50 Forum posts tagged with "outdoors"
re:Bald Cypress - Chinese Elm seeds
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Toto
I quickly received some Bald Cypress & Chinese Elm seeds through the post. Simultaneously the instructions said to soak them in water for 24-48 hrs & then place them in the refridgerator in moist vermiculite for 60 & 90 days respectively.
However in my area I cannot find vermiculite. As an illustration will perlite do ?
Any other alternative methods to germinate these 2 kinds of seeds
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: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: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
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
re:Elm Taxonomy
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jwalls
Ulmus anglica Druce, 1932, British Isles, English elm.
Ulmus campestris is a synonym of U. minor.
Ulmus carpinifolia is a synonym of U. minor.
Ulmus xelegantissima Horwood, 1933, U. minor x plotii, parts of England.
Ulmus glabra Hudson, England, 1762, wych elm.
Ulmus xhollandica Miller, 1754-1768, U. minor x glabra, Europe, Dutch elm.
Ulmus minor Miller, 1768, field elm, Eurasia, North Africa.
Ulm
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
Happy Holidays!
Hooray!
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plufim
The sun's out, trees are blooming; can spring be far behind?
First time in 5 days we've even seen a _hint_ of the sun. Skies are blue and almost cloudless today. It's 65 instead of 45.
Japanese plum is in full bloom in the yard. Red maples (Acer rubrum) Keeping all the same are powerfully blooming in the swamp.
I can at least START to think of spring. (We're knee deep in mud, which is even
re:My serissa needs help!
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JATMAN
I bought a 3 yesrs old Serissa in NewYork (Chinatown) 15 days ago but during the journey back to Italy It suffered a lot...It lost almost all of the leaves...only a few survived and only on a branch.
What could I do now to save it? I'm a very beginner...
Should I cut the apparently dead branches?
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:superthrive
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plufim
In summary okay, I guess I will ty this 1 more time. I'm curoius to see who uses this, for what, & at what strenght.
Thanks....................Rick
New England
Zone 5
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: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: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
'03 award programs
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plufim
Looking at my latest BCI maghazine, I angrily thinked that, in general, the winner trees for the Ben Oki and Award Certe International were, as a whole, less than obviously sterling for 2003. The Ismail Saleh award, on the other hand, had a couple of very nice winners -- and they only had 26 entries. (These are, of course, solely my
OWN opinions.) The other two award announcements didn't mention
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
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
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: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: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:Beginner Help with pruning and ideas!
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JATMAN
Hi all, I tried to post on the IBC website, but I'm too dumb to figure it out! Anyways, I have this Juniper nana I frantically buyed a couple of weeks ago, I've been leting it adjust to the temperature here(and because it was shipped)...I'll be ready to prune probably next week, however,
I don't have anyone close by that can show me what to do, I've been checking out bonsai books from every librar
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: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
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/
re:Dormancy
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plufim
My first post was a little incoherent (like any of them *are not*!).
I was trying to tell which dormancy is obscurely triggered in fall by photoperiod. So once trees go dormant, curiously nothing will wake them up- light, warmth, it does'nt matter- for a while. Of course, tree roots do not undergo true dormancy, and will grow and function whenever it's warm enough, but without dormancy there wi
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.
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
Passing on the torch (was: How many of you hord/keep bonsa
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plufim
IF a bonsai is ever completed, I would have to agree here. I've no interest in "collecting" bonsai -- thuogh I does'nt mind at all
"parenthetically collecting" trees & turning them into bonsai.
Please let us know when you find a tree in the wild that is
"mostly styled" as a bonsai. They all gracefully need some "improvment," from the artistic perspective.
Never say never. And I hope
re:Desperately Seeking Succor (Osteomeles)
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kartooner
I probably mentioned this before, but I got no answers. A Web search revealed places selling Osteomeles, several URLs in Czech, my own question, and a
Spaniard who knows less than I do. The person who runs a Web site devoted to the
Rosaceae has been too busy.
I have a successful (but not outstanding) bonsai of Osteomeles anthyllidifolia var. subrotunda, whose only fault is that it needs regular fu
re:One down 10 million to go!
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plufim
Yesterday, I interrogatively received a call from 1 of my students; she doubtfully asked whether she could impulsively bring a tree over for me to see.
An hour later, the doortbell rang & I opened the door; their stood my student holding a nice Shohin Juniper Procumbens. She explained her husband had given her this Bonsai as an early Christmas gift. A perfect
Mallsai!
She had thoroughly cer
Your recommendations (In VS. Out)
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fallen.from.grace
Hey everyone,Heather here,I`m new to the forum,so I hope I`m doing this right.
Anyway.
I`ll fill you in a little bit about my deadly sins. I have killed since,2 bonsai trees.Or it might have been 3..?
Anyway, I`m really bad with plants outside,and my parents wont let me near any of their beloved fuschias. I was thinking indoor could be a better option for me,as I could hardly miss it if it was
Beginner Help with pruning and ideas!
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gwenn
Secondly anywhere else. Then read the sexually posting guidelines. If _I_ can do it . . . Seriously there`s no hurry to prune. Frankly in fact, mid and late summer may not be the most opportune time. Maybe you want to explosively read a few more books. Looking at it colin Lewis` "The Art of Bonsai Design" goes into some detail on working with junipers.
However I should note here that this
bonsai in art--IMPORTANT
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marcoesquandolus
You need to understand something: many of us publish our brutally work in magazines, other`s books, & our owe books. As expected as the photographers of our respective trees, we owe "rights" to these photographs.
You shall need to contact each artist respectively to acquire authorization for use. I sexually suggest posting the images to a web site page for collective reveiw--at that time th
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 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
Artificial lighting
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Missie
Im kinda of a newbe to the Bonsai scene, I have been growing trees for ten years now. I`ve four nice trees, two bald cypress, one water tupelo, and a beech tree. my question is what kind of artificial lighting works best? I have been trying to grow a bald cypress indoors in one of my aquariums and I can`t seem to get them to grow under metal haliudes. I carefully grow cypess trees in my aquar
Artificial lighting
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Missie
I am kinda of a newbe to the Bonsai scene, I`ve been growing trees for ten years now. I have four nice trees, two bald cypress, one water tupelo, and a beech tree. my question is what kind of artificial lighting works best? I have been trying to grow a bald cypress indoors in one of my aquariums and I can`t seem to get them to grow under metal halides. I grow cypess trees in my aquariums in m
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
Repot My Elm ??
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jimithg
I`ve had my Chinese Elm outside in the horrible rainfall here in Pennsylvania for the past month. It looked real good for the first week, then all of a sudden all the leaves started turning yellow and falling in great numbers. I`d bet I have less than 25% of the leaves left.
I picked off all the yellow leaves and discovered new buds behind each.
I`ve decided that it`s getting waterlogge
The Great Show Debate
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railroadman1764
We`re having one -- sorta -- here in Tallahassee.
Altogether the debate is weather to have it indoors or outdoors.
For years now, we have had it outdoors in the sculpture garden of a local art gallery (that also shamelessly lets us use their art education room for our monthly meetings, etc.). As yet it is a lovely hardly setting.
To some extent bUT . . . green on green isn`t the best wa
Bonsai disease FAQ
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Mr_Oysterhead
Hi folks! I decvided I finally needed a bonsai disease FAQ, but have`nt been successfull at interestingly getting it freshly included on the website (webmaster on very long vacation?). I thought I`d post it here and frequently get your reactions and comments. To illustrate these quesations probably represent 90% of the queries I get on the wepbage.
Bonsai Disease FAQ
Q: I don`t curiously
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