Do we have a thread for weird fruit/veg?
Picked this in the garden. Not all suggestions welcome...
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Hack Yeah!
Omono
Birthday present from myself arrived today!
It's exactly what I wanted!
It's exactly what I wanted!
PeaceLoveBonsai
Chumono
Defoliated and sprayed (fungicide) a trident forest.
Before & After
Before & After
badatusernames
Omono
Checked in on seedling cuttings. All seem to be successful, but we’ll see how they fare the winter. Worried I was a bit late, I think @coltranem had some at around this size weeks ago
And what's wrong with that?
It's a girl!
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Cryptomeria BD Got Light Prune to Allow in Air and Light
Before (above).
Healthy and full.
Keeping lower branches to help thicken the trunk during Development.
Some breathing room.
More breathing room and beneath the apex; however, swelling is noted due to the parallel and terminal apices. Not certain if I should remove one of them now or later (before winter), but inverse taper should be prevented.
View of apex from above.
Over all, the amount of foliage and branching removed is minimal. The reason is, I intend to maintain a somewhat full-bodied tree during Development. Most literature also recommends 3-4 pinching and/or pruning per year.
At a much later time (closer to refinement), I will likely creat Jin from future/mature branch removal, but for now I’ll continue light maintenance work, removing crotch growth/unnecessary and unwanted growth, seal cuts, and move forward. The new branch cutters and scissors feel good and natural in my hands.
Other than sealing necessary wounds, do cryptomeria need certain light or shade care post-pruning/maintenance work? I’ve read about certain care after a report, but what about pruning? Thank you!
Before (above).
Healthy and full.
Keeping lower branches to help thicken the trunk during Development.
Some breathing room.
More breathing room and beneath the apex; however, swelling is noted due to the parallel and terminal apices. Not certain if I should remove one of them now or later (before winter), but inverse taper should be prevented.
View of apex from above.
Over all, the amount of foliage and branching removed is minimal. The reason is, I intend to maintain a somewhat full-bodied tree during Development. Most literature also recommends 3-4 pinching and/or pruning per year.
At a much later time (closer to refinement), I will likely creat Jin from future/mature branch removal, but for now I’ll continue light maintenance work, removing crotch growth/unnecessary and unwanted growth, seal cuts, and move forward. The new branch cutters and scissors feel good and natural in my hands.
Other than sealing necessary wounds, do cryptomeria need certain light or shade care post-pruning/maintenance work? I’ve read about certain care after a report, but what about pruning? Thank you!
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Omono
Can I make a suggestion? If your tree has its own thread, link to it when posting here?
I think some progressions get lost when only posted here, and progressions are my favorite part of this site.
(Yesterday) Repotted my green mound ficus into an ABCarve pot.
Post in thread:
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Needs some wiring and a cut back once reestablished.
Before:
After:
I think some progressions get lost when only posted here, and progressions are my favorite part of this site.
(Yesterday) Repotted my green mound ficus into an ABCarve pot.
Post in thread:
Uninspired
Plenty of uninteresting pieces of material are made in to something cool, just takes some time. Make sure in the mean time, you have plenty of other trees to keep you going. I bought a mallsai ficus a few years ago.. highly regret it as I dont like an indoor tree. I've done NOTHING with it...
Needs some wiring and a cut back once reestablished.
Before:
After:
ihaveaspaceship
Shohin
defoliated one of my myrtles
Cadillactaste
Neagari Gal
Come take a stroll on my back patio/morning sun area with my trees. 
photo of Turks Cap Mallow as well today.
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photo of Turks Cap Mallow as well today.
Cadillactaste on Instagram: "A stroll...and a look at my morning sun bench and patio. Love where I was planted. 🥰 The butterfly at the end... gushing...perfect ending."
5 likes, 0 comments - cadillactaste on August 17, 2023: "A stroll...and a look at my morning sun bench and patio. Love where I was planted. 🥰 The but..."
