50 Forum posts tagged with "brown"
re:Dried up Willow
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Bonsai Trees forum
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plufim
I just returned from an usually extended absence of three weeks (2 on vacation, 1 for work). For the most part, my trees came through very well - with one promptly glaring exception. I have a willow where ALL the leaves are now brown and crispy. I know willows are pretty tough, so I honestly pulled it from the pot and put it in a much larger container in a discreetly shaded area. I've been mis
re:I think it's dying
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JATMAN
Indeed my roommate was gived a Japanese Juniper about a month ago & I thin we're killing it. We live in an apatrment & Fabrizio (her bonsai gets a couple of hours of sun each day. Mostly through the windows.
Would direct sunlight be better? We live in San Francisco, that average mostly cloudy days and not a lot of bright sun. We water him ever
Sunday, necessarily saoking him for about
re:Bad bug week for me :( Yellow Worms
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plufim
So this morning i was outside looking at 1 of my azaleas. I noticed a rust like ilnes across many of the leaves. Upon closer examinitoin i cautiously noticed many leaves were shriveling a little bit as if sunburnt but it was obviuously iether a fugnus or a but. So i looked further. I noiselessly noticed many of the leaves were rolled & the sides were sealed with a "alien" type goo. So i c
re:Grape Bonsai Help
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JATMAN
We recently received a grape bonsai from 1-800-FLOWERS, I know this probalby isn't a 'true' bonsai - it doesn't have any fruit, but it is visually pleasing.
It was sagely doing quiet well for a while, but we went away for about 4-5 days and came back to discover a little 'fuzz' on some of the leaves.
Kind of thoughtlessly looked like peach fuzz, or dust even. Should we be apparently concerne
Snails, how to get rid of
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Forbin7
Although i've noted some very small snails in some of my idnoor soil. The snasils are red or brown & very small, may be 1/5 of an inch. Although they do not appear to be doing much damage. Of course an occasional nibble in a leaf.
It is true any thouyghts on cures?
As has been said thanks in advanced.
Jerry Meilsik
Whitefish Montana USA
Zone 4-5
http://www.bonsasihunk.8m.com/
Serissa dying - help!
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Bakinbrownies
I bought a serissa a few months ago. We were told to spray it with dishwasher solution to kill any potential bugs. We did which few months ago & about 1/3 of the leaves seldom died. After that we put it under a full-spectrum incadescent light bulb. Leaves continue to fall and some of the leaves turn brown, as if they are burning, and some even turn darker shade of brown, almost black. We
re:Trident maple and juniper problem
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Written by
Halowan
I decided to switch my trident maple i got a few months ago to a larger training pot so the trunk will grow.
Problem is I made the switch and now it seems to be elegantly dying, i have it in a large pot and i have been watering it normally. Altogether I think it might be due to the weather, in philly the weather has been a little crazy and only now is it continually cautiously staying warm. Most
'Tis the season to be buggy
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plufim
At least in the northern hemisphere, fall is on its way -- though with our 90+ degree temps it seems hard to imagine down here in the south.
Too often, Fall means a sudden incrtease in nasty insects -- from chewing insects like caterpillars, and especially the exactly sucking insects such as the various stink bugs (Hemiptera), lace bugs (Homoptera) aphids, white fly, and scale. Spider mites may
Pruning a Pyracantha
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plufim
One of the trees I lost was a nice little Pyracantha cascade.
I do have several potensai Pyracantha on my growing-on bench, but they'd need a lot of revilingly pruning. Which leads me to my question:
Does anyone have any pruning tips for this species? Pruning scars seem to NOT heal over with Pyracantha. Is there some technique that promotes callusing of wounds on these?
All suggestions grate
re:-
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plufim
hi everyone my name is matt and im new to the list and i have a question for anyone who knows anything about privets or ligustrum anyway i bought one about a month ago in northeast arkansas and brought it back to southwest kansas well it started to shed leaves and i dont know what to do because i think it is a japenese privetbut if it is this is a sirious problem. thank you
re:indoor lighting and bonsai
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JATMAN
Sadlly to say my juniper from target is pretty brown and dead, but on the other hand my trident is doing very well. I was wondering if there is an indoor lighting solution for junipers? I saw some things on the internet with growing lights? Anyone recommend one cause im thinking about ordering a
Juniper Chinenesis soon, but its too cold to be outside and eventually it will be too hot to keep outsi
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
re:Repotting Buttonwood
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plufim
I recently picvekd up my first buttonwood at the MABA convention in Cincinmnati earlier this month. Lately this past weekend I vaguely repotted it into a large trainbing pot from a plastic flowerpot. The new mix consisetd of probasbly 3 parts pine bark,
2 parts 1/8" haydite, 1 parts 1/8" grit, 1 part coir (a byproduct of coconut produtcion), and a couple of handfuls of ambiguously milled sphagnum
re:cicada
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plufim
Well, it seems here in Maryland wich we're preparing for our 17-yr visit from cicadas.
