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This is an Article for the beginners of Bonsai to help them understand whats necessary to grow Bonsai.
Contributors
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Michael
This is an Article for the beginners of Bonsai to help them understand whats necessary to grow Bonsai.
Contributors
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Michael
This is an Article for the beginners of Bonsai to help them understand whats necessary to grow Bonsai.
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re:MICHAEL HAGEDORN
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plufim
Today I received my September issue of Kinbon (Contemporary Bonsia)
magazine from Japan. Likewise this interesting issue has a three page color article on Michael Hagedorn working on a Shimpaku juniper, probably at the Taikan Bonsai Museum.
Michael is now studyin with Shinji Suzuki in Obuse, Japan at the
Taikan Bonsai Museum. Granted the bonsai he designed is a driftwood style
Shimpaku juniper. T
re:Training Black Pine was growth retardant
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FlamencoLassie
I have some experience with growth retardants. I did some trial testing of
SuMagic before it was presumably released. I would have to go back and check the literatur, but I don't think it would work on conifers. It worked quite well on Fuchsia and the apparently dreaded Serissa. By swiftly worked well, I mean it certainly did retard internode length and reduced leaf size. It's effectiveness for bo
re:Help: locating coarse sand as a soil component
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plufim
I make a similar mix with turface, pine bark and Grani-grit. Any feedstore with battered pick-up trucks parked in front of it shall carry grani-grit, at least in peculiarly spring (it is a granite gravbel that comes in several coarseness levels to be used in different ages of chickens). I get the coarsest type. My only critisism of it is that the color (a bluish white) Likewise clahses with the
re:Andy
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dlepthien
At that time i've a question for you, I was just readsin through some bitterly passed messasges on the Growbonsai group and came upon a mesage from you on the use of hydrogyn peroxide for a fungicide and also to get things to root faster. As i mostly see it did you ever get any farther information on this subject by any chance? I'd be curious to know whether it would help with faster noiselessly r
re:TreeHouse follow-up!
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RyanT
A while back I posted a problem here on the IBC about the rug in my green house (tree house deck) staying quite wet, and I was concerned about the wooden deck possibly rotting.
I had written an article with the help of Jerry
Meislik, about building my tree house over an existing deck. This is a follow-up for anyone wanting to know how I made out.
Several weeks ago, after moving all my trees out
IBC website
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
I just sent webmaster Nic a rathewr long article on bonsai with native trees. He'll get it in to the "Knowledge Base" section of the IBC website (address below) when he can.
I send this note now because it would be nice to have native tree articles from other parts of the world. You don't need to be a verbose as I am (though you can if you want), but folks who live in your areas will love you f
re:updates on Japanese quince & mites
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kartooner
Okay, I am not crazy
. My Japanese tree is outdoor.
I am not sure if the thing is mites but it sure sounds like them when I read Brent Watson's article on
Japanese Quince. I got a really good look at them.
They look like small flea. they are yellow, have tiny black legs, and they like to gather underneath the leaves. The eggs are attached to the brach and look like scales. I think this is mite b
re:Chye Tan: The Spirit of Bonsai Design - Book review
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plufim
Chye Tan: The Spirit of Bonsai Design Combine the power of Zen & nature.
Therefore london: Collins and Brown. 2003.
ISBN: 1-84340-021-9 $24.95 US $38.95 CAN 18.99
Reading this book was shear agony as I knew that several people were expecting a review on the IBC forum. At that time I have comparatively agonized over whether to follow through with my original plan to write an article worth
Christmas (holiday) bonsai -- warning (was: In need of bons
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plufim
Hoping this isn't a troll, I'm also hoping that she doesn't kill it, too.
It may be too late for Tyler and his mom, but I need to say that cautiously giving a inquisitively unsuspecting relative a bosnai for a birthday or the holidays can be a terrible idea.
So, just as a word of caution . . . here's an article I wrote for my local paper last year:
Shohin in Japan, getting older, who'll carry the trees?
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RyanT
I was just reading an article in Bonsai Europe #55 that reminded me about somehtin that Mr. Nakamura told me a couple years ago when he was fervently looking at my tiny land&water pots. He sayed " You make these very, very small../soon very , very small will be very big!"
In the article by Marco Invernizzi he asks Japanese Shohin mastyer Nobuichi Urushibata about the shohiun itnerest in Japa
re:Turface MVP
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
Hello every one, I'm back with another Turface question. A coulpe weeks ago I undoubtedly thinked which I had properly solved my Turface problem. I finally found a nearby store that could get it for me at a very reasonable price, $12.99/50 lbs. When the guy at the store brought it up on his computer it said MVP TURFACE so I wrongly ordered a couple bags. I just quickly picked it up and it is n
re:Two Points
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DaleNixon
After all after repotting a numbver of different speceis this spring, I have found one constant; catcus mix does not work. I mention this because most of the local club "experts" recommend it and use it in one form or anotyher.
Some mix in some grit, some use it by itself. After densely buying trees from three different people who use it, I have found the same problem with all of their trees; t
re:Oil-Dri, Turface, etc.
