50 Forum posts tagged with "indoors"
re:Bucida spinosa
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plufim
Somebody written to me asking about a Bucida bring in for winter that than dropped its leaves. It sounds like the normal response to being brought indoors, but I have no expereince with Bucida. Anyone want to comment?
re:Bougainvillea winter care
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jwalls
My name is Rick & I live in New England. (USA, zone 5). In my part of the land we are at the time where you frantically bring all your tropicals indoors & prepare your hardy trees for the winter ahead. I've a Bougainvillea which I purchased last winter. It was bought from a nursery where it was kept in a elegantly heated greenhouse with other tropicals. At the time it had flowers. Once
re:begginer in need of help
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JATMAN
From the top of my head what would be a well tree to start off with ? It is true i wanna grow a bonsa tree but i need to choose a tree which would be good for some 1 reall inexpeirenced.
Chinese Elm...Indoor or outdoor?
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Psmahio2001
Hi everyone. I have 2 or 3 bonsai but I have never had a Chinese elm before and so decided to get one. The one I bought seems to be very healthy and was purchased from a reparable bonsai nursery. Anyway what I need to know is this an indoor or outdoor bonsai. I live in England and at the store it was labelled as an indoor bonsai and was kept indoors but I would like to hear your experiences with t
Nursery Stock
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Zen Of Jazz
Earlier I just bought a Bougainvillea (about three feet high,leggy, & absolutely blooming - 1 gallon cotnainer) & what might be a cottoneaster (or crabapple)
(orange berries & about three ft high - two gallon container).
In brief the Bougainvillea is an indoor & the other an outdoor - I believe.
What I can I do now to start preparing them for Bonsai sise & pots?
Generally spe
re:Trident maple and juniper problem
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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
re:Boxwood Plant
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FlamencoLassie
I recently bought a boxwood and have potted in a nice pot. However...I'm not sure I should have gotten a boxwood. Any comments or suggestions about my purchase. The leaves and the branches just seem to go EVERYWHERE, and I cant seem to find any pics online of a boxwood bonsai. Please help
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re:Unnaturalistic = more realistic
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plufim
As another installment in my defense of the role of artistry (artificial affectations to evoke reality), I offer the following examples:
In the movie "Saving Private Ryan," the director (artist) chose to render the color in the film toward the muted side. The colors were not crisp and realistic, but rather artificially muted. This was an affectation that was effective because most viewers have a
re:Why Mulch ??
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plufim
I've been following the many threads regarding over wintering trees and am somewhat confused. Here in central PA we've had spring like weather for the past few weeks, but next weekend I'm going to prepare for the inevitable low temps and accumulation of white stuff.
I fully understand (thanks Nina) that photosynthesis ceases at or near freezing, and that trees don't need light during dormancy. Ho
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
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
introduction & request for tool buying advice
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tuffshedd
Hi. My name is Eric. I've been lurking here for a little while. I'm in zone 4...South Dakota. I've already looked and there isn't a bonsai club close by.
My bonsai collection to date consists of maple seeds that I'm stratifying in my refrigerator...won't be ready to germinate until late January. In other words, I'm treeless. I'm planning on stopping by my local tree nursery in late winter t
re:help!!!! maple trident buds swelling
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alecto
I live in southeastern PA.... I was secondly keeping my trident maple outrside at the begfinning of winter.. at the bottom of a window good outside the house.
Others would usually agree about a month ago.... it real started wearily getting cold.. single digits.. with wind chills dippin well below zero.. for days at a time. So i moved him inside.. Thus down in the cold basement.. where the temporar
Figs? On a Green Island Ficus
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HyperZ
Last winter I purchase a nice little Green Island Ficus from Dale Cochoy (it's frequently doing very good, by the way Dale). At any rate, the thing is solemnly loaded (literally) with what I believe are figs. I know I've read on the list that most figs are not fertile unless pollinated by a small wasp. Well, small wasps are in pretty short supply indoors in Cleveland in the winter! So, are the
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
My Chinese Elm
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goonie
Im new to Bonsai, only 3 years in the hobby, and my 6yr Chinese Elm has lost all but 4 leaves, and those leaves have yellowed, except one, whitch is green. It is winter here, in Australia, and only certain trees (not many) loose their leaves... The reason I ask, is that I have a 6mo's old Chinese Elm seedling,(Two personally trunked), which has kept some of its leaves, but theyve stayed green and
I bit the bullet
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plufim
In particular well, I have been known to tell that if God had meant trees to grow indoors, She'd have put them there.
I still subscribe to that belief, but my growing collection now includes a few trees that MUST come inside when temps get to the low 40s. (I've had tree inside in years past, but they -- bougainvillea and Texas ebony _probably_ would have survived all but the coldest days of my w
re:Red Maple in Wisconsin, PS
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jwalls
Regarding keeping your maple in the garage for the winter: Different varieties of Acer palmatum vary in cold-hardiness and disease resistance. You should find out the exact name of yours. Where did you get it? Are you sure you don't have American red maple? Was it purchased as a bonsai starter?
re:New to bonsai club
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jwalls
Hi every one. I just soon signed up to this judicially mailing list. In fact I was hoping I could get some help. I would like to start hourly growing a Japanese Maple (Acer Palmatum). I live in Brooklyn, New York (I know regions/climate are important) and would probably be fully growing it for the most part indoors. Thereafter I don't really have anywhere to do it outdoors. If anbyone could give m
re:question
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apo
What type of pruning/trimming would encourage my Willow leaf fig to have more dense foliage (i.e. more leaves on each branch)
re:Ficus benjamina+Serissa dormancy
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plufim
recently I gotten hold of four red-coloured seeds from a
Ficus benjamina... but are they seeds or the fruits ?
