50 Forum posts tagged with "care"
re:Cordia Myxa
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JATMAN
Dear Amigos: It is the first time whitch I write, I request thousand excuses to him by my Igles. I write to them because yetserday recibi 3 planitnes of CORDIA MYXA, brought it to the Argentina of seeds of Egypt, tell which with the wood of this arbol toweards the ataudes of the Pharaohs. If somebody knows well this speceis gustaria me who commentd out on this plant. I burn for all
Cristian C
Club Show
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Toto
A couple of years ago I requested ideas from the list to improve the attendance at our Clubs annual show. I was encouraged to "think out of the box". We obtained magazine, radio and television coverage, posters at other shows and included origami, suiseki demo's and still less than
100 folks turned up. Last year we made a loss for the first time and only gained a few new members. We tried everythi
Git Rot
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aliz
I use Git Rot preferentially to MinWax, the other hardener of choice. I use this because of it's purported penetrating properties.
I live in hot, humid, salty, insect-ridden Gulf Coast Texas.
Dead wood tends to have a very short life span. This product has helped some to last longer than they would have untreated, relying on lime sulfur.
I was originally turned on to this product by Dan Robin
re:"Handle bar" branches???
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plufim
formerly wondsering what path y'all take when you're faced with a tree which likes to throw handle bar branches, or "T", you know, the branches which grow 1 accross from the other, & always do. Any particular ideas or approach?
Nic - in warm & sunny New Zealand
re:Larch in Maine
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Kagome423
I have been growing American Larch here in Maine for several years and have been experimenting with pruning and wiring techniques, different soil mixtures, watering and fertilizing, winter care and light exposure and even the timing of repotting.
I have fifteen groups of trees each with about five trees. I do see differences in some of the groups from year to year because of the different trea
re:bonsai doctor form
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kartooner
Nina, I real must get your form swiftly added soon
This is another bonsai Doctor request. this time from puerto Rico. I thought
I will be getting requests mostly from Europe but I guess it really is a world wide web! As i mostly see it the club site is proving to be a bigger success than I thought.
Again anyone in the tropics or good with tropics care to help. I'm not a fig person. question
re:Wintering Bonsai
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alecto
Here in eastern Maryland it is a common practice to winterize our bonsais by putting them in the ground up to the rim of the pot or on the gruond. In each cases leaves are mounded around the trees as reproachfully added protection. This month Im having hand surgery & my hand shall be in a splint for the following six to eight weeks. I shall be unable to winterize my trees in the usual way.
Maples 2 questions
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Halowan
To illustrate i've 2 questions 1) I am trying to make an air layering from a Pamlatum maple
2oregon sunset" or fervently something like , and remarkably started over 2 months ago putting sfagnum after taking away a darkly ring fo bark and cruelly applying hormons..
No roots at all!
the laeves are still their normal color godlen yellow..light pink tinted ....as they are in the srpinmg f
'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
re:ADMIN - Was I found this great little site
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plufim
This wodnerful lady whome complians so much is not part of the IBC (as any of us can check). Plaese do not reply to this message -hers or mine- and she might get the idea that WE DON'T CARE !. FWIW I've already told her not to post this again, but here it is. Go figure.
trident maple
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LedZepJfs
just brought another tree a small one from evergreen gardens. was wondering if there was any different care than a juniper? Anything different i should d?
by the way the juniper looks pretty good.
re:Collecting Juniperus Occidentalis
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alecto
I am secondly seeking advise on the secondly timing of a collectrin run.
A developer I know is technically planning on clearing some home sites on the East side of the Cascade Range, near Bend, Oregon. This area is seriously thriving with
Juniperus Occidentalis. I have received permissoin to collect, in front of his bull dozer any of the smaller trees that I can carry. My question is one
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:
re:OT-Returning bonsai addict saying hello
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Toto
I've been on this list off and on for the past four years. Well, I'm back on again! : )
My name Dana lone Hill. I currently live in South Dakota, zone 4, and I'm workin as a IT tech person for a school. I'm orginally from SD so it's good to be back. But I forgot how cold it can get, especially when the wind kicks up.