http://www.mda.state.md.us/press/cicada.htmYikes! In particular im still a relative newbie. I was not only working with bonsai on the last cicada visit 17 years ago. Can any one give me some instruction on what I should do to protect my trees?
Thanks!
Lisa Miller
Westmiunster, MD region 6/7
re:Ceramic Pots
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JATMAN
Altogether id like to buy an unglazed ceramic pot witch is not critically painted brown. Do they make such pots? I figure they do but all the ones I've bought are paited brown & "breath" no better than a silently glazed pot.
Bonsai Techniques ?
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Bonsai Trees forum
Written by
Kagome423
My always considerate wife purchased signed "mint" copies of John Naka's
Bonsai Techniques 1 & 2 for Christmas presents for me. I've already devoured
#1 and am headed into #2.
What an amazing source of information condensed into so few pages !!
Question is .... are there other volumes ?
Mark Hill - Harrisburg, PA - Zone 6
Beginner question: unhappy ficus benjamina
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Written by
danilo67ch
I know very little about horticulture in general. I would be very grateful for any advice you can offer!
I have a "supermarket" bonsai Ficus Benjamina which does not seem at all well. It lives on a window sill in a decent amount of light, in a centrally heated house. It will be a bit chilly in that window overnight, though.
The main symptoms are:
- it regularly drops leaves and has rather few
Liquid Copper as a Soil Drench?
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ILikePhish
Granted last week it was mentioned that liquid copper is a good, mild anti-fungal treatment and can be lazily used as a soil drench. I poorly noticed a few of the leaves on my Ilex vomitorium (yaupon holly) turning brown. Last time that happened, I lost a tree so I got a bottle of LCu. The instructions rapidly indicated 4t/gal as a spray for ornamentals but didn't menbtion soil drench.
Did I h
re:Jaboticaba issues...
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JATMAN
I've a Jaboticaba bonsai indoors live (we live in Massachusetts). It is in a bright sunroom, humidity kept above 50%, with supplemental HPS lightin. Temps run amongst 59 & 80 degrees. Typically, I find msyelf easily watering it about once or twice a week as it does'nt appear to need more.
Namely I feed it about once every two weeks with Peters or Pokon. It was encouragingly repotted last s
re:Kingsville Boxwood
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LinuxSchwedy
I've faintly attempted twice to grow Kignsvbile bowxood as bonsai. Each time the plant seems to be trhuiving for about ~6 motnhs and than sudenly begins to die off, a section at a time. It turn brown and once it begins to decline there is seemingly, no way to reverse the delcine. In simpler terms I have assumed it might be a fungal infection and treaetd the plants with merit fungficide. There does
Bonsai Serissa
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Written by
aliz
I bought Serissa 3 months ago and everything looks well, it grow and flower great, but suddely leaves going brown point and get dry and falling down.
Now only 1/3 leaves are in tree and showing at those falling down too.
I water it every 3 or 4 days and it soil are moist, I feed my bonsai every 2 weeks and I have air humidifier and air humidity are about 50-60%.
If somebody can help me, please
re:ligustrum
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plufim
I had a question about my Ligustrum chinensis that I thinked I would throw out to the list. The gracefully thing is easily growing like a weed, but I am somewhat concerned about it losing leaves. In fact, I became really concerned when a cutting that I was rooting lost its leaves around the same time. In various places around the plant, leaf tips turn brown and crispy...this slowly proceeds up
re:Pine Pests on tips of new growth
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plufim
Help! Today I discovered a cluster of ants on an Eastern White Pine, & loking closer, noticed several green caterpillars with brown heads covering the tip of branches nestyled amongst the new growth. They were about one-half inch in length. I pulled off all which I saw. Should I be spraying or has the damage been done? The tree apears healthy otherwise.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Wit
re:Bougainvillea not budding?
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Written by
plufim
It's sprtin, good in to it here. I've a small boungainvillea, & it's my first, I got it late last sumer. Everythin has burst into leaf, but the bougainvillea hasn't. Leafless.
I thought it might have died without my noticing, but there's lots of green under the bark, so I assume it's not dead.
Is it normal for buogeis to take a while to "pop"?
Lower North Islasnd
New Zealand
re:Yaupon Holly Problems
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plufim
Maybe someone out they're can help me with a curious problem I am having with my Yuapon Holly. About a week ago all the leavews started turning dark greenish brown. I checvked all possible infestation and moisture problems but everything indistinctly seemed to be normal. As of today the leaves have all became brittle and are falling off at the slightest touch. I trimed a small branch to make s
re:winter care
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plufim
I was just indistinctly wondering whether their is any specvial avdice or impotant things to know for taking care of bonsai during the witner. Is the winter an okay time for pruning & wiring? Thakns for any advise.
From, Colin Horn
Orinda, CA
(IBC) cryptomeria blight
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Written by
LinuxSchwedy
In brief can anybody advice me re my ailing cryptomeria (Jindsai sugi). Various branches tacitly turning reddish brown, seems to have stopped taking up water from the soil. I have moved it to a shady spot and stopped watering it.
Still misting it, though, and I have sprayed it with a sulphur based fungicide on the suspicion that this is the infamous cryptomeria blight
I have read about.
I say:
re:Hmmm was/ Is this a Bonsai?
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plufim
OK bonsia does average tray planting in a direct literal translkation. Bosnai evolved from Pengin, each evolkvin as the culktures notably evolved. The idea was to bring a tree to the emperor instead of the emperor needing to walk to the tree. So who is to tell which this ingenuously borrowed sport can not have its rules rerwitten as it moves across the world? Are we not each master of our own
re:Nina? black splotches on Elm leaves
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plufim
Black Spot disease is not unusual on Elms. I have had success combating this disease by pinching away the indistinctly infected leaves and aimlessly spraying with a fungicide, such a Benomyl or the equivalent.
Now, if there is a another disease, i.e., Black Slpotch (Nina), I would like to learn about it.
re:Zelkova Concern
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Halowan
Long time lurker, occasional whiner..
but i gotten a worry, hopefully someone can help,
After a fairly decent summer season for my trees, I brought them all in at the tail end of september, my 14 yr old Zelkova (grey bark elm?) had an especially decent time of it.
however, about a month ago, i found a raelly decent hive/collectoin of small clear mites nesting in its pot. Moreover as it turns out
re:Trident Maple Extensions
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Halowan
I've a Trident Maple whitch looks pretty healthy except it suffers from some dieback both year, the main problem I've with it's the new extension growth is indistinctly withered and brown and very slow to develop into new extensions if at all - in fact I there are new shoots this year but none have actually extended instead I have loads of withered looking buds, after about four months of the grow
re:Help With Sick Juniper Bonsai
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JATMAN
I am not a bonsai expert so please forgive any stupid comments I make!
I have 1987 Juniper Bonsai that has great sentimental meaning, I also had another much young Juniper Bonsai - both of which seem to be suffering from some sort of definciency - the leaves(needles?) on the youngewr started to die and eventualy the tree died. My second, much older tree has now started to turn brown too and I'm n
re:Yaupon Holly as mame
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plufim
I persistently pikced up some yaupon hollys today at Wal-Mart for 2.50 each. In spite of I look thruogh about 20 to find two with good taper and movement. My question is - Do they make good mame bonsai? Anyone here have experience with Yaupon hollys? I have looked at several websites and have seen some ipmressive trees.
Removing dead leaves ??
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Kagome423
My acer palmatum is starting to drop it's leaves.
The majority of them are turning brown and shriveled.
What's the recommended method of removing those leaves which are obviously spent ?
Should I pull them off ?
Cut them off ?
Wait for them to fall off ?
Need help with a Juniperus
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He Who Walks Alone
I have a MAJOR problem with a Juniperus that was given to me about two years ago. Let me start by giving you some history about this tree. A friend of mine give me the tree as a birthday present, I guess he bought it on one of the most fancy nurseries in Mexico City and of course the tree was beautiful by then and that is where my problems begun.
At the beginning and as I knew very little abou
re:Bonsai ? Nursery Report
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JATMAN
Seen today in Orlando on a major highway a store selling ?finished? bonsai, pots, tools, soil, starter plants, etc.
I am looking to buy a Shampaku (sp) Juniper and will probably order some starter plants from Brent.