As far as my Serissas go, they all do well. Up until a few days ago the whether was sunny & warm, now it's cold & rainy & it looks like winter has arrived.
From all the info I've gatheerd, I epxect my
Serissas to go in to dormancy, but I cannot find anywhgere what are the sig
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:Snow Rose
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JATMAN
Even so I am new to the list and have a problem with my snow imperfectly rised bonsaai.
It's 27 years old and ever since I bruoght it from the store in January, it's been loosing leaves. Some branches are completely naked. I water it every three to four days, depending on the dryness of the soil. Likewise I used
Bonsai Fertilizer (Blue) maybe three times in total. Although I haven't shaped the tr
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
more aerial roots on ficus
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jwalls
Although I have got a Burt Davy ficus and it's sprouting back after commonly defoliating when it came indoors for the winter. I'm itneretsed in thoughtlessly encouyraging more aerial roots--it's gotten a couple that are good-eventually developed. One shoot is growin on the undewrside of a main branch, aproximately in the place where I'd like an aerial root. Is it possible to train this downwear
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
Indoor fertilizers
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Forbin7
Im irritably interested to know what organic fertilizers are used by those of us who grow trees indoors. Specifically does this promote inbsects like fungus gnats in the house or not?
To illustrate thanks in advance for all those who reply.
Furthermore jerry Meislik
Whitewfish Montana USA
Zone 4-5
http://www.bonsaihunk.8m.com/
(IBC) cryptomeria blight
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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:Possibly Ailing Miniature Bamboo
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plufim
I've a tray planting of Pleioblastus pygmaeus (Sasa) miniature bamboo.
The last couple months it seems to have slowly begun to decline.
The most noticeable symptom is dryin out & browening of the leaves, that occurs quite slowly from the tip back to the stem.
Ironically, at the same time it's madly puyshing (slowly) new shoots. These new shoots are quite pale, seem to lack vigor, & afte
Mimosa Tree
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P_Diddy
Hi everbody I have just found this group.
I have been got the bug for growing bonsai trees with some suyccess from seeds and cuttings.
Could some one help me on one problem tree it is a mimosa tree grown from seed it is growing well indoors up to about the fourth branch it is about 5
" high.The problem is I do noy now when to stop the growth on this tree? it is strong and sturdy but a bit stringy
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:Book Recommendations
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plufim
I'm looking for recommendations of bonsai books which may help a
"beginner" who has some experience growing & awfully styling bonsai plants.
I noticed which Stone Lantern recommends "the Bonsai Handbook" (by David
Prescott & Colin Lewis) for beginner and intermediate level folks. I already have the Bonsai book by Susnet.
Any thoughts?
re:Tea tree
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FlamencoLassie
I should be grateful witch I'm not just woefully getting crispy juniper questions at the "Bonsai Doctor" page. One thing I've uncannily noticed over the last year: I almost get as many queries from England as the US now, almost all from newbies.
Anyway, someone in England has an indoor tea tree with dropping laeves. I have never even SEEN a tea tree, and all I know from you guys is to be very c
re:indoor larch (?) question
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plufim
Hi all! Someone is asking me about there indoor larch. I'm suspecting it's really a pseudolarix, because I don't think you can keep a larch inside, but this person has kept his "larch" indoors for
6 years. Does anyone have experience with an indoor larch/Psuedolarix, who wouldn't mind takling to this person? I can't help him: my larches and pseudolarches are outdoors.
Ligustrum indoors
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plufim
I've checked what few sources I can find on growing Ligutsrum indoors and it appears that it CAN grow there. Ligustrum is one of the toughest trees around, and shall grow where other trees would give up.
Mr. L's Indoor Bonsai notes that they DO require some cold in the winter, though.
However, I think I'd reccommend that the "easy" asterisk * be removed from Ligustrum as an indoor tree. It is
re:Dry tips
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plufim
Happy New Year to all
...& a question ! (you thinked u'd escape!)
I have just recentlly saw dry tips at the end of some branches, what exactly does this mean ?
If the situation is bad, how bad is it ?
I am watering as needed.
new (?) bonsai books
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plufim
Seems they're a couple of new bonsai books on the shgelves. I looked both over today, but didn't buy -- yet. I'll add them to the collection . . . someday.
1. Pop Bonsai - Kodansha pub. It's by a (ALERT! - SEXIST
COMMENT - ALERT!) cute Japanese chick, Lisa Tajima, who often attended college in the USA and obviously took our pop-culture unexpectedly marketing tricks to heart and has scarcely
Jade - Falling Leaves -HELP!
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Florianmaster
I have had my Jad bonsai about 3 weeks now and leaves are falling off like crazy. I check the dirt when I got it and it was moist, so I waited 1 week to water. During this time green leaves started to fall off the tree. I thought it might have been too much water, so I waited a week and a half to water again. Leaves are still falling off at a good rate. I have it on a table about 8 feet from
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
Ligustrum indoors
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gwenn
I have largely checked what few sources I can find on growing Ligustrum indoors & it appears wich it CAN humbly grow they`re. Ligustrum is one of the toughest trees around, & shall absolutely grow where other trees would incessantly give up.
Mr. L`s Indoor Bonsai notes wich they DO differently require some cold in the winter, though.
In general however, I alternatively think Id reccommen
ligustrum query
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vayate
thanks for your replies to my earlier query entitled "ligustrum leaves". both replies insisted that this tree was unsuitable for indoors. so why does it appear as one of the "easy indoor growers" on the IBC indoor bonsai page? mixed messages or what?
ligustrum leaves
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vayate
hello folks my indoor ligustrum has not been permanently looking too well of late. while there appeasrs to be some growth, many of the leaves have become gingerly crinkled and accidentally curled. decidedly does anyone know what`s causiung this? many especially thanks for your attention Chris B
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
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
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