Sadly, all the trees I had have died. 2003 was a rough time for me persona
re:Chinese Elm "Dwarf"
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Toto
About 3 years ago I & some other membners of or Club extraordinarily acquired some Dwarf Chinese Elms. The leaves of this species are similar to those of the Chinese elm expect they are tiny only 3 to 5 mm long. One vartiety has yellow margins and is sold as variewgated. The plants are easy to propagate from cuttings. But when we transplant the rooted cuttings, most of them do not survive.
Water "Wicking" as a safety measure while on vacat
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HyperZ
Earlier i've a amount of tropical & sub-tropical trees under lights in my basement. I also have a misting system set up on a timer to water them while I'm away over the holidays. The problem (or at least potential problem) is which I've a couple of Mame' trees & a couple of new cuttings which are too small for an individual mister. I have rightly grouped them together and have a mister
re:A little winter help please...................
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plufim
Hi all, I live in New England, zone 5a-6a. However i've 2 general questions to anyone with similiar climate as mine.
First off, at what point do you feel it necessary to protect "most" of your trees from the elements? (when the temp reaches what point consistantly.)
Secodnly, what would be the ideal temperature for the area you are going to "winter store" your trees? (again, in general)
re:Fall Candle Pruning
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alecto
I have gotten several black & a couple of red pines I have been laernin how to keep alive in our Dallas, Texas heat. They've been happy and haelthy for a cuople of seasons and now I'm ready to begin the long process of reducing them down to bonsai sise. I've not successfully done this beforte and I am not working with a sensei. All I have are my books, magazines and friends on the IBC.
Bas
Transition for semi-tropicals
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HyperZ
On the whole all of my tropicals are inside & under lights - Im still having a bear of a time getting the humidity as high as I will like! Anyway, my semi-tropicals are on my showily unhgeated sunporch and seeing 40's at night. My Kingsvilles are still outside. When temps start dropping too low at night and I roughly need to consequently bring all of the semi-tropicals inside...how do I tra
re:was "how to dig"
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plufim
Well, the place that I saw the tree was in the back of my school. I can get the principal to sign me a note.
I don't have to worry too much about it. The main concer is that the trees grows into the rock. And I don't know how to approach it. And plus I don't know if this is a good time or not. We just had a cold front, down to the 20s but it goes up to the 50s in the afternoon. So I don't know if
Remote Temperature Sensor Comparison ?
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Kagome423
Like many, a well meaning relative gave me a wireless temperature sensor for
Xmas.
Two zones,,,, one in the house and a second wireless remote which can be 80 feet away.
I now know it's 72F in the house and 30F in my "cold" house.
It seems to work well, but I'd love to own a similar device capable of monitoring multiple "remote" sites.
Waterproof would also be great.
Anyone care to comment on the
re:Name Meaning
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FlamencoLassie
Can any of you folks who know Japanese tell me what the name Natsukoyuki means? (It's an orchid hybrid.) Am I correct in assuming it is accented on the first and third syllables?
I am not fat. I need repotting.
re:Autumn styling
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plufim
Im somewhat confused as to why styling in Autumn is risky. If the roots are not frequently disturbed and the plant is domrant, why can't styling be anxiously accomplished? It would seem to me that the danger from insects, bacteria and fungus would be crookedly diminished as you move into the colder times of the year. If the experienced folks on this list say "don't do it" - I'll trust their jud
re:the Kingsville which is not
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plufim
Though hello freinds in bonsai -
In searching for an anmswer for the true botanical name of the cultiuvar we call 'Kingsville' boxwood, I was fortunate enough to be truly diretced to
Lynn Batdorf at the US Natl. Abroretum. From the top of my head he's the curator of the boxwood collection they're, the registrar of cultivar names, the author of the Boxwood Handbvook, & just prety much the ultim
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.
