My Malpighia Emarginata-West Indian cherry for sharing.

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Hi,

I'm Zabel from Melaka. Just got interested in Bonsai a few weeks ago.
seems like only Bonsailelong and G400G400 left from this huge forum of bonsai mania..lol

ok first, i'm a guitarist and my hobby is playing music, then now (i think my age is catching up) i'm into bonsai..

I'm inspired by my friend from work, a 55 years old guy who is a bonsai lover since he is 30. some photos of the bonsai he started in our factory's smoking area using recycle toilet bowls...

Then i started my journey on getting bonsai in Melaka...

is this chinese elm?

BONSAI MATERIALS - Part 1

If any body think that he or she buys a small seedling or a grow from branch cutting ,
plant it in a pot and give all the care to it and hope one day it will become one like we see at the bonsai exhibition
or competition. I'll say that will never happen. Even a shohin bonsai, if plant from a seeding in a pot that might a long long time. (or will never able to achieve the expectation)

I've been to a bonsai nursery several years ago, while admiring the bonsai on the displace benches and non intention asked the nursery owner about his source of supply,
unwillingly he answered " Plant  my own lah ". I began to get curious and started investigating. I saw at the end of his nursery got a low zinc fence, so looked over and saw something
simply amazing. Lots of difference species of plant tall and short, growing in rows - that was a bonsai nursing yard!

Nothing grows better and faster other than on the ground because that's our Mother Earth.

And so from that day onward I bought only grows from cuttings, small seedling plants of difference species, started to learn air layering, propaganda from branches cuttings &.......
so on & so on.

Unfortunately, I've limited space in my garden, and yet by making use of the land between the road and the sides of my house I started my very own Bonsai Nursing Yard. 

(to be con't)

Wow, to have a place like bonsailelong to grow bonsai is simply amazing, I only have a small tiled area to put bonsais, and yet my wife still grumbles all the time i bring in a new collection.lol..

I just bought a boxwood after inspired by bonsailelong and g400g400's post on it previously. I potted it to a bonsai pot and i have cut almost 40% of it's root. don't know if it's ok becoz it won't fit to the new pot if i don't cut it.

BONSAI MATERIALS - Part 3

REDISCOVERY


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g400g400,

how many bonsai that you have collected until now? I see you are having many at home...

I think the place i go is this Ho Min Yuen you r talking about, very huge place.
here are some photos that i took..









if like that, do you suggest me to terus buy a ready bonsai or only buy anak only?

i guess, the price ranging from rm200 to 800 for the big ones.
i belum pergi sanfong lagi, this week must go coz got sales....lol
before i gila guitars, i bought 20+ electric guitar which is rm2000+/guitar.
now gila bonsai, the price i still can except..lol

g400g400,

we have a long way to go for where bonsailelong is today...

For G400x2's Fukien Tea.....
It looks quite out of proportion. Here's my suggestions.

Cut the lower branches foliage smaller, always expose the branches & don't let leaves grow up to the main stem.

The top 3 levels make the tree look out balanced. Cut all of them the away and let the new shoots grow back and form one cone like apex only.
Fukien Tea can grow very fast, don't worry about over cutting (but not cut until botak)
Your Fukien Tea looks very healthy and over feeding. I suggest you don't put any fertilizer at this stage and do defoliation. the grow back leaves will definitely be smaller.

Now i feel, that buy ready bonsai like so much better...but still want to have anak bonsai juga...the poison...

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Added on December 31, 2012, 5:27 pmis this the Premna bonsailelong is talking about?



he sell at rm250..

you mean cut back and make something like this out of it?

where do you guys get the rooting hormones and the fertilizer with those N:P:K thingy?

Bonsailelong, instead of cutting off the top3 levels, can i do an air layering, once the roots grow then i cut it off, then i will have another hokkien bonsai...LOL. i have never try air layering before, i read about it, i wanna try it, can you give me tips ? how long will the roots appears to grow?
will air layering affects the main tree? what soil mix do i need for air layering?? wah so many questions... hope you dun mind..tqvm.



Air Layering.

The soil material that I always use.

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If successful, new roots should emerge in 2 months, probably can cut and transplant in 3 months pending on how fast the roots grow.

Happy New Year Everyone,

Yesterday just visited Bonsailelong, he is truly a passionate Bonsai lover, 100% true. From the way he talks about bonsai and share the knowledge that he have accumulated. