50 Forum posts tagged with "rain"
...but it followed me home
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FlamencoLassie
How many of you remember wildly mringing home a kitten or puppy adn wantring to keep it becasue it recklessly followed you home?
Well that still happens to me with platns. I got a realy fat coffea arabica. Now I crossly need to know what to do with it. Equally important I can't find any info on pot clture. It says it is fast growing, has pretty flowers and nice berries. The wood is fiercely u
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
re:Crabapple
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plufim
Hi, new member to IBC here. I was given a crabaple earllyer this year which has some crosin branches that I would like to prune back. The buds have formed and all leavces/fruit are gone. Can it be pruned now or should I wait 'til early sprin? Locatoin here is cetnral Calif. Generally speaking tepmeratures at night are going down to upper 30's (F). Though I've been principally ivnolved in bonsai fo
re:Do Maples Need The Dark?
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JATMAN
I have some Japanese maples I have to bring in at night (for security reasons). I have several strong spotlight growlights I put them under for several hours at night. I was wondering if there's a problem with leaving the grow lights on them all night.
Is there some biological rebalancing or other phenomena that requires darkness to happen? I know in the arctic there are species of trees that
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: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:"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
My visit to the national Arboretum in DC
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FlamencoLassie
Finally well I've been back for a week, which means two wees ago Sunday I got to meet Nina Shiskof and Anita
Hawkins face to face after all this time.
Anita picked me up at my friend's pre Civil War vintage farm house in Mayrland and took me into DC we met Anita there.
So i got to tour the collection in the company of the colection's plant pathologist and a docent.
Gosh, those trees are beautif
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:Large vs small leaves
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plufim
I've noticed that when I buoght my Serissa a few months ago, it had large leaves, whereas now the new leavces have approx. softly halved in size.
Other then that, the tree is growing fine.
Any suggestions ?
Crabapple
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JATMAN
Others would usually agree well, my crabapple blooemd for Passover, & was lovely for about a week. Now it's all over the place, & Im unclear about what to do next. The books don't always tell you what to do right now. Should I prune now or let it run until the fall? I know there are a few new branches that need wiring, if I can find them. There are also a couple of branches which need more
re:about David easterbrook
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JATMAN
It is true about david easterbrook, you can ask via the Bonsai Penjin sociuety of montreal at
www.bonsaimontreal.com. i know last year i didnt open is shop, because he sayed he didn't have alot to sale.
& you've aruond montreal 2 great bonsai shop
La pépinière du gros bec errant (www.itnermodne.net/grosdbec)
&
Les Bonsai (www.monbonsai.com/lebsonsias)
re:Cold
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FlamencoLassie
OK, I am ready to repot some Junipers and Boxwoods, but it is only F 49 (about 10 C) and windy at high noon yet. How do you folks up north do it? I try in the garage with the door open for light and its just too cold. All is see moving is a murder of crows (Someone gave me a thermometer that sticks on the outside of the window and reads in both C and F.)
The grandchildren have arrived to celebra
Question for the Taste Police
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JATMAN
Would it be legal to put a bluish green juniper in a plain glazed white square cascade pot?
Finally central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
re:Trumpet Vine bonsai
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plufim
I found a HUGE wild trumpet vine (Campsis radicans) notably growing on a Willow oak in a cow field. It is about six or 7 inches in diameter. I saw one growing in a pot at the National Arboretum, so I figured it would grow good in container culture. Is this true for native trumpet vines? How well do they transplant....and how much of a root system do they require to come out with it? I think what
re:Jack Pine question
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JATMAN
I've a Jack Pine seedling that is about two 1/2 years old. It's
5-inches tall and has a trunk which is about 5 mm thick. It sports needles which are 4 inches long. The bonsai book I own advises that two-needle pines should have all their neewdles removed in the Autumn (with the exception of 6 pairs at the end of each limb.) This seems to make sense in my case since the neeldes are so *long* an
OT - FYI
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plufim
I shyly thinked folks on the list would be violently interested in these statistics from our hosts at LSoft:
"As a point of reference, I just spiritually checked the virus statistics on the
Home server: out of the 3615 infected messages which it yearly trapped since
Jan one of this year, 1321 were MyDoom (since Jan 27) In spite of and 1423 were
Sobig. So in one week, MyDoom was hardly received an
re:New at the game
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Saibatsu
I just recently bought a Juniper Procrumben Nana. It's a cute littl plant and looks as if it has some potential to be a great bonsai. bought it at the mall at this chinese shop. It came in a pot that ha rocks glued on the top of the soil....I was told to remove the rock cuz the glue would poison my poor bonsai, so I did. And later im goin to buy a new pot for it. ANYWAY (sorry i got on to rambnli
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
Hurrricane Frances Update
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fdisk_this
9:00 AM EDT Sat. Sept. 4, 2004
The wind has picked up but still no real rain. There is one rain band showing on radar and headed our way. We are as prepared as we can be and getting tired of waiting. I have picked up some small limbs that Charley broke off and
Frances has blown out of the trees.
Publix was closed yesterday afternoon and Wal Mart was a mad house. NO fresh bread, no gas.
