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Cajunrider
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Just put one tension wire back to the trunk and you are done.
19Mateo83
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Thank you sir! Even better idea
penumbra
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Flea Market Finds are now Bonsai Pots. Collected these this past summer and drilled this morning. New small bit for wire holes will be here tomorrow. Tall pot is gas fired. One with fluted sides is wood fired. Smaller tan one is porcelain.
Also have chamfer tool coming to polish holes so it looks like they were intended.
Also have chamfer tool coming to polish holes so it looks like they were intended.
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doctorater
Mame
Those are very nice, clean holes. May I ask what kind of bit you used?
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
Diamond hole saw. There are a bunch on Amazon. Go slow and keep wet and they last a long time.
Mike Corazzi
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Fretting !!
Perhaps needlessly but want opinion/s.
This is the oak from the repot from hell that I posted earlier.
I took a LOT of Brillo Pad root chunks. I know that oaks don't like root attacks.
But I left what I ....thought... was plenty of other roots and even some larger ones that I reduced only up to groups of finer roots coming from the more robust ones. These were not HUGE roots. Just 1/16th inch or so.
Medium local commercial bonsai mix with smaller same higher up in substrate.
Then soaked the pot. This was last Friday. 3 days ago.
Now the fret. The surface of the soil is not looking dry.. This is unusual in my experience.
New leaves are encouraging....but.... my fret is that they are living on what was stored IN the tree itself.
I spose I just have to wait to see if it gets okay looking. Pardon the interruption but this oak is one I have done from an acorn and I really worry about it.
Appreciate any comments.
Perhaps needlessly but want opinion/s.
This is the oak from the repot from hell that I posted earlier.
I took a LOT of Brillo Pad root chunks. I know that oaks don't like root attacks.
But I left what I ....thought... was plenty of other roots and even some larger ones that I reduced only up to groups of finer roots coming from the more robust ones. These were not HUGE roots. Just 1/16th inch or so.
Medium local commercial bonsai mix with smaller same higher up in substrate.
Then soaked the pot. This was last Friday. 3 days ago.
Now the fret. The surface of the soil is not looking dry.. This is unusual in my experience.
New leaves are encouraging....but.... my fret is that they are living on what was stored IN the tree itself.
I spose I just have to wait to see if it gets okay looking. Pardon the interruption but this oak is one I have done from an acorn and I really worry about it.
Appreciate any comments.
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Wires_Guy_wires
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If it does a second flush this year, you're in the clear.Fretting !!
Perhaps needlessly but want opinion/s.
This is the oak from the repot from hell that I posted earlier.
I took a LOT of Brillo Pad root chunks. I know that oaks don't like root attacks.
But I left what I ....thought... was plenty of other roots and even some larger ones that I reduced only up to groups of finer roots coming from the more robust ones. These were not HUGE roots. Just 1/16th inch or so.
Medium local commercial bonsai mix with smaller same higher up in substrate.
Then soaked the pot. This was last Friday. 3 days ago.
Now the fret. The surface of the soil is not looking dry.. This is unusual in my experience.
New leaves are encouraging....but.... my fret is that they are living on what was stored IN the tree itself.
I spose I just have to wait to see if it gets okay looking. Pardon the interruption but this oak is one I have done from an acorn and I really worry about it.
Appreciate any comments.
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If not, I'd keep the soil moist. My oak is standing in water and has bounced back a couple times from serious root reductions. But it's pretty young, close to 5-8 years old.
Not sure on how to save it if it turns foul.
Mike Corazzi
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I don't recall a 2nd flush at any time. Possible but sure don't remember it. I never defoliate.
It will be tossed if it fails.
This is a quandary. Everything looks usual except the soil remaining wet-ish looking.
I hope it is like yours and does a nice ...bounce back.
Right now all I'm doing is evening spritzes with very dilute copper solution.
That seems to ELIMINATE the mildew that loves oaks so much.
This one is 4 years old from acorn.
penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
So I was looking at my newest bench and watching the sun play over it. It gets more afternoon sun than I thought under the weeping cherry tree. And because there is no place in our yard off limits and we spend so much time out there, I added a shelf on the south side of the bench. Still needs sanding a staining but I think I'll put that off a couple weeks.
Japonicus
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Lifted Katsura 6 years in ground and made a grow box for it.
Wish me luck.
Wish me luck.
Cajunrider
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Beautiful tree. Good luck.
penumbra
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Katsura is in my top 3 favorites of JM. This one has some great bones for a mother daughter design.
Nice growbox. Mine are much more primitive looking.
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Shohin
Japonicus
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Thanks @penumbra . Just scrap 2x4s, plywood and some screen.
I was planning on layering that left trunk off in a couple of years. Is that the potential 2nd tree on the left base of the trunk you're referring to?
I suppose then the next branch up needs to go if thats the case.
I removed a little more foliage after that post. Hoping it lives. I have zero maples in pots. They all die. Hoping to break the curse.
19Mateo83
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I had a second Christmas 
www.bonsainut.com
Mateo’s pottery
Thank you everybody! More to come soon. I will be shipping my green ware to @BrightsideB for firing for the first time. I’m hoping to eventually find a studio here that offers kiln services. Have you tried Kilnshare?
19Mateo83
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penumbra
Imperial Masterpiece
A hundred people could see that tree two hundred ways. I am just a sucker for mother daughter or father son configurations. On the trail we have a saying, "hike your own hike".
