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I got this Japanese Apricot this summer. It is currently in potting soil. I wanted to get some design input. I have a few pics of the front. At the moment the tree is a straight stick from all other angles. I am contemplating a trunk chop after it flowers. I have drawn a low quality virt of what...

when trying to calculate or gage chill hours for trees, is it continuous hours below 45F or any hour below counts? We’ve been having nights in the low 30s but up in the low 60s during the day. Do those hours at night count towards chill hours or does it have to stay below for it to count?

On the Mirai live seasonal videos, Ryan prunes a Linden in the spring fundamentals video and in the winter preparation video he pruned another deciduous tree in basically the same manner (ie both deciduous are in the development stage so the goal is improving branching and ramification. He is...

Hello, This year I have been using homemade fertilizer. I have really liked it and it has worked well. Plus it is so much more cost effective. I am wondering though, how to calculate the npk of homemade fertilizers. The ingredients each have their own npk on the labels, but when mixed I don't...

I've been watching the Mirai live videos but don't have tier 3 to ask questions. I am wondering about pinching on deciduous. In order to redirect energy from a strong tip that is growing out of proportion to the design, can you pinch the new shoot at the tip on a deciduous to redirect the energy...

Last year I planted a sapling Trident Maple in the ground to let it grow out. This is my first attempt at doing this so not sure the process. It was thinner than a pencil and about 8' tall when I planted it. Now its pushing 4' and about 1/4' thick maybe a bit more. In order to avoid have a...

This tree was given to me this weekend. I was told it had been collected 3 years ago and nothing done with it since. It was collected in Oklahoma from a field owned by a bonsai collector. So I don't know if it's native or if it was planted intentionally for the purpose of later being dug up. I...

Any ideas what this little guy is?

Buds broke early this year so I repotted about 2 weeks ago. Since then foliage was coming out nicely until about 3-5 days ago I started noticing some problems. I cant tell what it is though. We've had a few cold nights so I've been putting everything back in the greenhouse and putting them back...

Hey everyone! I have a JBP I acquired late last summer, its my first and only jbp so I am still learning. Its fairly tall, about 30" and the trunk is about 3" at the base but then is a static 1.5-2" all the way up. So it very much lacks taper. From what I know, there are only 2 options to...

I recently purchased a Washington Hawthorn from a bonsai nursery that had obtained the tree from an artist who passed away. The tree is quite impressive and well into it's development stage. But as this tree passes to me, I want to help it become the best tree it can be. In spending some time...

Besides a few random days of 20 degree weather, we are having a warm winter. Looking at the forecast we are projected to have 5 days in a row of highs above 50 degrees and lows between 30-40 degrees. I am concerned about my trees prematurely ending dormancy with more freezing weather likely...

Does the use of sacrifice branches directly correlate to trunk thickening in such a precise way as described in this Bonsai Empire video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa-cu9kkAFk I know that Bonsai Empire is a very reliable and highly respected source for bonsai education and by no means do...

I have had this JBP since early July, its my first JBP. It has been growing excellently since I got it, very vigorously. It hadn't been decandled this year, not sure if it had been ever to be honest. At the moment it is almost a bush with tons of needles everywhere that are all quite long. I say...

Hello, I have a few junipers that I would like to post on ebay to sell. But I have never shipped a tree before. Whats the best way to ship?

I recently acquired several junipers and am having trouble determining how to style them. I got them in March and they seem to be healthy and growing well. I have done only some basic clean up on them and have yet to do much in terms of styling them. I need some guidance as to how they should be...