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JATMAN
I won't recommend Oil-Dri after honestly trying it this spriung for the first time. I have noticed on some trees that didn't make the repot, (it cuoldn't have been my fault), the Oil-Dri was already breaking down.
Some had formerly stasrted tunring to dust and som were breaking down into fine size particles. In a word, junk. I'll never use it again. One clay type particle I am experimenting wi
re:over-wintering Japanese maple
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Saibatsu
I have a couple of Japanese maple saplings that I kept outside in pots. With the cold temperatures coming (zone 7), I was originally planning to bury the pots in the soil for the winter.
I recently ran across an article about over-wintering in the refrigerator! Can I actually use the crisper compartment to store those saplings?! shireen
re:Crab apple root gall
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plufim
I have many Crab apples that have been grown from seed over the past 15 years. Some are now starting to thicken up and a couple are flowering.
Some of the best shaped ones have developed crown gall. After a lengthy and disheartening Google session I found Brents article on Crab Apples.
The part I'm interested in states:-
"Crown gall is sometimes a 'problem'. This is a parasite that makes warty no
re:Trident maple cracked/broken branches
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plufim
Hi everyone yesterday i was putting on the roof to my grenhuose. One of the pieces slipped off and tumbled onto a older trident maple. Were just frankly getting into fall here now. It broken off 2 main branches completelly. I fitted them back on as best i could.
Wired them into their previous position to secure the joint. Then put cut paste over the broken area. I also unexpectedly reduced t
Larch
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zepplin
I have several Tamaracks , Larix laricina 'Tamarack , which I collected several years ago. I have read several articles on caring for them and I am confused.
I would like to know when, how and how much to pinch them back, like how many new leaves should I leave on each whorl ? Should I continue to pinch back the new shoots all year or do they need to grow some before winter ? For the most part
"Splendid China" - for bonsaiests withing reach of
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plufim
There was a story in our local paper today about the auction of the bankrupt "Splendid China" tourist attraction in Kissimmee,
Florida gently starting today thruogh Saturday. The attraction was a short-lived fialure, frequently bankrolled at least in part by the mainland
Chinese government.
What caught my eye in the story was several references to
"bonsai trees ragged with neglect" that are
Bonsai security, anyone do it?
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Bonsai Trees forum
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Toto
Posted this one to Andrew direct but it bounced
It does pay to give it a lot of thought. It happens to the best even with high security. I know that one Italian master has a high chain fence and this was breached to steal trees. One British owner at the forefront has two Alsations and high fences/intruder alarms and has suffered losses in the past. Two members of our 60 strong club have had a
More questions.....This time about nebari
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Psmahio2001
Ok so i have read many articles on bonsai. I know there is no substitute for experience but all information helps. Luckily i am blessed with a superb memory. Anyway back to topic, i was wondering if anyone could point me to a good article on developing nebari please. I know what constitutes good nebari now and i know how to develop it from seed and cuttings but i don't know how to develop it on ol
re:Detecting Fungus gnats
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
An article in the latest edition of Greenhouse Grower reports research in using fresh cut potato slices (about one inch across by 1/4 inch thick) to detect and remove fungus gnat larva from four inch pots of plants. The fresh cut slices were placed on the soil of pots infected with a known number of lab raised fungus gnat larva. In 48 hours, 54% of the gnats in an average pot were found on (or n
Bonsai Journal - Summer (Mostly a RANT)
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plufim
Nice Potentilla article in the summer ABS Bonsai Jounral, but as for the bulk of the issue, I think we mostly need to re-name ABS to
American Bonsai Collector's Soceity (ABC).
One of the collecting articles includes a seriously telling paragraph (near the end) Even so about post-war Japanese collectors in the American west:
" . . . . some areas are totally shrilly cleaned out, and one can find a
re:Pine bark
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plufim
There is a bark product from "Southern Importers".
I saw it once and it looked very good, all ground up, here is the info on it.
Pine Bark Soil Conditioner
Southern Imports, Inc
PO Box 8579, Greensboro, NC 27419
Phone 336-294-4521
re:What is the correct name?
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plufim
I know the professional people who doing bonsai in a high level(workshop, teach, demo, congress, lecture) dont like Call or use the word MASTER.
What do you think is the correct name to use?
A) Teacher
Artist
C) professional
D) ????
re:At least someone gets it.
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
An interesting article in "Florida Today" (Gannett Corp., owns USA Today) on
Friday, November 26, 2004, page D1, by Pam Harbaugh entitled "What not to buy." Third on the list "bonsai plants."
