INDIGO-STEVE
Yamadori
How do you make your charcoal? I'm wanting to try it this year but don't really know what to buy.
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19Mateo83
Masterpiece
I repotted one of my 5 year discount rack contest maples.
I’m hoping to end up with something like this after the stub dies back
I’m hoping to end up with something like this after the stub dies back
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Wires_Guy_wires
Imperial Masterpiece
If you have a fireplace:
1. Grab an old paint can, punch 20 holes in the bottom with a nail.
2. Heat up the fireplace, put the paint can inside and burn all the paint off.
3. When cooled again the next day, take out the paint can and fill it with woodchips (hardwood is better, pine bark chips are faster, olive pits are the best).
4. Close the lid but leave some room for it to breathe, a couple millimeters of open space on one side.
5. Heat up the fireplace again, put the can full of wood in there.
6. Let it burn for 5 hours, let cool.
7. Open can and there is your charcoal. Try burning a chip; as soon as it burns through by lighting just a tip, you have the good stuff.
If you don't have a fireplace, make a bonfire and do multiple cans at once because it's a lengthy process.
Industrial places do this at a larger scale, but it comes down to the same process. I've had discussions on how well charcoal is made by large companies compared to mine.. But all I have to say is that my buddies who won prizes with their barbecuing, are knocking at my door at midnight sometimes. And it's not because the stores are closed (yes, locally we do have a cooled beer taxi that also delivers cigarettes, snacks and charcoal).
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Same here...Wal-mart usually carries them for Valentine's Day here. I checked yesterday and all they had were tulips.
19Mateo83
Masterpiece
I did a few more repots today. All these are cultivars from air layers. All of them got their roots worked and now have nice radial roots. The two in the back are deshojo, front left is sango kaku, front right is shishigashira and the little one in the middle is a kotohime.
Weta
Shohin
Checking out my first Sugi Cedar cuttings from spring,happy they have taken root. 
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INDIGO-STEVE
Yamadori
INDIGO-STEVE
Yamadori
I'm going to give it a try. I appreciate your detailed instructions. Thanks
Maiden69
Masterpiece
you're in zone 6 and it is budding? All my JM including my kotohime are just starting to bud swell.
PowerTap
Shohin
Repotted my lodgepole pine because everything is moving early this year. Goal was originally to get it out of the rest of the nursery soil and put it back in the root builder. But I dropped it into the tray instead when I was done. ran out of time to get it to sit lower in the pot.
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Ruddigger
Omono
I wouldnt leave it it like that. I’d make the walls higher with some mesh or something and add more soil.
Obligatory picture, I made the flyer for our next club show.
n8
Chumono
Lotus Bonsai Nursery and Western Tree Nursery hosted their final dig this past weekend outside of Oroville, California. This is only 30 minutes away from me and an event that I have been trying to attend for years, either having prior obligations or missing the signup. I picked up two JBPs, a trident, an ume, and a seiju on Sunday.
This was designed to be a tree selection, accompanied by instruction on how to best trim roots back and potting into flats, with soil and materials provided. Deciduous on Saturday and conifers on Sunday. However, the Saturday crew wrecked shop, pulling up close to 100 trees (normal is 20-30 per day) and using all of the pumice and potting materials. I don't blame them. This was the last chance to get these trees. But it also meant that everyone there on Sunday had to DIY. This led to bigger discounts on material and I was well stocked at home with soil. I also was not limited to just conifers because everything must go.
Bill, the owner of Western Tree, was planning on tilling all of the leftovers into the ground, but a guy from Berry Creek made him an offer for all of the leftovers and will be digging and transporting them up to his land over the next month. Great that these trees were saved and that there will be another source of quality material near me.
Here's some pics of the trees I brought home.
This was designed to be a tree selection, accompanied by instruction on how to best trim roots back and potting into flats, with soil and materials provided. Deciduous on Saturday and conifers on Sunday. However, the Saturday crew wrecked shop, pulling up close to 100 trees (normal is 20-30 per day) and using all of the pumice and potting materials. I don't blame them. This was the last chance to get these trees. But it also meant that everyone there on Sunday had to DIY. This led to bigger discounts on material and I was well stocked at home with soil. I also was not limited to just conifers because everything must go.
Bill, the owner of Western Tree, was planning on tilling all of the leftovers into the ground, but a guy from Berry Creek made him an offer for all of the leftovers and will be digging and transporting them up to his land over the next month. Great that these trees were saved and that there will be another source of quality material near me.
Here's some pics of the trees I brought home.
Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
Alll this repotting makes me want to get sifting!!
PowerTap
Shohin
Would I be doing great injury to the tree to take it back out prune roots down and get it lower? I'm not sure how to go about a multi-session report for time crunched hobbiests.
Picture of where I want said tree to go.
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19Mateo83
Masterpiece
This was technically last night but I didn’t do anything today so here you go…. These are all seedlings from under a big Seigen JM. Hopefully they have similar traits as the parent tree.
A little forest
A little clump through a soup can lid.
And a single planted in APL
A little forest
A little clump through a soup can lid.
And a single planted in APL
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Yamadori
I have been extremely busy not repotting my new tiny Mugo pines.
It has been quite stressful but I will persevere and listen to advice of people who know better. Please do not mention slip potting or anything like that because it is hard enough.
It has been quite stressful but I will persevere and listen to advice of people who know better. Please do not mention slip potting or anything like that because it is hard enough.
