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Phew today it was the turn to repot my biggest tree, a Japanese Maple (var. Sangokaku) in a multitrunk style. The raw material came from a nursery and graft was an eyesore so I decided to air layered 8 years ago. The first try was a failure (also my first airlayer) so in the next year I tried...

Photo of my shohin Ash Tree leafing out. The compounded leaves look wonderful at this stage. I feel like the photo don’t do justice and in my opinion is an underrated specie.

Bonus post! Another alder prebonsai I’ve been developing since a pencil size seedling 6 years ago. On the design I’m not sure what to do though. Trunk is quite straight and flavorless haha and the only salvable thing is the nebari. Time will answer me.

Today I did a repot on a English Oak (Querqus Robur) yamadori. 4 years from the ground and now that is well established I put it in his ceramic pot. Tons of fine roots! I want to grow the left trunk and make a slightly taller apex.

I got to play with this A. Burgerianum after eating lunch. I had 30 min to do the repot so the stakes were high haha. This is a little maple root over rock from seed 7 years ago. Root placement was messy in the beginnings and now there are a few gaps between the rock and roots. Not ideal The...

Milk??

And this hawthorn has a lot of potential. Almost 20cm trunk thickness with great movement that divides into two trunks. You could go for an expansive canopy mimicking a ancient oak. I’m afraid of kill it to begin with so I don’t know if some day I will pull it out.

And this raft too!

I forgot about this Hawthorn yamadori I’m preparing 🥲🥲 It’s too late

I hate when this happens to simple training pots… I can’t imagine.

Good afternoon guys! Since winter came back in Spain a lot of my trees stopped the bud swelling so repot season will continue in the future. Today I repotted a few seedlings of A. burgerianum. The root work was slaughter. All for the sake of good a foundation. Next year I will attach a wood...

Most I’ve expended is a measly 50€ for a Acer Palmatum Sangokaku material. Totally worth it 👍

I haven’t tried doing a leaf removal. Do you cut to two leaves the new flush of growth after the hardening and then remove those two?

Thank you for the compliment! Yeah it feels a little cluttered and should eliminate some branch. Sometimes also wonder if I should remove the first left branch because it’s too low but Im hesitant. Yeah the nebari has been worked out every repot like a maple and improved a lot but it has a...

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Today in the interval between work shifts I managed to cram a little repot that was necessary giving the new foliage already setting. It’s a little rose I made through an air layer because I want to make use of the white pot that was intended for a pomegranate shohin but died 3 years ago. I saw...

I’ve been an avid reader of this forum on the past but last years I rarely enter to read what’s new about others people bonsai journey. I’ve been doing bonsai on my own for almost 10 years educating myself through internet like this forum for example. I wanted to be more proactive and present in...

That’s the brand I use and in my experiencie it works pretty well. Recently I repotted a juniper that was 4 years with the same soil mix and my akadama granules were intact below first 1/2 inch of the surface.

This is another of my oaks (Quercus robur). I collected it 2 years ago and the buds are about to burst open. I’m still unsure on what to do with it. Do I want a larger tree growing the right trunk or go for a more compact one? 🤔 What are your thoughts on this? (In the next repot I will adress...

It’s an deciduous species? If it the case you could use the bag method to sweat the tree and preserve humidity. Even if it’s used mainly on hawthorns I readed that you can apply it to other deciduous. Someone correct me if I’m being wrong.

This is a lovely shohin of English Oak (Querqus robur). It’s starting to ramify pretty fine and last season the leaves were tiny, like 1,5 -2cm. (Sorry for the mess with the wiring 😅)

Do you intend in the future to make one of the trunks (left one or middle) a bit taller? I feel a little of height difference between the trunk would look good. Amazing job btw !

I have managed to successfully layer a Sango Kaku. The first attempt was a failure and I think it was for the moment chosen; almost at the beginning of summer. In the second attempt I did it 3 weeks after the buds sprout and I separated the air layer at the beginning of spring of the following...

I leave a video of how to force aerial roots. It's in Spanish so I'll summarize it. Before applying the technique recommends that if you don’t repot in a long time (and the pot is full of roots) the tree tend to emits more aerial roots. As for the technique, it is recommended to use the drill...

Nuclear power plants doesn't disturb the climate.... o_O You have to water more and recondition the soil.