Potawatomi13
Imperial Masterpiece
Get another hobby to keep busy
. Maybe large JBP. Will keep busy maintaining and killing one after another.
Show us your Oak (Quercus) Pre-Bonsai
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. Maybe large JBP. Will keep busy maintaining and killing one after another.El Tigre de Bonsai
Sapling
Yeah I have expanded the number of trees I have about 10-fold. So now there are too many to take care off for me to focus on one and kill it.Get another hobby to keep busy
John P.
Chumono
@Housguy hooked me up with this quercus suber in June 2020:
Here it is today:
Need to focus on the right-side trunk this season. Will cut back to force some back budding for more branch options. I was hesitant to do so in 2021 because the tree lost some vigor during 2021 due to some leaf-munching pests. Will use a systemic pesticide this year to keep them away.
I love how these trees backbud:
(Summer 2020)
I probably should shrink the canopy on the left while I’m at it.
Here it is today:
Need to focus on the right-side trunk this season. Will cut back to force some back budding for more branch options. I was hesitant to do so in 2021 because the tree lost some vigor during 2021 due to some leaf-munching pests. Will use a systemic pesticide this year to keep them away.
I love how these trees backbud:
(Summer 2020)
I probably should shrink the canopy on the left while I’m at it.
Housguy
Chumono
Looking good John, love the corking on this double trunk!
Forrestford
Shohin
Sumo oak with mushroom.
Potawatomi13
Imperial Masterpiece
What kind of Oak? See tiny fungus grows from deadwood on tree
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Dragon60
Shohin
19Mateo83
Masterpiece
Do the leaves on northern red oaks reduce? I’ve got tons of seedlings and they have such a pretty fall red color to them.
Arizona bonsai
Shohin
Potawatomi13
Imperial Masterpiece
Can be done. This one finds defoliation of all/most large leaves after harden off generates some smaller leaves on new ramification
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NewWorldBonsai
Mame
Live Oak, first photo from a recent repot before working the nebari, last photo from 2016.
Forrestford
Shohin
Yeah, I noticed that after the picture was taken. I cleaned it up.What kind of Oak? See tiny fungus grows from deadwood on tree
Not sure what kind of oak, black oak?
Forrestford
Shohin
powerful base!
Dragon60
Shohin
Another white oak I collected last fall from the backyard. These are new leaves that just popped out the last couple weeks which took me by surprise - didn't expect til Feb. or March. In fact I wasn't even sure if it would come back to life. I like the double trunk but the nebari needs major growth and so is buried.
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Dragon60
Shohin
And 2 more oaks also from the backyard this past fall. One is just under 5 inches tall, the other is just under 5 FEET tall. Not sure exactly what kind of oak the little guy is, but the big guy is a white oak. It does have two branches near the top (hard to see - I tied the top to the crape myrtle to stabilize it) and the buds seem to be starting to swell and I can see a touch of green. Once again something I didn't expect this time of year. (I also have a maple coming to life).
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Big Country Bonsai
Shohin
These are my latest additions. Still have to wait for them to bud out this spring (fingers crossed). These are all Quercus buckleyi
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leatherback
The Treedeemer
El Tigre de Bonsai
Sapling
Quercus crassifolia, an evergreen. Just got these two trees for $150 dollars (3000 pesos) from the state of Morelos. Big leafs on these trees, but we got a long road ahead of us.
weetree3
Yamadori
Did you collect those locally? They are nice.
El Tigre de Bonsai
Sapling
Not sure if they are yamadori, but they were in a forgotten corner of the greenhouse.
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