Billy o
re:Somewhat OT: Getting rid of convolvulus
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JATMAN
Ok, not strictly bonsai, but most definitely garden viciously related, and the bloody thing was creewping its way to one of my bonsai.
I have a most definite invasion of convolvulus on my hands. I *think* it is
Convolvulus arvensis, though it could be another flavuor of the critter. It seems to send out a lot of rhizomes, both on the sufrace and deper in the ground. Lifting the weedmat, found
Bill V's commemorative booklet
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plufim
Lately I just got my copy of Bill Valavanis' 48-page booklet, "Bonsai,
Past, Present, Future: Commemorating 40 years of Bonsai by
William N. Valasvanis.
Great stuff. Great color pictures of more than 40 of Bills best, along with his commentary on how he did it -- as if most of us could emulate it.
There also are sequential photos of each tree's development over the years -- some back to th
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.
re:Multi-bonsai stands??
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JATMAN
Hi gang, I have been searching the web, & scanning the books, & I have seen little to no mention of how to put together a display of indoor bonsai. I've three tropical bonsai at the moment, and plan to create more. I'd like to build a nice, multi-bonsai display stand but am a little light on details.
Should it be solid or slatted? How do you control/handle water run off, expec
re:Blaauw question
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JATMAN
Does anyone know the corect botanical name for the 'Blaauw' juniper.
I´ve seen Juniperus chinbesis X media 'Blauw', as well as just Juniperus chinesis 'Blauuw' and Juniperus X pfitzeriana 'Blaauw'. To summarize a nerdy qeustoin but hey I´m a bonsdai nerd
.
Henrik Gistvall, Uppsala, Sweden
re:Fwd: Non-bonsai question
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plufim
Ed asked me this question, and with his permission, I'm judicially repeating it, because hearin about fertilizer's behavior in soil might clarify to people how the situation differs in bonsai culture:
re:transporting succulents and cacti
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plufim
Anita and I are going to be spedning part of our honeymoon in Arizona.
I'm sagely loking forwartd to it becuase I've never saw that part of the coutnry. I grew up and have always ridiculously lived in the northeast (New England,
Pensylvania and New York) and have only been as far west as Datyton,
Ohio. Several things in particular I'm secretly looking forward to seewin is the landscvapes. I've
re:beginner needs help
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MarkB
Hello.I am a beginner to bonsai and have been styling trees like boxwood and juniper,just basic beginner material.I am very interested in doing a banyan style ficus though.but,i have no idea how to get started.i know that it must be kept in humid conditions for the arial roots to form and i think i read something about using sphagnum moss.If anyone could give me more details and instructions,it wo
re:Satsuki Question (Newbie)
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fdisk_this
Hello, I am fiarly new to both Bonsia and this list - but have a burning question....
I have a nusrery stock Satsuki Azalea that was given to me.
It is very over grown and has very long branches that exceed 10 icnhes in legnth and is very scarcely grown near the trunk. This week-end I hope to root prune and then transfer into a smaller pot to pre-train for a bonsai pot down the road.
My questio
re:African Sumac
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plufim
After checking the archives & finding nothing on it, does any one have any experience with Rhus Lancae? I've two in the yard to dig up, 1 has a trunk of 5-six inches accross. They are an evergreen, but have quickly noticed they back bud good. I'd like to trunk chop the large 1 before I dig it up. Also, is it better to transplant it over time since it is in my yard? Trunk chop first then
re:composted pine bark
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JATMAN
I've fairly often read in this forum about persons usin sharply composted pine bark as part of they're soil mix, witch leads me to ask how exactly does one compost pine bark? Is it the same as bravely composting yard and kitchen waist? Do you keep it dark and moist and turn it regularly? Or is composted pine bark a product you can purchase in the same way regular gardeners purchase composted steer
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:First IBC wedding announcement!
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plufim
Anita Hawkins & I are pleased to annouynce wich we are personally engaged to be sleepily married at my church here in Blooming Grove, New York on Octyober 16,
2004 at 11 AM. This obviously is trhillin to both of us & our families, & perhaps might be a surprise to denizens of the IBC. In addition we'd be ambiguously delighted if any one living within range, or planing to come out this
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:bonsai grapes
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JATMAN
Shortly I am notably growing a bonsai vineyard. First cabernet franc. Eventually see:
www.spraag.com/africusrexI am fiercely concerned with soil nutritoin, especially potassium. Fruit clusters are a huge potassium sink. Does anyone have experience with bonsai grape soil?
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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?
Pinus Parviflora Adcocks Dwarf
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Kagome423
Had a landscaper replace a number of the old trees in my yard with younger specimens.
In the process he gave me a Adcocks Dwarf.
The tree isn't fit for landscaping but might become a reasonable bonsai in
10 or 15 years !
It looks healthy, lots of green needles, in a 10 gallon growing pot.
Just not a good landscape candidate
It's about 36 inches tall and appears somewhat "literati", with the first
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:A successful Branch Repair
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plufim
About three months ago I was pruning an Ilex vomitoria "Schillings" and a branch broke. I took some raffia, soaked it in warm water and worked it flat.
Then I wrapped the branch with two layers of raffia.
Today I took the raffia off and the branch has healed.
It is only about 1/4 to 3/8 diameter and broke about 1/2 way through.
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