Whats your biggest bonsai enemy?

[fredman]

Gees this can be a worry....Any Scottish bonsaists around? Watch out for these in your pots...can swallow a cute little shohin I imagine

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe...f-snakes-discovered-on-remote-scottish-island

 

[Mike Corazzi]

Damn little birds, thrashers or towhees, that dig the soil oot of my pots every summer.

If it's towhees, put a mirror somewhere in the yard and watch the fun.
They'll peck their brains out fighting themselves.

 

[Eric Group]

Squirrels!
I have found that they detest lava rock. I got in the habit of using it as a top dressing on a few things- it is heavy, attractive looking and does not wash out if a pot/ prevents lighter soils from washing out! The added side effect has been that all the trees I added it to had zero VC incursion! Needless to say- many more pots have gotten this too dressing!

It is encouraging as well through because I use lava in my Bonsai mix, so they tend to leave the trees in Bonsai pots alone! Now... The bark, well... They still chew on that from time to time! Lil bastards!

My dog can be a pest too- green dream is apparently a dog's dream! I cannot use it on any tree low enough for him to get his mouth on. He will steal it in a heart beat!

 

[milehigh_7]

depression and gnats...

 

[thomas22]

Year round club soccer for multiple kids.

 

[JohnnyFive]

Definitely squirrels. had to relocate a few of them. I even trained my dog to recognize the word squirrel. If i look into the backyard and see one all i gotta do is say the magic word and he is racing to clear the yard.

He had a showdown with a possum that was eating his dog food. was about a foot away from the dog door entrance to the kitchen.

oh yea, black spot on my elm!!!

 

[leatherback]

Facebook feedback

 

[M. Frary]

Viet cong...wars over bro

Varmint Cong. And the war rages on.

 

[eferguson1974]

My biggest bonsai enemy has been: impatience.

Amen. I was gonna say the same thing but you beat me.

 

[eferguson1974]

Being bored. And back pain.

 

[just.wing.it]

Ignorance.
After several books, and time here, I feel pretty well about my knowledge and capabilities now.
More books on the way!

 

[Waltron]

Damn rabbits did me dirty this year... hard pruned a bunch of my collected material (from last spring) in my garden bed. Ive declared jihad on them bastards. got my 10/22 dialed in tight with the subsonics. Those and them godamn caterpillars that set up shop in in my crabapple leaves.

 

[sorce]

I guess mine has been gravity.
And wind.
Or wind then gravity.

Raccoons once.

Who's up for designing automatic heat seeking bb's that only kill Varmint Cong?

Sorce

 

[just.wing.it]

I guess mine has been gravity.
And wind.
Or wind then gravity.

Raccoons once.

Who's up for designing automatic heat seeking bb's that only kill Varmint Cong?

Sorce

Haha, Damn gravity.

 

[Kodama16]

Watering. Gets me every year. Not enough in summer then to much in winter. Grrrr

 

[Cypress187]

Well i guess the biggest enemy / threat for my bonsai is me, collecting in wrong season, repotting in bad soil on the wrong time. But i have a feeling i've done all the bonsai killing stuff now (and learned), and ready to keep them alive from now on (and that's not a promise)

 

[M. Frary]

subsonics

CCI Stinger hollow points. Supersonic. If you don't get a clean shot it takes off a large enough chunk to slow them down. Vicious little .22 rounds. Same thing those gator hunters use.

 

[Rid]

Definitely squirrels. had to relocate a few of them. I even trained my dog to recognize the word squirrel. If i look into the backyard and see one all i gotta do is say the magic word and he is racing to clear the yard.

He had a showdown with a possum that was eating his dog food. was about a foot away from the dog door entrance to the kitchen.

oh yea, black spot on my elm!!!

Your mama was a snowblower!

Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

 

[Waltron]

CCI Stinger hollow points. Supersonic. If you don't get a clean shot it takes off a large enough chunk to slow them down. Vicious little .22 rounds. Same thing those gator hunters use.

oh yes I am well aware of the stingers, 1650 fps makes for an awesome .22 hunting round. I put a nice big ol fat bull barrel and thumbhole stock and on my rig, shoots the stingers very well. They group about 2-3 inches higher then the sub sonics, I just re zero'd for the sub sonics because when I shoot one off the deck my wife cant even hear it through the glass sliding door, she asks a lot of questions when guns go off in the backyard. funny you mention that though because I tagged a coyote TWICE, once in the neck and once broadside with some 1200 fps match 40 grain non hollow points just last week. it really really pissed him off, he ran away I couldn't believe it. stinger would have done the job I reckon... quote from my father: "never, ever, be under gunned".

 

[M. Frary]

I use the 10/22 also. 3to9 power scope.
Stinger would put a coyote down for sure. And larger. I like the cracking sound they make.