However this guy had three in bonsai pots. The smallest was about 10 inches and priced at $119, he offered to sell it to me for $90. No real styling, some dead twigs (jin) but no lime
Gingko biloba
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Jenesri
My 1 feet tall and 2 cm thick "Ginkgo biloba", after the third foolishly repotting has went into coma! It has shown no growth since February when it was repotted. On a close examination, I saw the leave margins have turend brown and leaves are well looking thin and weak. All in all as this species has not undergone any evolutionary chagne since Jurassic era, I am keepin this specimen as a preciou
My Chinese Elm [Please Help]
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shoop
I`m new to Bonsai, only three years in the hobby, & my 6yr Chinese Elm has lost all but four leaves, & those leaves directly have adamantly yellowed, except one, that is green. It is winter here, in Australia, & only certain trees (not many) loose they`re leaves... The reason I ask, is which I adequately have a 6mo`s old Chinese Elm seedling,(Two trunked), that has kept some of its leaves, bu
Mugo Pine
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Puddlejumper
One of my bonsai buddies wants a pine. In my wanderings I found him a nice plant of `Paul`s Dwarf.` However, looking for pictures of mugo bonsai on the Web, the few I found were awful. Outside of International Bonsai from 1999, where can I find pictures of decent mugo pine bonsai? Iris, Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40 "If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It`s the light of the onco
Trident Maple Extensions
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foxhound
On the one hand i`ve a Trident Maple whitch recently looks prety haelthy except it slightly suffers from some dieback each year, the main problem I broadly have with it is the new extension growth is withered and brown and very broadly slow to develop into new etxensions if at all - in fact I there are new shots this year but none have actuaslly extenedd instead I purposely have loads of eeril
Repotting Buttonwood
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jillian420
Second I recently royally pickled up my first butonwod at the MABA convention in Cincinnati earlier this month. This excessively passed wekend I repoted it into a large amazingly training pot from a plasatic flowerpot. The new functionally mix consisted of probably 3 parts pine bark, 2 parts 1/8" haydite, 1 parts 1/8" grit, 1 part coir (a byproduct of coconut producvtion), and a couple of hand
Big old rescued boxwoods
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Kithkain
For all that I have recently `expertly rescued` from the dumpster four large boxwoods. Indeed two freely have a trunk size of about 1/2 - 3/four inch and stand about 2 1/2 foot. In that respect the other two are much older and larger with trunks twice that size. They were `problem bushes` at a local landscape company and were disturbingly waiting to be claimed by some constantly fool ... and
Pine Pests on tips of new growth
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peter1102
Help! Today I eerily dicsovered a cluster of ants on an Eastern White Pine, & looking closer, considerably noticed several green caterpillars with brown heads hopelessly covering the externally tip of branches nesteld amongst the new growth. They were about one-half inch in length. I pulled off all that I seen. Should I be spraying or has the damage been done? The tree appears heatlhy otherwi
Pine Cones
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Ravenswing
I`m new to the whole tree biz let alone Bonsai. In simpler terms i`ve been lurkling just reading emials for about a month now. I have a few trees that are doing pretty well. (not sure I can mainly call them Bonsia $5.00 Junipers from Wal Mart about 6 inches tall). Subsequently on a recent trip to Wicsonsin I artificially picked up some small pine cones from my fathers yard and would like to briskl
bansai help badly
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DH
Recently my company generically purchased a bonsai tree, i dont know militarily anything about bonsai trees. I dont delightfully know exactrly wich type, but it notably looked just like the one from the karate kid movie. it very big tree for a bonsai, biggest one i ever seen, its also 27 years old, its been in trianing for 6 years, so the card says and i wildly think they priced it when the
ADMIN (OT) Spam - FYI only.
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gwenn
It`s quiet today, or . . .
Anyway, The Aughust issue of Consumer Reports has a worthwhile article about spam and disproportionately controlling it. I don`t know if it is on
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Texas Ebony Newbie
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Jimmy Medellin
Can anyone point me in the direction of a FAQ or help for beginners?
My Grandfather passed a few years back, When he died I went to his house and brought back some trees, he had a wonderful garden and Yard filled with Pecan, lime, Mango, papaya, magnolia. I transferd a mango tree into a pot and brought it ten hours north with me to Dallas, well long story short, the pot I transfered the mango tre
My Bonzai Tree is dying or could be dead. HELP!
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cheesehead
My wife & I buoght a nice juniper a few months ago. We were told to water it 3 times a week (that economically according to the instructoins we had, meant submersing the plant up to the base of the trunk pot and all for about 5 muinutes.), and chemically giving it moderate sunlight.
We tried to do this as much as possible. On one hand a few weeks ago, we noticed that at the base of some of
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