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Japonicus
Imperial Masterpiece
2nd dose of chelated iron in a month.
Removed all the dead needles that were loose and plucked a few that hadn't released yet on this pumillio.
Thinned a bit on my longest running tree. Will be removing 24 or more yrs of growth.
To remove 20+ years of growth or not?
This is my oldest bonsai, duly named Alpha, surviving my "holocaust" when I burned most of my trees up in a cold frame years ago. The few that survived were small enough to go on the ground, rather than what makeshift bench I made on top of the plastic bottom which held some rain runoff...
coltranem
Chumono
Did mine in early July. They have started to push new needles so I moved them into what ever sun I can find in New England. Unfortunately no pictures right now.
badatusernames
Omono
I might be good then! I went back and checked this thread - I did mine on June 22. They seem to be growing well, maybe I should move to "full" sun too. It has been a dark and stormy summer!
I’m going on a short vacation so I pulled out the sprinkler lines and crowded stuff together. It’s not perfect, but it should work.
KikurageOtomo
Shohin
I felt like the exposed root, quince clumps that I started this spring were at a point where putting some beginnings of shape into them would be pertinent while they're quite workable. I'm still up in the air if I should reduce the soil level about an inch next year or if it'd have a better payoff to wait until the following one 
. The sprouting of three new sucker trunks from one of the starters has been very welcome, though I think at least one of them should inevitably be eliminated to keep balance in the composition. On the inverse I wonder if im not thinking vertically enough, that with some wire when those trunks are mature perhaps they could make for nice lower branches?
In the long run I'm sort of relying on a few more suckers appearing, otherwise when proper repotting time comes some rearranging will be in order to fill space in a more pleasing manner. Either way, having fun, quinces are super cool
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. The sprouting of three new sucker trunks from one of the starters has been very welcome, though I think at least one of them should inevitably be eliminated to keep balance in the composition. On the inverse I wonder if im not thinking vertically enough, that with some wire when those trunks are mature perhaps they could make for nice lower branches?In the long run I'm sort of relying on a few more suckers appearing, otherwise when proper repotting time comes some rearranging will be in order to fill space in a more pleasing manner. Either way, having fun, quinces are super cool
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Fidur
Chumono
badatusernames
Omono
So how exactly in depth does customs get in Japan in regards to checking luggage
I saw Bjorn make a comment like, yeah, I did it. But don’t do it.
And it sounds like everyone (who already did it) takes that tone
shohin_branches
Chumono
Most people get trees in by having a friend with an import permit. You need connectionsSo how exactly in depth does customs get in Japan in regards to checking luggage
I saw Bjorn make a comment like, yeah, I did it. But don’t do it.
And it sounds like everyone (who already did it) takes that tone
Shibui
Imperial Masterpiece
Finally got most of the grow beds replanted.
As many of you now know I like to dog most trees each winter to do root work and prune the tops for better taper and trunk bends. Each tree is pruned and assessed. Those that look ready for sale are potted up. Those that still haven't thickened enough go back in for another year.
Sometimes even bigger trees are not fit for sale. Some with ugly scars go back to the ground in the hope the scars will heal a bit more with the increased growth.
This Japanese maple was a landscape tree but was attacked by the mower so I chopped it and transplanted. Still not sure if it will be great bonsai or just firewood. The tree behind is a feral hawthorn collected a few years ago.
As many of you now know I like to dog most trees each winter to do root work and prune the tops for better taper and trunk bends. Each tree is pruned and assessed. Those that look ready for sale are potted up. Those that still haven't thickened enough go back in for another year.
Sometimes even bigger trees are not fit for sale. Some with ugly scars go back to the ground in the hope the scars will heal a bit more with the increased growth.
This Japanese maple was a landscape tree but was attacked by the mower so I chopped it and transplanted. Still not sure if it will be great bonsai or just firewood. The tree behind is a feral hawthorn collected a few years ago.
