Paradox
Marine Bonsologist
Might want to keep the trap out for a bit.
Last time we had them in the house, I caught 6 before I stopped getting them.
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Last time we had them in the house, I caught 6 before I stopped getting them.
TrevorLarsen
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Repotted my Seiju elm for the first time. 
Michigan Tree Murderer
Masterpiece
Those Lansing MI mice look different. Never seen one that color around here.
Picture tax. Photo from CA vacation last year.
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Michigan Tree Murderer
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pandacular
Masterpiece
No mercy on the roots! Love it, did you get this from Brent?
Today, I organized my pots, and appreciated my view, as BVF reminded me how nice it is.
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TrevorLarsen
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Orion_metalhead
Masterpiece
put tropicals out ... brought tropicals in. figured the rain and 40deg temps would be good for them.
The Barber
Chumono
Some photos from my collection areas. Miles upon miles of cliff ridges. Yamadori simply means collected from mountains, or am I mistaken?
Brian Van Fleet
Pretty Fly for a Bonsai Guy
Nice start on the Seiju. They are fun trees that can keep you busy. This one has a good nebari started. The pond basket is going to keep you even busier watering constantly and keeping it upright. If you’re trying to grow it out in a container, I’d suggest a wide shallow terra cotta pot, and plant it higher so the nebari is just barely under the surface.
TrevorLarsen
Chumono
I was planning on putting the pond basket into a bigger pot once the roots have grown more. It had some root rot since it was in pure organic soil before. Sounds like I will need to rethink my plan. Do you still think I should put it in a terracotta even with it being all slimy on the bottom of the nabari?
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Oh I love doing this! I've started taking my little ones on these hikes in hope they might be inspired to pursue bonsai!
19Mateo83
Masterpiece
The terracotta should help control excess moisture without drying out too quickly. It should help that slimy bottom nebari.
NateDyk47
Shohin
My wife was saying the same thing... usually some form of gray. They're also CHONK - she thought it was a rat when she first saw it.
NateDyk47
Shohin
Yup, especially after catching 2 within 20 minutes of setting the traps. I've been replacing them
Maiden69
Masterpiece
Doing so will neglect the purpose of the pond basket. The benefit is pruning the tip of the roots to increase the amount of feeder roots the tree has all the time close to the trunk of the tree, once you place it into a bigger basket you lose that benefit. The roots will grow thick as they grow through the first basket, some will get choked, some will grow thick and rapture the basket.
When I started I used pond baskets on all my trees, until I ran into the problem Brian mentioned about needing to keep up with the watering. I added a small dish at the bottom so that the lower part of the basket was slightly under water. That helped my thirsty trees from wilting between waterings, especially my liquidambar.O and my now dead luma apiculata. Now I use rootpouch exclusively on everything, same concept as a basket but they retain moisture. I use the gray ones as they are good for 3 years in-ground, but they do phenomenal as well in a pot-in-pot set up.
Below are CMEG1 pines in small #1 Rootpouch bags surrounded by pumice to retain moisture in the bag. The soil is completely inorganic, so water flows straight through without water logging.
Collected BC from cajunrider in a #5 Rootpouch, yes, the Rootpouch will entrap the root tip and kill it even when submerged in water. This is the main benefit of this brand, and the Rootmaker brand. All other pouches will fail within a few months as they rely on air pruning, the root will grow straight out of the side of the bag. With Rootpouch there are a few escape roots from the seams at the bottom, which will help the tree grow bigger.
I start using terracotta pots once I move into a stage where I don't want the trees to grow fast and concentrate into developing them. So far I only had a few azaleas in pots, which I lost this year to the freeze we had in December, as I had no capability to mulch in the pots in the apartment I am staying at.
Gabler
Masterpiece
It looks like a deer mouse. The gray mice you tend to see indoors are house mice, which came over on ships from Europe.
Unrelated picture of small seed Japanese maple seedlings I sowed last fall:
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Mame
perhaps you are technically correct, but to me (and maybe most) yamadori implies a mangled, old, deformed tree collected from a remote and almost inaccessible place.
shohin_branches
Chumono
In my ongoing endevor to continue making things harder on myself when I have no time or energy I decided to poorly assemble some dawn redwood cuttings into a bonsai pot.
I forgot to get a photo of the tie-down structure
Thanks I hate it! Should have made a single clump on the right.
At least it's an incremental improvement and I was able to throw away two more plastic nursery pots. I'll keep sticking cuttings in here and see what takes.
I forgot to get a photo of the tie-down structure
Thanks I hate it! Should have made a single clump on the right.
At least it's an incremental improvement and I was able to throw away two more plastic nursery pots. I'll keep sticking cuttings in here and see what takes.
TrevorLarsen
Chumono
I actually have some grey root pouches on hand. I’ll swap it into the pouch. It’s a 3 gal size so I guess I can roll the sides down to make it smaller? I have never used them and I have no idea how to anchor the tree. But after seeing how you put the pouch in a pot I’ll copy that for sure.
