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I dig it! Awesome glaze and nice lines. But it was only up for 3.5 days. I wonder if @Bonsai Nut could share view metrics with you. I have only been scanning the first page of new topics and only doing a deeper dive once a week or less. But I’ll have to check more often if you post more!

these? I made a set, but anything that I could bend with it could also be bent with thick gauge copper. Plus the bend didn’t seem as natural. A one inch trunk should bend with 4-6 awg copper. You can double up strands. But if not, look at some rebar bending videos or articles. Edit: BVF...

Cool technique! I just applied the first layer, I even had the same cut paste. Thank you!

Do you seal large branch cuts on the Bursera? I removed a 3/4” sacrifice branch on the B. fagaroides. Thanks!

I don’t know and I have not. I just saw it on the ‘Gram. I’m unable to make it. But I wish I could go.

“big” might be a relative term, but at least it’s in your state!

Oh cool! Like this? I’d also love to hear if that works on older wood to disrupt auxin flow to the buds. A quicker method is “notching,” in which a ⅛ inch round (rattail) file is pulled in a single stroke across the branch above the bud, through the bark only. In addition to being quicker...

I think for a better answer to your question it helps if you first break it categories (juniper, pine, deciduous?) and stages of development. I liked Bonsaify.com for Eric’s juniper and Japanese Black Pine (JBP) courses on development. Bonsai Tonight’s blog on JBP is great for seeing stages and...

“special tweezers” is a great line.

B. microphylla, young plant from California Cactus Center about 12-13yo. More a “specimen” than bonsai. Really suffered in the garage under LED this winter. Very pot bound and nutrient deficient(?). I’d like to repot, but like it to be healthy first.

Wow, the movement! I wish I had put movement in my O. decaryi as a seedling ~12yo! That looks like the subject of another thread! Mine is male (I’ve read only 1 in 10 are female). I’d love to have a female to get seed. They take great from root cuttings, but I haven’t had luck with branch cuttings.

Great info! I saw this tree at the last Bonsai Central and it stopped me in my tracks. What is your timing for repotting and aftercare? For large root cuts, do you let them dry before repotting? I’ve dusted other caudiciforms with sulfur after a root cut. On propagation, is there a best time...

It is definitely at the scene of the crime! It looks like a Phyllobius or Polydurus weevil which seem to feed on leaves. But I did find a reference to them boring cavities under bark, presumably to lay eggs. How deep are the holes? If they are shallow, maybe it is the green guy. I would spray...

That was a Port Jackson fig, F. rubiginosa, but I have rooted F. microcarpa that were 4”D. The only one I couldn’t get to root was a F. macrophylla, Moreton Bay Fig. But I know others have rooted them. I think my issue was time of year and maybe too young of shoots.

Yup! This pic isn’t F. microcarpa, but it’s the biggest cutting that I have rooted! It sprouted at the smaller branch collar and I wired that up before removing the largest chunk of wood. Unfortunately, I moved and gave it away.

That bark, wow! Do you know the species?

Smell, I suspect!

Also, I should heed my own advice! I got behind on pruning and now non-tropical repotting is taking all my free time!

Did you grow in it last year? Do they get enough sun if there is shade? Obviously, it’s a balancing act in a greenhouse to limit solar heat and cook everything.

I was growing too bright indoors and getting chlorosis (leaf yellowing) maybe not enough nutrients or something similar. Now I’m growing on 40% and the F. microcarpas and F. benjaminas are happy, but the strangely it seems the F. burtt-davyii are a little yellow. But the ones in less direct...

What is the humidity and day/night on your current indoor setup? If they are actively (and strongly growing), you can certainly prune now. Expect 1-2 weeks to push shoots and another 1-2 weeks to ‘harden’ leaf cuticles and elongate. If your indoor night temps are over 60F with some humidity...

If you are trying to get under $200, you are probably in DIY territory given the cost of labor. You probably have local woodworkers that might sell you a smaller slab or scrap piece that they would plane smooth for you and then you could add feet for a simple design.

Also check antique stores, I’ve seen a couple stands chopped down shorter from some type of taller end or display table. They looked ok for a club show.

https://bonsaitrees.com/detail.php?id=2822&catid=4 Under $400

Ha! You just barely beat me to it!