What are your 2025 bonsai goals?

[NashsMan]

I really like the wire from these guys:

Copper training wire

You just order it by email as instructed on the site. Jeremiah is really nice and responsive and the wire is great.

That's also my source for copper wire!

 

[NashsMan]

Goals for the year:
Continue to improve my wiring technique.

Wire (almost) every tree.

Get a better understanding of how to care for JBP, JRP and JWP.

Show a tree at one of my club's public exhibits.

 

[nuttiest]

Throw away bucket of 35 years of wire curls?

What? No! I will buy if they are copper or dead aluminum. I like used crap, and cant find my junk wireball.

My spring goals:
All I think about are apple trees right now, so:
Grow out apple rootstock. See which is the best for my soil.
Get some excess bonsai and tropicals on eBay listed
learn how to graft
make a ficus bridge
buy some 1:12 people miniatures
for rusted through patio table, make a diorama

Summer goals:
Go into hiding from heat and only water minimally

 

[shohin_branches]

2.5. Throw away bucket of 35 years of wire curls?

Take it to a recycling center and get money for it

 

[shohin_branches]

I really like the wire from these guys:

Copper training wire

You just order it by email as instructed on the site. Jeremiah is really nice and responsive and the wire is great.

Thank you I'm gonna make an order

 

[canoeguide]

"Kill it or make it a bonsai."

More of this.

 

[defra]

What are your goals for the growing season?

What are you looking to improve upon?

What steps are you taking to get there?

Do you have milestones you want to hit?

1:What are your goals for the growing season?

As the past two/three years my trees got neglected provide the propper care again.
Probably add some new projects, start ground growing few new projects as i dug up a few also.

2: What are you looking to improve upon?

My trees and my technique...

3: What steps are you taking to get there?

at this point i have read and seen so much that by just doing and practising i get better and if i stumble upon something new for me do research and practice...

4: Do you have milestones you want to hit?
Yes finish my garden and enjoy my trees.

 

[pandacular]

Sell as many trees as I buy, propagate more than either!

 

[bonsaiwood]

1. Tidy up my ‘bonsai stuff’ (non-plants) and keep everything in one central location— hopefully this will reduce pacing from my garage to the backyard.
2. Make a better backdrop for photo taking.
3. Visit some bonsai gardens in SoCal.

 

[Kievnstavick]

My 2025 Bonsai Goals for the growing season are to build a grow bed for saplings and figure out my "limit" for working on seedlings so as to not overwhelm myself in the future.

I am looking to improve the "pre-bonsai" quality of my young stock. Additionally, I am looking to improve my analysis over branches and their future growth potential. Taking the leap of faith to cut old boring branches.

The steps that I am taking to further the goals are doing landscape planning for a retaining wall and grow bed locations. As for the limit of work, I am keeping a conscious tally of how much saplings I can work through as well as the amount of supplies it takes to work the saplings to better gage the amount of effort it takes in total. As for the things to improve on, I am taking classes with John Eads to reinforce my learning on how to develop pre-bonsai from seeds and paying attention to how the things I do early on effect the tree the next year and beyond. The old boring branches, I am actively working on quelling my anxiety over "wasting" years of growth in order to have a better tree for the future. If I am currently happy with how a branch looks, I probably won't be happy with it years down the line.

My one milestone is to complete building a garden space. Once I have done that, I will just be continuing my education with class.

 

[JudyB]

What are your goals for the growing season?

What are you looking to improve upon?

What steps are you taking to get there?

Do you have milestones you want to hit?

I think I need to get back into better documentation, I used to be better at keeping track of what I did when. Posting trees and development threads here always helped me do that, and I got away from posting for a while. So I may do more of that.