My best bonsai advice for 2019

[Anthony]

Oh, and a friend may be bringing in the 1 inch needle J.B.pine cultivar
from Japan. If it is able to live, well life is easy.
Will then do as Wu Yee Sun did -------- 2 foot J.B.pines, and no
need for needle treatment.
With the 1 inch cultivar for mame' etc.

And then that;s a wrap. No more questions

Now at 35 locals [ Sub-Tropicals from the Americas , that now
live here ] probably will hit the 50.
Saturday, the group searches for Celtis i. [ Haclkberry ] South
of the island.
It was already found in 5 areas by the Herbarium at U.W.I
Happy New Year
Anthony

 

[Smoke]

Watch in the mailbox Adair. I'm sending you a bill for a new keyboard. My coffee was blown out thru my nose when I saw in the picture you working on a pine and a roll of aluminum wire on the ground. Don't try to deny it... I saw it....

Hap&5y Nir Ye)..damcn ke^b+%rd

 

[sorce]

Watch in the mailbox Adair. I'm sending you a bill for a new keyboard. My coffee was blown out thru my nose when I saw in the picture you working on a pine and a roll of aluminum wire on the ground. Don't try to deny it... I saw it....

Hap&5y Nir Ye)..damcn ke^b+%rd

It's so the wind doesn't blow the tarp around!

Sorce

 

[0soyoung]

If you find yourself saying, "I would never do that", maybe you should try 'that'.

 

[Hartinez]

Brief but inspiring words. Thank you.

 

[Paulpash]

Watch in the mailbox Adair. I'm sending you a bill for a new keyboard. My coffee was blown out thru my nose when I saw in the picture you working on a pine and a roll of aluminum wire on the ground. Don't try to deny it... I saw it....

Hap&5y Nir Ye)..damcn ke^b+%rd

Haven't you heard - Aluminum is the new Copper.

 

[coh]

Adair, are you wiring your pines with aluminum? Come on, you're among friends - you can admit it!

I have occasionally used aluminum on pines...there, I said it!

 

[Adair M]

Watch in the mailbox Adair. I'm sending you a bill for a new keyboard. My coffee was blown out thru my nose when I saw in the picture you working on a pine and a roll of aluminum wire on the ground. Don't try to deny it... I saw it....

Hap&5y Nir Ye)..damcn ke^b+%rd

Smoke, I have aluminum wire, but I don’t use it on pines. I use it for tying trees into pots. And the kind I have is black.

That spool is actually a brand new roll of copper from Gremel. Fresh out of the box, which is over on the left. Gremel’s wire isn’t quenched when it’s annealed. It’s left to cool on his kiln. So, there’s a thin film of oxidation on the wire. It may be oils left over from the manufacturing process. At any rate, often times, the first time you bend it, the cooked oxidation can pop off. I remember @JudyB complaining about it. That film layer is a dark brown.

If you look carefully, you’ll see Gremel’s paper tag stapled around the spool.

Sorry, you’ll have to replace your own keyboard!

If you want, I’ll take a picture of the little piece of wire I was putting on. It’s still there from last March.

 

[Smoke]

Smoke, I have aluminum wire, but I don’t use it on pines. I use it for tying trees into pots. And the kind I have is black.

That spool is actually a brand new roll of copper from Gremel. Fresh out of the box, which is over on the left. Gremel’s wire isn’t quenched when it’s annealed. It’s left to cool on his kiln. So, there’s a thin film of oxidation on the wire. It may be oils left over from the manufacturing process. At any rate, often times, the first time you bend it, the cooked oxidation can pop off. I remember @JudyB complaining about it. That film layer is a dark brown.

If you look carefully, you’ll see Gremel’s paper tag stapled around the spool.

Sorry, you’ll have to replace your own keyboard!

If you want, I’ll take a picture of the little piece of wire I was putting on. It’s still there from last March.

Nice dodge....your secret is safe with me...

 

[Adair M]

No dodging required.

I don’t use aluminum on pines.

The only time I would ever use aluminum is if I’m somewhere that doesn’t have copper. The bonsai shop where I teach doesn’t really have copper, so I bring my own. The shop provides aluminum wire for their classes, but I usually donate my own copper.

Sorry, this time you ARE “just blowing smoke”.

 

[0soyoung]

blowing smoke

?

 

[Adair M]

Fresh spool is Gremel’s wire. Some are quite dark, as you can see.

 

[Paulpash]

Just like the spools of aluminum wire by the side of your tree @Adair M this is a wind up. I'd recommend not getting bent out of shape by the guy wire talking about - @Smoke - always likes to reel them in. Jesus I've just twigged - his full given name is Al(uminum) Kepler!

 

[Smoke]

Just like the spools of aluminum wire by the side of your tree @Adair M this is a wind up. I'd recommend not getting bent out of shape by the guy wire talking about - @Smoke - always likes to reel them in. Jesus I've just twigged - his full given name is Al(uminum) Kepler!

that's pp

 

[Smoke]

You crack me up Adair, Here it is the first day of the new year and I got you running all over the house taking pictures of wire.....Just a minute I got to get another beer...Hah!!

 

[Adair M]

Nah, I just keep wire all over the house!

 

[Arcto]

You crack me up Adair, Here it is the first day of the new year and I got you running all over the house taking pictures of wire.....Just a minute I got to get another beer...Hah!!

Uh oh! 2019 could be rough! We’ve been forewarned!

 

[Tentakelaertje]

Smoke, I have aluminum wire, but I don’t use it on pines. I use it for tying trees into pots.

Adair, do you notice trees getting looser in their pots than they were when you tied them in at repotting time? Aluminium stretches out and I find my trees wobbling in their pots after a couple of years, despite tying them in pretty snug at repotting time. If you know a trick for that please let me know

 

[Adair M]

Adair, do you notice trees getting looser in their pots than they were when you tied them in at repotting time? Aluminium stretches out and I find my trees wobbling in their pots after a couple of years, despite tying them in pretty snug at repotting time. If you know a trick for that please let me know

Not at all.

But, if you need to tighten the wires after the fact, a trick is to grab the wire running under the pot with a pair of pliers, and giving it a twist. That should tighten it up.

Going back to the time of the original potting, I tie my trees in so that they do not move at all. I could grab the trunk of the tree, and pick up the whole thing, and it not wiggle. (Don’t do that!)

 

[Lochamp]

Tyler Sherrard came to Plant City Bonsai in North Ga last fall, he was great.