jbp

Hello, Bonsai Masters, I have scoured the threads and cannot find anything exactly like what I see on these pines. I have this browning on multiple saplings. Zone 8b (middle Georgia), happening since August on new emerging growth and some existing needles. Any pine sleuths know what’s up?

Japanese Black Pine pre-bonsai growth and progress thread.

Found a local guy who has a cool little nursery in his backyard here in WNC (Candler) and has a lot of pre bonsai stuff picked this up and looking for any advice for a first time with JBP. Figured at the very leas you guys can appreciate the pic 🤷‍♂️.

Thank you @cmeg1 for these beautiful little ninos. Here will be the story of their journey 👽👍🏼 Meet Walter and The Dude……. Walter The Dude Follow along!!! “Smokey, this is not ‘Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.”

It’s been a struggle this year in Dallas. I’m pretty sure at this point it’s too far gone, but going to see if keeping a heavy fertilizer regiment and a recent repotting (mid Feb’24) enables me to save this JBP. I didn’t see anything that would have indicated root rot or any issues with the...

Hi Everyone, I will start this off with a disclaimer, I am very new to creating and working on my own bonsai. I've bought a few nursery stock trees that I am practicing on but came across a trident maple on market place and the very cool dude threw im a free JBP when I've told him I've been...

After seeing the 6 year JBP from seed contest end, I immediately thought, "OK, I've learnt a lot, I can do better, let's go again!". But now I can't help wondering, how many people had trees in the game but didn't quite "Get there". I for one haven't even done a first proper trunk chop, and I...

Hi All! I have a japanese black pine that I have planted in the ground in San Diego now nearing the end of fall. I'm hoping to keep it in the ground as niwaki. I was trying to create some curves, but the main trunk may be a little too thick. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to lop...

I’ve been reading through Julian Adams’ book ‘Growing Pine for Bonsai’. Regarding double-flush pines, he mentions that they should be reduced to only a single bud before candle extension in spring: “Each terminal of the two flush pines should have a single bud at the terminal end, energy...

Went out in the garden after working all day and been busy. I noticed my JBP appears to be pushing new candles?? Should I be worried? I repotted it this spring due to a bad needlecast issue and having it in too big of a grow box that stayed too wet. I did no rootwork, basically just slip potted...

Hey All! Got a Japanese black pine from the nursery a month ago and planted it into the ground this summer. I planted it on a mound to help with drainage and have been watering ~ 3 days or so. It gets about 5-8h hours of sunlight a day. I got my soil tested and nutrients are plentiful with...

So, I was watching YouTube and a new BonsaiQ video popped up on my feed. A little over halfway through the video, the guy says that he repots Japanese pines in the middle of summer when it’s hot. Kinda blew my mind to hear that. Has anyone here tried doing that as their regular practice? If so...

I've compiled 2 of my video's into 1 full video featuring a Japanese Black Pine I've been working on for some time!

I need help deciding on the front for my tree before I cut any more branches. Here some pictures the first 2 are one option and the other 2 are my second option.

Hi, I have a austrian black pine and I was looking at some JBP and thought to myself, these two tree's look very similar and I thought that maybe people prefer JBP for some other reasons, like growth rate or resistance to some kind of disease or maybe just a cultural thing, cuz you know, bonsai...

I've received this tree from a friend who is moving to Hawaii and cannot import JBP. It is 7 years old, grown from seed from an Amazon bonsai kit he's now wife bought him when they were first dating. It's lived indoors all 7 year between an office building and his apartment and I'm honestly...

Hi, this is my first post in this forum since joined this forum in 2019 location: Bandung, West Java, Indonesia Found this forum by accident on google when I was searching for some information about sowing JBP seeds back in October 2019. Not knowing there’s a 6 years JBP contest, I was 20...

I picked this Japanese Black Pine up around 2 weeks ago. From what I see I have 2 options; 1. Keep it at it's current height and start developing/refining it. 2. Chop it roughly half way to create a shohin sized tree. Just looking for everyone's opinions as I'd be happy with either options, or...

I am relatively new to bonsai, I have quite a collection of purchased, collected, gifted, and cuttings. I have multiple ongoing projects and would somewhat consider myself intermediate at this point. I am hoping I can get a couple of answers on JBP. I currently live in FL (Lee County) (Zone 10A)...

so I have a serious problem and I don’t know what it is or how to fix it. My pines shoots just became white over a period of a day or two and have began dying back. They are really fragile, more than usual, way more so, almost squeezable. I don’t know what’s going on. It’s almost spontaneous and...

I planted this JBP seed on the edge of the bottle so I could see it grow because my other ones wasn't growing (Didn't bother stratifying) but as you can see in the photo, I realized it was a mistake because its close the the edge of the bottle and its going to have poor growing space. I was...

Spring down here so seedlings are growing. I decided it was time to pot on one batch of JBP today. Just letting others know how I do this in case anyone is interested. Tray of seedlings a couple of weeks old Roots I've learned over many years that cutting roots at this stage produces much...

Does anyone have any advice for seed starting JBP and Scot's Pine? I've been cutting my teeth with nursery stock and with the nature of this addiction I either need to deepen my pockets or grow my own. I've got 10 acres of forested mountain terrain to grow on with just about any water condition...

I have quite a few Japanese black pine growing in the ground in grow bags. I haven't heard anyone discuss the nuances of what to cut, when to cut, or how to cut to encourage the fastest base thickening and keep lower growth healthy. I have heard to not trim or cut back to encourage rapid...

Hi, I’ve recently acquired 30 or so JBP seedlings and have been reading up on the seedling cutting technique, my question is are these seedlings too old to cut and secondly, is it too late in the season to take them (it’s early autumn/fall here in the uk which is pretty mild and I don’t have...