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  1. BeebsBonsai

    Is Peter Adams JM book still up to date?

    I have this book. The first cover you posted. Its incredibly detailed and well illustrated with both hand drawn sketches for concepts and then photos for proof of concept. I agree with most posts here, the soils are outdated from a modern perspective. Thats not to say that they cant be used...
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    Browned tips on Procumbens Juniper Nana

    I'm just going to commit to building the bench and getting it installed this weekend. It;s been a hellish and busy moving process and I hate that my trees might have suffered.
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    Browned tips on Procumbens Juniper Nana

    Currently, the tree is on a concrete patio. I have just moved and have been trying to get some time to build my bench, but every time I have a free day, something else breaks or needs to be done. I think I should have it built this saturday. None of my other trees are exhibiting this symptom...
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    Browned tips on Procumbens Juniper Nana

    However, what I can say is, using that same calculations, I applied that systemic to all my trees, and none have seen ill effects from it. In fact, it has kept my pines incredibly healthy when last year, the wet, cold spring caused issues with needlecast even with the spraying of daconil.
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    Browned tips on Procumbens Juniper Nana

    To be honest, there isn't a prescribed amount for potted plants. They won't give that readily on their informational packets. I looked at the recommendad dosage and reduced that to the pot's dimensions, than divided that by 2, just to be safe. I want to say, if I remember right, I used about a...
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    Browned tips on Procumbens Juniper Nana

    Hey fellow Nuts, I hope everyone is doing well and for those of you in the U.S., I hope you had a fun and safe independence day. I am having a small problem with one of my junipers. It has been the strongest growing and most healthy Juniper in my small collection, and I am noticing some...
  7. BeebsBonsai

    Looking for small trees/cuttings/whips

    Hey all, Im looking to see if anyone has some small/younger trees or cuttings, rooted whips they would like to sell. Maybe you got more seeds to take than expected or the quantity of cuttings is too much to keep watering and you wouldnt mind selling them. I just moved and am strapped...
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    Black spots

    Yes, both upper and lower surfaces. Just make sure it doesnt drip. Hydrogen peroxide is completely safe for trees. Its basically free oxygen in liquid form for them. Only caution id have is to apply it in the evening so the baking sun doesnt cause the peroxide to bleach the leaves. It never...
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    Black spots

    If its a small pot, ( less than 6 inches round) use ony a teaspoon. If you dont want to measure that way, six pinches of the granules. Order of ops 1, pull off infected leaves (dont cut the branches), 2. Spray with hydrogen peroxide, 3. Bonide, 4. If bonide isnt working, one copper fungicide spray.
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    Black spots

    I dont want to fully alarm you, but ive had this same thing happen with two of my elms. Both times it was after a light pruning after the first flush hardened off. Both elms died as a result. It started at the tips and worked its way down to kill each branch. Heres why i say dont be fully...
  11. BeebsBonsai

    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    Will do. Will post pics of this little guy once he starts extending again. Thanks for all the help everyone. I hope the cutting I took of the portion I cut off takes as well. getting two trees from one as a beginner is always nice.
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    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    Papy, Note taken. And I do remember that post. I will keep you posted on how this little guy does post chop. Hopefully I see some movement in the next month. And strong movement.
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    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    Papy, Thanks much. I appreciate it. I get jumpy and nervous when I make moves like this. i tend to get scared that my work is going to harm the tree then do too much to compensate. I have only been doing this for a year and a half. I will post pics when the tree begins to extend. How long...
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    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    Papy, Yes, I did mean in the area, not exactly the cut, sorry that was a contextual error there. Bascially, what I had was a five foot tall straight twig with one set of branches coming off all the way at the top. Being a young tree, there were leaves all up and down the "trunk". I cut...
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    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    Well, I technically don't really have branching yet, so my goal is two-fold. 1.) begin the process of developing taper in this very young tree. And 2.) Get extension from a pair of lower shoots on the tree to get a sacrifice branch started low on the trunk, while also starting the first bit of...
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    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    Dav4, do you think a partial defoliation at this time is a good idea? Or let it grow? Also, so like a July trunk chop if I use this method in the future?
  17. BeebsBonsai

    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    This is good news to hear. Hopefully i have the same response. Unless I hear contrary opinions, I will leave it untouched and check it's progress over the next few weeks.
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    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    Just to follow up here with what I have hear that contradicts this is the worst time. The key here is the hardening off of the leaves. And again, I am not an expert either, just repeating what I have read, I believe here even, although I can't remember where. Anyway, the post-hardening...
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    Trunk Chop- Do I also Defoliate?

    Hello fellow Nuts, I performed a trunk chop on a small trident over the weekend. I know it is late in the season for this work, but we are having a cooler spell, with cloud cover for the remainder of the work week before we blast back into summer temps. I didn't get around to this...
  20. BeebsBonsai

    Dying tips on shimpaku

    Thanks Grimmy, I currently have this shimpaku in full sun, all day, with southwest exposure. My backyard is wide open and faces west. I will bring it to the only place I can think of that has those conditions, in the yard in the shadow of a larger tree, and let it grow. I am already...
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    Dying tips on shimpaku

    Thanks vance. I had this problem early this spring and tacked it up to some sunburn as we had an early hot spell. Im guessing its a water uptake issue in the roots? Im noticing some more languishing foliage and leggy growth now. Im assumig my tree is a bit weak.
  22. BeebsBonsai

    Japanese Maple ''Bonfire''

    Have you considered removing the branch third from the bottom on the left? It seems a bit thick compared to its surrounding counterparts. Like its crowding that space. Maybe its just the photo angle. Powerful tree. I love it.
  23. BeebsBonsai

    Repotting of Shimpaku (kishu variety)

    Hello fellow nuts, I have a shimpaku that i would like to repot, if i could, somtime this growing season. Is there another time outside of as the buds are breaking that i can repot safely. To better inform, this repot will not be extensive. Im actually just going to be scraping away some...
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    Potential Buds on White Pine Bonsai?

    I'll pick and squish and then give the trunk a good spray with my insecticidal soap. I have noticed some drooping candles and am now wondering if that is due to a reduced sap flow since these suckers are taking some of that away. Only a few droopers though. Strangest thing. Fully mature, not a...
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    Potential Buds on White Pine Bonsai?

    Insecticidal soap do the trick for the adelgid? The photos I found online looked similar.
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