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[IzzyG]

I’ve been seeing this more and more Izzy but I have to say, I don’t fully understand. Why worry about trees that routinely see sub zero temps in the winter, and in some cases much lower, just because a 20 degree forecast? So many of these species can handle 20F like it was a warm summer day.

Alot of them can definitely take the colder weather in the ground but I’m not 100% certain the roots won’t freeze in some of these smaller containers. I also have quite a few recently styled trees and recently collected yamadori so didn’t want to take the chance.

Photo tax: This was a restyle of a Eisei-en one seed juniper. When I had acquired it from Bjorn, I brought up how the back has significantly better features and he agreed. However, he approached the protruding branch(it carried 70% of the foliage) differently that limited using the back as the front.

Restyled:


Original styling:


Original back:

 

[Hartinez]

Alot of them can definitely take the colder weather in the ground but I’m not 100% certain the roots won’t freeze in some of these smaller containers. I also have quite a few recently styled trees and recently collected yamadori so didn’t want to take the chance.

Photo tax: This was a restyle of a Eisei-en one seed juniper. When I had acquired it from Bjorn, I brought up how the back has significantly better features and he agreed. However, he approached the protruding branch(it carried 70% of the foliage) differently that limited using the back as the front.

Restyled:
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Original styling:
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Original back:

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Certainly not anyone to tell you anything with as many pros as you study with, but I’m 100% certain the root balls on most of these trees freeze in ground and pots. But it’s the sugars and starches that act as anti freeze keeping things unharmed. They are designed to be able to take a freeze. Now you’re in Wisconsin, which is stupid cold. So I’d say 20f is the least of your worries in regards to cold.

 

[shohin_branches]

Trying out some fabric pots and hoping for some cold weather finally tomorrow. I need a good freeze so my temperate trees can go into storage.

 

[badatusernames]

Rewiring some young ones

This is a red pine, I planted it in large akadama in a smaller container tucked into a larger one with normal bonsai mix

I don’t know why, it seemed right at the time

One year in here

 

[PerryB]

Finally! Cut off this air layer of a Brazilian Rain Tree that I bought in June, and then pruned and properly potted the parent tree. Both are in 1:1 mix of pumice and coco coir---and comfortable in my greenhouse for the winter.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

The seasonal backyard brush burn. Had a bunch of old wood and such to get rid of. Its been on and off mist/drizzle as well so its a great day for it.

 

[Warlock]

Made an air pruning box for planting acorns

 

[BobbyLane]

Wired out a Hornbeam

 

[snowman04]

You're killing me smalls! My hornbeam has a long way to go before it hits that level. Beautiful form.

 

[Carol 83]

Had a bunch of old wood and such

Hopefully none of your trees..

 

[Wulfskaar]

Today was day 1 of a 3 day wind storm. I spent part of the day picking up pots of trees that had blown over. Hopefully most of them survive.

 

[Lorax7]

Noticed a bit of sticky goo on the leaves of my ficus cuttings, so did a complete defoliation and then swabbed the stems with a Q-tip and a soap, water, and alcohol solution.

 

[Mikecheck123]

I planted some exotic seeds today. Two nothofagus species native to Patagonia.

 

[Orion_metalhead]

Hopefully none of your trees..

Only one dead pitch pine seedling! Most of them never make it to the burn pile... they go into compost.

 

[Baku1875]

Did some more snips and wiring on my 'test bed/learning' tigerbark that I started styling in April. I'm starting to lean more towards going semi cascade in the spring now that the ramification has improved, chopped off that right branch to begin healing. Been a fun season of 'wire on, wire off, clip and grow, repeat', and applying pointers from the good people on here.

doing a chop after the first rear facing branch of the cascade portion and working with new thin shoots from there next year to enhance the trunk proportion/taper and shrink the overall size to a mini shohin-big mame semi cascade. This was mainly a learning exercise so I'm ok with giving up the ramification work past that point to make it a better bonsai size.


Before: (April 2023)



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After: (base of trunk is about 4x in size now)



A little tilt to get idea for repot angle



Side




Back (or maybe front later on...who knows)

 

[WavyGaby]

Slip potted this guy so there is a little more insulation around it for our chilly winters. It will get a full repot in spring.

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And because I want the good stuff to colonize more of my bonsai soil.
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Nice one. I think I saw this on FB Marketplace recently.

I'm curious to see how the roots look in the Spring. I wonder how much they will expand in your climate through winter.

One of my JBPs below

 

[Matte91]

Metasequoia forest.

 

[Underdog]

This thread sure took off. Love it! I left all my trees in Ohio to take dog swimming. Maybe trolling for gators too...
Trees are on their own for a while. Only the strong survive. LOL was supposed to fly back Thursday but it's cold up there...

 

[August]

Carved myself a bonsai sized jack o lantern at work to keep my trees company over the holiday. Im not even sure if I can fit a candle in there!

 

[michaelj]

My local county fair has potted tree competitions with various categories, one of which is "crash bonsai." So I made this burned out car, burned out tree, composition a couple of years ago for that competition. There's a YouTube thing going around where you're supposed to make a spooky scene or film with a bonsai tree, so I added a new, taller burning tree to the composition, added some charred remains on and around the car, with ghosts hovering over them, howling wolves in the clearing, and a scared little survivor taking refuge on a big rock as a mountain lion in the tree takes note of him. Super cheesy and campy, but it was kind of fun.