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Unfortunately, I can’t find any photos. I built a shallow box with 2”x6” sided and treated plywood bottom with drilled drainage holes, filled with 1” of sand and then chicken wire with the cables winding back and forth with the few inch gap between. Then another layer of chicken wire on top...

In my experience, Portulacaria afra need bright light indoors to thrive. Likely more than you will get, unless you have big south facing windows. As previously mentioned, supplemental lighting will help. Full spectrum LED are great but can be jarring to look at in your living space. I have T5...

Depends on the goal. For post-repotting pines, I want the root zone temp at 70F with the cables. For the OP’s purpose of getting juniper cuttings growing, I’d probably run it around 60F into December and then back it down to 35-40F for 2 months and then back to 60F. But if it’s outdoors you...

I’ve used these Jump Start soil heating cables for early season pine repots and had good success. I use the Bayite thermometer controller, I think I saw it originally recommended by @JudyB. Cheers

Lucky! I'd love to have a chance to own some. I have some of his smaller shohin pots. I'd like larger pots of his for 2 of his twisted pomegranate pre-bonsai that I got in one of his later sales.

I think it might be variety dependent on the best practices. I've been trying to figure out the best winter olive setup for a couple years now since moving to a colder zone. They used to live outside where 42F was the coldest temp. Now we get sub-zero temps, so I've tried treating them like both...

That is a very interesting and cool stand for that weeping form!

Amazing transformation. Well done! It looks like it stayed in a bonsai pot during the crown development and I don’t see any obvious sacrifice branches. So was the thickening of the new apex just done by adding branches and needle mass or were there times of sacrifice branches extending from...

I found this strange egg case(?) on a pine branch. I turned it over and opened it up to find these white eggs(?). The tree has been attacked by pine tip moths this year, but they don’t look like the ‘net images for moth eggs. Any ideas?

If it was multiple escape roots from the pot, I don’t think you’ll find much usable thickness. You could dig them in the Spring and twist them together to train as an exposed root style. You’d probably have to airlayer any trunks that you left to develop on their own in the ground. The nebari...

Yes, aerial root. Young shoots will be light green and have leaf buds pretty early. There is no harm in removing it. They usually dry up indoors unless you have it in a humidity tent. They can be used in design, search “banyan bonsai” to see forms with aerial roots coming down from the canopy to...

If the Bonsai Pro is 7-9-5, you probably won’t see much difference with Miracle Gro 8-6-8. Some Bonsai Pro advertises macro/micro nutrients that regular Miracle Gro might not have. If the tree is sending out new growth, then you can fertilize in winter. Follow the labels, but you can also dilute...

I’d subscribe also. Along with preserving the current health and community of the site, the potential future members also need to be considered. How do you demonstrate value to attract and add new members in the future? Especially in the face of AI LLMs stealing traffic.

Are the lines in the slab? If not, how do you keep the waterline from freezing? As an aspiring greenhouse owner someday, I have lots of questions. How were the summer temps? Did you have to empty it or did the vents (or active ventilation) keep it cool.

My initial reaction on seeing the photo was to not like the vertical line of the scroll stopping the movement of my eye through the display. But staring at it more has me intrigued. I’m still not sure I like it.

Another wonderfully packaged shipment. This one is amazing in the sunlight! I wish my crappy phone camera could capture it.

General guidance is subtract a USDA hardiness zone for being in a container. But that’s mainly an above the soil line guidance. Root zones are considerably less hardy than their USDA zone min temps. Thus all the protection discussed in the previous posts when you don’t have trees planted...

Placement on the north side of a house in shade is ideal to prevent temperature swings in late winter that might bring them out of dormancy too early. It also provides a stable added warmth from the house and footing/basement wall against the ground. I used to dig down a 1-2’ to nestle the trees...

TDS can indicate salts. As he mentioned earlier, pH and alkalinity (hardness) are also important. Theoretically, the RO system should remove the sodium or potassium from a water softener. But you might want to test it. Rain barrels should be opaque to prevent algae growth and covered to keep...

Search F. benjamina on adamaskwhy.com he has many good articles. They will sometimes abandon pruned/defoliated branches that aren’t moving sap. I prune back to a leaf or leave a stipule and/or leaf at the end of branches during defoliation.

Escape roots into trays for outdoor and indoor tiny pots make a world of difference on vigor. But ficus can get too vigorous, very fast!

Interesting how much the best in show resembles the form of another (thicker and more refined) pine at Daiju-en, the garden of Mr. Suzuki (one of the judges). I had to look closer to realize it wasn’t the same tree. Documented halfway down the page on Bill’s blog...

Awesome! You can never have too many pots!

The bow is interesting! $75

One theory is that final shoot selection in the Fall after summer decandling, prevents the shoots from overly elongating rather than reducing to 2 earlier in the summer. Needle plucking to balance vigor can be done at different times of the year. I like cut back into old growth pruning at the...