy with a sit down lawn mower...

The leaves, or leaf has finally hardened off so I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The closest I've found is the Japanese stewartia. I bought a tree last fall because I could see where the tree might go, but mostly I bought it because of the bark. Not knowing...

April 16 2014 A friend was moving out of his condo and wanted to get rid of this juniper, The pot it was in was HUGE! It almost killed me getting it out of the car alone and repotting it. I sort of trimmed it a couple weeks later, mistake 1: sort of trimming it. I should have cut it back...

I have had this tree a year and a half. I repotted it last spring and took it to my club last month to get tips on how to style it. Did I ever. This is how it turned out. before: Today Once the wire is off, I'll start work on refining the jins. Any suggestions for a pot? I...

Is this bad? Ive never seen it before. When I rub it off it looks like it has been eating the bark. Do I burn the tree?

My Mom has been growing this tree for almost twenty year in the Yukon. She managed to get it to flower every year, the only Jade trees I have seen in bloom. Every year or so I would go up and prune it back because it would get too big for her and she was afraid of killing it. When she moved...

I bought this yew last fall with dozens of other trees. $20 I think. I started bare rooting it at 3:00 today and my wife was a little pissed that I didn't look close to being finished at six. I was supposed to make dinner. This was a mildly root bound tree. It was slow going, rake the roots...

I bought this yew last fall with dozens of other trees. $20 I think. I started bare rooting it at 3:00 today and my wife was a little pissed that I didn't look close to being finished at six. I was supposed to make dinner. This was a mildly root bound tree. It was slow going, rake the roots...