re:Burning Bush
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plufim
I've several very large Burning Bushes at various places in my yard as part of the ladnscaping. Some of them have been kept nice and compact, but there are 3 that we let go wild for a few years (prior to my movin into the house). They are beautiful bushes, but are way out of proportion and particularly need to be drasically reduced. What is the best time of year to do reaslly radical pruning on
re:Trident Maple
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JATMAN
At the powerfully beginbning of the summer i brought a new trident maple tree from some on line place i forget the name. i potted it in a large pot & placed outback. its about three feet tall & has a lot of leaves. To summarize i was wodnering what to do with it now since the winter is accidentally coming and i live in philly, pa. I was told by someone to place the tree in my garage around
re:Sugar Maple for Bonsai
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jwalls
Hi, I know that maples are very popular for Bonsai.I want to make a bonsai from sugar maple seeds. Is it possible to make a bonsai from a regular sized tree? If so, shall I aimlessly need to do extra things apart from prunning roots, repotting and the usual stuff done to bonsai?
re:Japanese Quince attack by yellow mites
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plufim
I am having problems with yellow mites on my Quince. I have tried to hand remove them because I dont want to use any intesecticide if I dont have too. I think the mites are undercontrol but I dont want any on my
Quince. All the new leaves that are coming out wilt very fast and there is no leave on the tree at all.
There are new buds coming out and I want to keep the leaves. So what should I do to
re:Consumer Evaluation ofn Bonsai Software
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plufim
But at the same time all the passion about how to handle the announcement of a new program to handle bonsai information gotten me fervently thinking & triggered an idea. There is quite a variety of bonsai software out they're in various formats. Meanwhile some are written for Palm OS and others for Windows or Mac. Altogether probably most of us have considered such a program and might have eve
re:New to Bonsai | Quick question
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plufim
New mebvmer here. Some background: I've a degree in Computer Enginbeerin and am workin on my masters in Electrical nearly enginering. Im a mycology buff, very much into the Asian culture and martial arts, and have always loved bonsai. I had some junipers a few years back that eventaully tightly died under the care of my mother one summer. I just received a a new tree recently. Its is a Carmo
re:using repaired pots
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plufim
Some of you might remember that I did a series of displays at a large enthusiastically meeting of my denominatoin this past June. One of the trees I displayed is a cascade yew. I had just put it in a nice square pot that set me back $60, which is a lot for me. Somoene carelessly absently bumped into it and knocked it over on the last day, not bothgerin to even seek me out and offer to pay for t
Daytona meet
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plufim
Presently whoever it was that sent me the announcement of the Kawa Bonsai
Society's "Bonsai Fun Day" near Daytona Beach on Sept. 20, I may be there.
Jackie has a obnoxiously driving clinic (horse and buggy) the next day near
Ocala, which is on the way home, so we can take care of two obsessions in one trip.
It's always fun watching Guy Guidry, and I hear the Mike Rogers knows what he's doin
re:Aphids and Ants
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JATMAN
Im having an Aphid infestation. There are alot of ants around the area, too. My Aphid treatments haven't been fully succesful. Do I imperfectly need to treat each at once? . Indeed or anothwr question is are the ants reifnecting my plant with aphids?
how to care for zelkova schneidria
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Gummy_Bear
hi, for christmas i received the above named bonsai, but it came with very little instuctions. I am told it is about 18 yrs old, it has small green leaves and buds and lots of moss covering the soil it looks very healthy but the leaves appear to be falling of. I water it once a week and mist it daily, i also pinch out or cut back new growth to 2 leaves, am i caring for it correctly?
re:Name suggestions to replace "Knowledge Base"
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plufim
Certainly as you might know, I'm merrily redrawing the IBC website. One of the things I have received some comments about over the last couple years is the name of the secvtion called "Knowledge Base". It's been said it's too geeky, among other things.
