NashsMan
Shohin
That's also my source for copper wire!
What are your 2025 bonsai goals?
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NashsMan
Shohin
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.
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.
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
Chumono
Take it to a recycling center and get money for it
shohin_branches
Chumono
Thank you I'm gonna make an order
canoeguide
Chumono
"Kill it or make it a bonsai."
More of this.
More of this.
defra
Masterpiece
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
Masterpiece
Sell as many trees as I buy, propagate more than either!
bonsaiwood
Mame
- 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.
- Make a better backdrop for photo taking.
- Visit some bonsai gardens in SoCal.
Kievnstavick
Chumono
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.
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
Queen of the Nuts
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.
Wood
Chumono
- reduce the size and species in my collection. I want to specialize in cedar elm, hinoki, hornbeams, beech and Styrax, in the hope that I'll learn quicker through specialization. I'm working through selling everything that isn't that currently
- better photo documentation. I'm pretty good about writing down what I did to a tree but terrible about taking photos
- better nutrition and growth. I had a terrible time shaking off chlorosis last year, and seeing Andrew Robson's booming growth was inspiring. I bought a Dosatron for that reason and I want to get that nailed down.
- Weed the garden. It's all freshly landscaped but I need to keep up with killing all the fresh weeds while the new stuff grows in. That kind of small cleaning task is something I'm usually bad at
- better photo documentation. I'm pretty good about writing down what I did to a tree but terrible about taking photos
- better nutrition and growth. I had a terrible time shaking off chlorosis last year, and seeing Andrew Robson's booming growth was inspiring. I bought a Dosatron for that reason and I want to get that nailed down.
- Weed the garden. It's all freshly landscaped but I need to keep up with killing all the fresh weeds while the new stuff grows in. That kind of small cleaning task is something I'm usually bad at
leatherback
The Treedeemer
- Leave my trees alone to mature more..
- Be more on top of maples pruning needs
- Exhibit in national level shows
TomP
Yamadori
That is one of the best interviews I have ever heard. I still think about it months later
TomP
Yamadori
Keep my collection of display trees at between 40 and 50. Whenever I acquire a nice tree decide which one I should sell. Always look to improve the collection
Move all of my growing material in the ground to net pots or baskets for easier maintenance
Go through my pot collection and sell those that are not display worthy for nice trees
Move all of my growing material in the ground to net pots or baskets for easier maintenance
Go through my pot collection and sell those that are not display worthy for nice trees
badatusernames
Omono
Did the big one (do some grafting) so
- finally figure out a sustainable way to organize wire so it doesn’t turn into a rats nest esp when traveling with it
- less exciting trees leave collection
- set up the first stages of beautyberry and trident kabudachi / forest plantings
- cuttings: arakawa, jm, Chinese quince, a specific and unique trident i have, prob more beautyberry for future projects / ground growing
Oh, and figure out how to take a vacation for a week or two without killing my trees
- finally figure out a sustainable way to organize wire so it doesn’t turn into a rats nest esp when traveling with it
- less exciting trees leave collection
- set up the first stages of beautyberry and trident kabudachi / forest plantings
- cuttings: arakawa, jm, Chinese quince, a specific and unique trident i have, prob more beautyberry for future projects / ground growing
Oh, and figure out how to take a vacation for a week or two without killing my trees
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