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Thanks Eric. I'm glad you like the clump. I've been growing out a lot of trees the past several years and it is nice to finally get some material that is ready to work on.

The angle of the camera makes it look a little off but it is definitely right around 4.5 inches.

Yes they are.

If anyone is looking for a nice Trident maple project, I have a couple of ebay listings that you might want to check out. Root over rock http://www.ebay.com/itm/111638661668 5-trunk clump with fused base http://www.ebay.com/itm/111638657783

Here are a few of the "trees" as the stand now, two growing seasons from the initial post. I had potted a bunch of these into 2" pots with the intention of selling them but that hasn't happened yet so pretty much all of them have stayed in the 2" pots and not put on a dramatic amount of growth...

I will take some pictures and post an update soon.

There are some great Japanese websites focusing on small trees. My favorite lately has been Haruyosi who regularly posts his awesome trees and pots on his blog and Facebook page. Nice thing about Facebook is that he writes most of it English. This Japanese blog is also regularly updated...

I seem to recall you posting some pretty big olives Paul. Do you also have smaller ones in shallow pots that you leave outside all winter with no ill effects? Very timely post, I was just thinking about this same question!

Somewhat of a random guess, but maybe Aleppo Pine (Pinus halepensis).

The past couple of years, to keep these little forests from drying out too quickly in my hot and dry summers, I set the pots in a tray filled with damp sand. Roots quickly grow out of the bottom of the pots into the sand and keep the the trees sufficiently watered at least for my once or twice a...

Very cool tree you have there! I'm not sure how commonly they end up in the nursery trade but another possibility, especially based on your location in CA, is the island oak (Quercus tomentella). Although they are naturally restricted to the Channel Islands I know native plant nurseries...

I'll add another guess to the list. Cape honeysuckle (Tecoma capensis) A bonsai of Jim Smith's even popped up when I did a google images search.

Pittosporum tobira They are a common landscape shrub/hedge in California. I'm not really sure about its suitability for bonsai but they don't strike me as being the best candidate.

http://bonsainut.com/forums/showthread.php?3287-2010-BonsaiNut-Trident-Project&highlight=bonsainut+maple+project

I like to grow from seed and I've found these little mini-forests to be a good way to use a few of my excess seedlings. Japanese maple Trident maple I need to get some suitable pots for the spring.

I think if you are using 1-2 year old seedlings for your twin trunk projects, you don't need to worry about trimming the roots and exposing the cambium. The past couple of years I have been growing seedlings through holes in plexi-glass tiles to make twin trunk and group plantings. If they are...

Interestingly, when it fell, they found it to be two Valley Oaks fused together and not nearly as old as they thought it was. A local professor/photographer is currently doing a historical photo project on the tree including tracking down its offspring. Sadly some idiots recently set fire to...

The waterfall is Phantom Falls and it is on Table Mountain near Oroville California. It only flows in the winter and early spring, so it is kind of tricky to see. I haven't been to the cave at the base but I'm sure you can scramble down there somehow.

More Blue Oaks. I love the deadwood hanging out of the bottom of the canopy on this one.

When you initially posted that tree after you bought it, the trunk reminded me of a Blue Oak. I love it!

Blue Oaks (Quercus douglasii) grow in the hot and dry foothills of California. They are medium sized trees but still have all the gnarliness of the larger Oaks. The leaves actually have a faint blue color to them. Pretty awesome mother-daughter composition. This is the sort of...

I love Oaks. Red, Black, White or Blue, I can't really think of an Oak species that I don't like. Each winter, I spend a lot of time admiring the branch structure of the deciduous Oaks in my area. Because they are what I have grown up seeing, these trees epitomize the look of a deciduous tree to...

That is really odd. I've grown many acorns and have never seen anything like that before. Do you know what species of Oak it is?

I like to grow plants from seed and at some point a few years ago I saw Al suggest placing window screen over the seedbed as the seedlings were growing in order to given them some movement while they were young. Al is documenting the technique on his blog this season...

Sorry, that was a bit unclear. The picture is of the Dr. Earth.