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Your Butt Ugly Elm
I think they are awesome, and when they develop their top foliage they will be great little trees!
I think they are awesome, and when they develop their top foliage they will be great little trees!
Gnarly Ugly Elm
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Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
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Sapling
Spectacular. This will be an amazing tree in short time. Keep up the good work.
catfish chapstick
Chumono
great tree. you definitely have a good eye for stock. looks like a real tree
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Hmmm, time to start thinking about repotting this baby.
So I have this antique stand. I think it is the right size for the pot I want to use. The only thing I am not sure about is whether or not the tree will fit into the pot I have selected for the tree. The actual size is right but I am not sure the root ball will fit into this pot being only about 1.75 inches tall. The glaze sure is good though.
This is an old signed Yamafusa from Japan.
So I have this antique stand. I think it is the right size for the pot I want to use. The only thing I am not sure about is whether or not the tree will fit into the pot I have selected for the tree. The actual size is right but I am not sure the root ball will fit into this pot being only about 1.75 inches tall. The glaze sure is good though.
This is an old signed Yamafusa from Japan.
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Alex DeRuiter
Chumono
That nebari is amazing...I can't believe I never paid attention to it before (probably because I was still very new to bonsai when I first saw this thread). The glaze on that pot is beautiful...and I love the shape of it. I know your climate is far different from Michigan, but how much do you think you can get away with in terms of cutting roots?
Attila Soos
Omono
As long as you dress the top of the soil with moss (100% of the surface), the tree will be fine in the shallow pot.You need that anyway (the moss, that is), if you want to display the tree indoors, on a stand. And since the pot is so shallow that the soil will rise above the edge of the pot, you need the moss to keep the soil from washing out.
Also, I allow the moss to have a thick soil base, when planted on the top of the bonsai medium. That keeps the tree moist enough for a day, during the hot days of summer.
I do this will all my small trees, and never ever lost one due to dehydration.
P.S. You could also use a thin top layer of kanuma, before you put on the moss. Kanuma has very good moisture retention, beside looking nice.
Also, I allow the moss to have a thick soil base, when planted on the top of the bonsai medium. That keeps the tree moist enough for a day, during the hot days of summer.
I do this will all my small trees, and never ever lost one due to dehydration.
P.S. You could also use a thin top layer of kanuma, before you put on the moss. Kanuma has very good moisture retention, beside looking nice.
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Smoke
Ignore-Amus
As far as the thick soil on moss, I too have done that for an exhibit but never to just keep the tree around. I find that the mud on the bottom of the moss is a real soil clogger. I usually take the moss off after a show. Maybe I can use spahgnum moss for soil retention.
Alex DeRuiter
Chumono
Lindsay Farr (I think that's his name. . . .) swears by sphagnum moss for this purpose.
Ang3lfir3
Omono
sphagnum works great for keeping those bits from rolling out.... personally I grow my moss in my pots.... but this is the great wet north... its hard NOT to... 
and I don't know what ur smoking Attila ... .... Kanuma is fugly!
and I don't know what ur smoking Attila ...
.... Kanuma is fugly!
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Cutting roots on a elm here is really easy. You can cut them back quite severly and they respond well, almost seeming energised by the haircut. What I do not know is if the tree will have a claw or not. This is what may keep me from getting this tree from can to pot in one repotting. If it will not work, I will not force it because I know what happens when something is forced. It dies.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
sphagnum works great for keeping those bits from rolling out.... personally I grow my moss in my pots.... but this is the great wet north... its hard NOT to...
and I don't know what ur smoking Attila ...
I thanked you not cause the post was informative, but that you used the word fugly. One of my favorites. Right up there with FUBAR. Which is how I do bonsai. Everything I have is FUBAR.
Ang3lfir3
Omono
Attila Soos
Omono
A thin top layer of kanuma is very good. Remember, this is not the North-West down here, and you need a moisture-retentive medium on the top, or else, the surface roots dry out in a heart-beat.
Attila Soos
Omono
Sphagnum moss is great to keep the top moist. But it is not going to keep the soil from being washed off, because it's too loose and doesn't cling to the soil.
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
I have the secret killer method for keeping the soil in the pot. I mix a little epoxy together with aquarium gravel and glue a thin layer to the soil surface...voila, no soil runoff!
Jason
Chumono
Did you learn your killer secret method at the mall? I have a deep blue glazed pot I'll sell you.
I have a deep blue glazed pot I'll sell you.
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JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Did you learn your killer secret method at the mall?
And I have just the tree for that pot, it's a fukien tea....
Smoke
Ignore-Amus
Did you learn your killer secret method at the mall?
yes....is that a bad idea?