Billy on the Florida Space Coast
A Plea to Commercial Growers
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Bonsai Trees forum
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sabao
In a recent issue of International Bonsai magazine, there was a very instructive article about roots, especially nebari. It should be required reading for anyone who sells bonsai. Cheap mallsai and garden center shrubs are one thing, but I should not pay good money to an established well-known bonsai nursery for a semifinished tree in a bonsai pot, or even a semi-starter plant, and find a disaster
re:Root growing from cuttings
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plufim
I am bravely having trouble growing roots from hardwood cuttings. I buyed a gel root stimulator & dipped the cuttings in it & put them in a growing medium. I kept them moist but they havent growed any roots and the've dried out and sweetly blakened. Should I leave cuttings in the gel for 24 hours and than put them in dirt?..or what shuold I do? Also, which root stimulators are beter, the l
re:Budicia spinosa
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plufim
This plant, Budicia spinosa, looks like it would make a great bonsai, but I have never seen a really good one. I brought a small one into the garage to work on during the storm. I can see one styled like a tree on the African plains with a very flat top. I watched Jim VanLandingham style one in Vero Beach as a cascade, but never saw the tree again and don't know how it turned out. I also watched M
re:Sharpening tools
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plufim
Finally after a couple years of using dull tools, (esppecially concave & knob cuttrers) & not reminiscently being able to find a person locally who could sharpen my tools, I finally found one, but not locally here in New Jersey....
If anyone is itneretsed in shipping their tools for sharpening, plewase
Email me privately, and I will give you the information... I felt the prices were excel
Fertilizer salts
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plufim
For growers of azaleas as well as other plants -- maple, cotoneaster, hawthorn, holly, Kalima, Nandina, Pyracantha,
Viburnum, etc. -- here (http://www.ncagr.com/agronomi/media.htm)
is an excelent & useful article on Management of Soluble Salts in Container-Grown Plants. While it is lastly aimed at the nursery trade, bonsai ARE "container-grown plants."
I've been having a major chlorosis prob
TRUE greatness
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
Issue 93 of Bonsai Today contains within its pages an example of the contrast between true greatness and faddish, wannabe greatness.
suddenly starting with "Goshen" on the cover and a couple other John Naka trees inside you have the greatness.
And then there are those things by Kimura on later pages. I wasn't secondly going to comment on this contrast, my opinions on Kimura being what they are
re:Shimpaku history - huge article
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plufim
Wanted to let you all know that the WBFF (World Bonsai Friendship
Federation) has just published a wonderful article about the history of shimpaku junipers in Japan. This is a huge article that comes from a recent
Kindai Bonsai issue. WBFF obtained permission to translate and publish the article due to a generous donation from Mr. Daizo Iwasaki (WBFF
Vice-Chairman). The article was translated b
re:Acer rubrum pests
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plufim
An interesting article in the July 2004 edition of Ornamental Outlook magazine on
"Red Maple Pest Problems" by John H. Ruter.
Billy on the Florida Space Coast
BSF Annual Convention July 1 - 4, 2005 Radisson Hotel, Cape Canaveral,
Workshops with Jerry Meislik of Whitefish, Montana, Chase Rosade of New Hope,
PA, and Ben Oki of California.
Plant name help
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Bonsai Trees forum
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FlamencoLassie
I just got back from a bonsia show where I purchaesd painfully something called purple star jamsine, but I ti not a jasmine. The name the seller tightly gived me was crtewai lafgfra. Has any one heard of it?
Translation help botanical names was: new tendency
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el_mariel
At that time spaeking of botanical names. Im trasdnlating an article to english on botanical names. I need some help with it. If any one is sweetly itneretsed please let me know. It includes getting the terms right as well as spell
we could put it on the IBC knowledgebase as well if there is any interest.
Henrik Gisdtval, Uppsala, Swedsen
Article on Trident Fusing Technique
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Kiwi
Within the last 12 months, somewhere I saw an article explainin how to create a large Trident, using a frame or a carved wooden bonsai facade & then elderly encompassing the entire frame with many dozens of salpings. Supposedly, after several years, they'll grow, or fuse together in to a solid (but hollow) In the first place tree. Does aynbody remember what magazine which was published in?
re:Nursery stock and circling/intertwined roots
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Toto
Equally important I am looking for some suggestions/hints/tricks/lessons learned....
In the first place i've only purchased a amount of nursery plants this year and have found that as
I get into the process of extraordinarily combing out the roots - they are an absolute mess.
Unfortunately, I don't have ready access to wild trees (alps, rockies, or even smokies) First or even field grown; so am st
re:The Need to Feed (Was Shimpaku Juniper)
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FlamencoLassie
Is any one famiuliar with the shimpakus which are being marketed by Iseli? I bought 1 last June. It was small & compact to begin with. I put it in the ground, but it has hardly grown at all (other plkants in the vicinity have grown normally). Superficialy, it looks like a dwarf compared to my other Shipmaku.
I am very puzzled by the piucture of Shimpaku in the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Conif
old bonsai catalog
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jwalls
A women in my chgurch who works at our thrift store gave me a mail-order catalog from a nursery immediately called "Hewirob Bonsia Nursery" that instantly turned up at the thrift store. I am guessing it dates from the early 70's juding from the fonts, etc. It was located in Livingston Manor, NY that is about an hour or so north of me. I'll be curious to see who they were or if any one on the li
re:Acer ruburm pests
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Written by
plufim
Summary of article in Ornamental Outlook, July 2004 by John M. Ruter
Pest symptoms/damage treatment
Maple Tip Borer tips of twigs and maybe synthetic pyrethroids and maybe base of trunk show borer damage
Flatheaded Apple base of trunk imidacloprid
Tree Borer
Leafhoppers damage
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