RJG2
Omono
Maybe I'll go through and harass people for updates today if I have time!
The Five Year "Native Tree, Native Pot" Challenge!
- Thread starter zanduh
- Start date
Gabler
Masterpiece
What do you mean by manage? The admins/moderators keep the site running, so the site manages it for us. We just have to post our results in three and a third years. I don’t think there was ever supposed to be a “winner,” just an online exhibition of everyone’s resulting trees.
Tidal Bonsai
Omono
It would be fun if it is "judged," by people who are not in the contest.
RJG2
Omono
Well, one of the rules was to post yearly updates.
I often see the originator of the challenge or contest go through the entries to ask for updates/whether it is still in the running.
Potawatomi13
Imperial Masterpiece
Interesting rule considering tree can be entered right up to end time of contest
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FreshAirSunshine
Shohin
I’d really like to submit a deciduous azalea I’m just starting to work with since late July. I know it’s commonly considered a bit of a fools errand but I’d love to learn what I can to develop bonsai-appropriate deciduous azalea. I’ve seen a few threads on the topic but I think it’d be fun to try. My tree is not 100% untrained having been trimmed this year after purchase at Westin Nurseries in MA in a burlap bag. It’s in rough shape but I’m doing my best with it for now - already been through the gambit of it having scorched some at the nursery and more recently having a lacebug infestation. Hopefully it survives the winter!! 
FreshAirSunshine
Shohin
I’d really like to submit a deciduous azalea I’m just starting to work with since late July. I know it’s commonly considered a bit of a fools errand but I’d love to learn what I can to develop bonsai-appropriate deciduous azalea. I’ve seen a few threads on the topic but I think it’d be fun to try. My tree is not 100% untrained having been trimmed this year after purchase at Westin Nurseries in MA in a burlap bag. It’s in rough shape but I’m doing my best with it for now - already been through the gambit of it having scorched some at the nursery and more recently having a lacebug infestation. Hopefully it survives the winter!!
Brim Gribley
Yamadori
Nice locust, my Brother in law has 2 he is growing in north shore long island (not for bonsai), you are correct they are everywhere. This one has nice bark development, I am looking forward to seeing the progression, Good Luck!
Brim Gribley
Yamadori
3 dogwoods and two maples,
1 dogwood collected less late fall last year , no developing or styling done
2 more dogwoods collected early spring, same
2 maples ( either red or sugar) collected spring, same
All in nursery pots, will post pics soon
Brim Gribley
Yamadori
Brim Gribley
Yamadori
Maples
not sure what type, if anyone knows
not sure what type, if anyone knows
Gaitano
Shohin
I just saw this thread. (Late to the game, yep) and would like to participate. In 2020 I started numerous Acer Rubrum seedlings from seeds collected from a neighborhood tree.
ShadyStump
Imperial Masterpiece
Better late than never.
Gaitano
Shohin
Exactly!
I would like to jump in as well. Started doing bonsai in January of 2020 (just in time for covid) and planted a lot of seeds from local trees. I will look in my garden tomorrow to see what I would enter. A couple of them I just repotted in bonsai training pots and had to be fairly aggresive on the roots to get them bonsai-ready. Hopefully they will survive. Fingers crossed. BTW, I live in South Florida. Hi everyone, nice to meet you.
Zerobear
Yamadori
A clump planting of trident maples. Started with 7 a year and a half ago. died to 4, all of which grew together. I added one last fall to get them back to five. will take cable ties off in a month or so. 
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Zerobear
Yamadori
Gabler
Masterpiece
Pretty sure those aren't native to Mississippi.
Millard B.
Yamadori
What are the starting and finishing dates of the Challenge? Is it too late? I have several dozen Japanese Black Pines left over from a grafting project started in 2019 that are still in 4" bulb pans and are starting to decline, I've lost over a dozen and have decided to re-pot even though it is the wrong time of year. I'm not doing any serious root work except for teasing the matted roots on the sides of the pots and increasing pot size to 8", 10" and 12" shallow bulb pans using either 1/4" lava, an inorganic mix, or peat and perlite mix. I'm here in S. Fla in zone 10, about the end of JBP 's growing limit. I will be a vendor at Bonsai Societies of Florida State Convention in Orlando at the Florida Hotel May 26, 27, 28 selling my handmade stoneware bonsai pottery,
Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
JBP are not native to the US.
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