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Check out Jonas Dupuich's blog! BonsaiTonight..com He specializes in Japanese pines. He also has many blogs focused on development of pines anywhere from seedlings. to root and trunk development, to fine wiring. His instruction and insight are outstanding, and his photography is top tier.

It will help people give you better advice if you add your location and zone in your profile. But here are some general points. Freshly repotted trees drink a little less water, so be careful not to over water. You don’t want recovering roots to stay wet for too long. Water the tree when the...

Pictures needed if you want real advice.

It absolutely needs to be outside. If you keep it indoors, I promise you it will die.

The wires that are biting and are being removed now, are they the same wires you and Bjorn placed back in spring 2015?

I'd gladly take some of that burden of your hands if you'd like! I don't live too far from OC;)

Thanks!;) Hopefully the market will be absolutely flooded by the thousands of trees given away or sold by contestants here! When I first started out, I stayed away from pines altogether because I felt I lacked the knowledge and skills to provide care and attention to pines as bonsai. I had...

2018 HERE WE COME!! JBPs from seed coming soon!!

Challenge Accepted!!! Total N00b here btw:D I'm not sure if anyone has asked about this in the thread yet, sorry I'm too lazy to scroll all the way through, but I think it would be awesome if some of the veteran growers out there threw out some advice for the JBP first timers like me!! This...

Gotta find me a kotohime! That thing looks like it's on fire!! Super cool

Nearly all of the seedlings I collected last spring have survived. Sadly the one in my avatar died midsummer. But these didn't... These are the ones I plan to give away at next club meeting.

I highly recommend this course!! Just finished watching the last lesson last night. Very informative on plant physiology taylored specifically for bonsai practice. This course answers almost every question a begginner might have. I really wish there was something like this when I first started...

I would research as much about juniper styling and care as you can before even thinking about digging. Check out Ryan Neil and Bjorn Bjornholm on YouTube. They have done some exceptional work on world class junipers. And they have a lot of important information for begginers. Also browse this...

Ever had any problems shipping to California?

I was away for two weeks helping with the floods and came back to most of my deciduous' buds bursting and this trident fully awake! Luckily CA weather has been more wet than cold. Temps have only went below 30F a handful of times in my city.

How cold is too cold for tridents whose buds have open?

Junipers may turn brown in winter but they don't go fully dormant like deciduous trees. So you can fertilize year round. I use Cottonseed or rapeseed cakes and apply folliar feed biweekly.

Junipers love folliar feed! I have no experience with miracle grow though. I use fish emulsion because it's absorbed fast by folliage, and breaks down slow in the soil, thus protecting delicate new roots (sometimes chemical ferts can damage new roots). Side note: roots, nebari and trunk base are...

I have a question since this thread is on Amurs and I have none. Will it do well in California? It almost never drops below 35'F here.

I'm not well versed on Amur maple, but maybe when it's pushed a few more pairs of leaves and they've hardened up, they can go outside for some sunlight.

Many people new to bonsai make the mistake of wanting to turn their tree into a "Bonsai tree" immediately. Not realizing that the tree is nowhere near ready the be styled. Most of these people ignore the advice they get on forums because the advice is usually to let it grow a couple years and...

Make damn sure that it's healthy! Loads of fresh green growth all over and a well developed rootball should be established before any aggressive styling. With junipers the strength comes from the folliage. Removing any folliage now would be detrimental. Good luck!

Sounds to me like you should do some more research. Find some bonsai books, and join a local bonsai club. Growing seeds is a good start but very boring work as all you will be doing for the next 5 to 10 years is watering. Also you will not be able to grow maples indoors. Good luck!

This plant does not look healthy enough to reduce the rootball by 2/3. Also maybe a coarser soil mix.

No need to shout dude.. Do you not believe in bare rooting or something?