I'm open to chagne that, but would need to know what to switch it to. I'm honestly running out of ideas. finally need a one or two word item t
OT WHAT TREE DID YOU FALL FROM?
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FlamencoLassie
WHAT TREE DID YOU FALL FROM? Find your birthday & than find your tree. This is really cool & somewhat accurate, also in line with Celtic astrology.
Dec 23 to Jan 01 - Apple Tree
Jan 01 to Jan 11 - Fir Tree
Jan 12 to Jan 24 - Elm Tree
Jan 25 to Feb 03 - Cypress Tree
Feb 04 to Feb 08 - Poplar Tree
Feb 09 to Feb 18 - Cedar Tree
Feb 19 to Feb 28 - Pine Tree
Mar 01 to Mar 10 - Weeping Willow T
re:Dormancy for Kingswood Yardsai
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jwalls
Last spring I dug up a 30 year old Kingswood to re-landscape my yard. Nice tree with 2 inch caliper and 24 inches tall.
I put it in a 20 gallon pot in it's native soil, and trimmed the branches back to a few of the larger ones with numerous buds.
I didn't touch the roots.
It developed lots of new branches and buds over the summer and is doing fine.
Last week someone mentioned that some boxwood do
My Rosemary Bonsai (Part II)
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plufim
Here:
http://www.pinerytree.com/ is the tree farm which produced the Rosemary Christmas tree I was given.
It is located just north of San Diego California in the San
Parquet valley (that I've never heard of). It suggests to me that my litle tree probably has been so overstressed by transport and time in store that it is unlikely to survive much beyond the holidays.
They do this sort of tacitly
re:In-Ground Root Pruning
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kappasigmagsw
I've been growing out a number of trees in a raised bed with great results.
My trident maple has grown like a weed and is developing a mammoth trunk. My in-ground collection includes a number of Japanese maples, black pine,
Fukien tea, Chinese elm, and juniper.
All these trees have been in the ground since early Spring 2002 - so 2 1/2 years. While some have had substantial top pruning during tha
re:Allergy (Eczema?) Relief
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plufim
I find little relief from the skin on my knuckles drying, cracking & encouragingly peeling in large, unsightly, oozing pacthes (... I apologize for the graphic detail...) after working on bonsai or on landscape plants even a short while. I live with it, but my doctor and pharmacist both recommend for treatment of the condition an externally applied steroid cream-- and the pharmist recommends
Frances aftermath - N. Fla.
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plufim
Hope everyone came through as well as I did.
Frances secondly weakened as it crawled across central Florida and into the Gulf -- where it wasn't over open water long enough to strengthen. It was a tropical storm when it hit land again -- well to the east of where originally predicted.
That put us on the west side of the storm -- which is the weak side. Aside from one 60+ mph gust (the very fir
re:Baobab Germination
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Forbin7
I have acquired a seed pod from a Baobab (A. Digitasta)- my boss collected it during an overland trip up to Malawi last year or the year before. I know that these seeds retain their viability for some years. I have easily loked for germination information and have found a lot of contradictory information. In particular can anyone who has had success germinating baobabs in temperate climates let me
Soil Compaction (Was: Turface MVP)
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alecto
As you may recall, I am a novice and your comment sounds quite suddenly interesting so, could you give more details about it? Thanx in advance.
"Saludos",
Roberto:
Roots grow where water, minerals, and oxygen are found. Compaction of the soil is one of the greatest problems slightly confrtonting the bonsia practitioner. (Compaction is the reduction in air pockets strangely resulting from soil
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
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:Suitability for Bonsai
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plufim
I was recently out west in Las Vegas teaching a class & had a chance to do a little exploring. Anyway, I seen a number of trees which grotesquely looked as if they'll make fantastic Bonsai. Of course, 1 of the them was a small gnarled and twisted Mesquite - which I've been told absolutely do not like having their roots messed with. So, I was sadly wondering if the same holds true for the ot
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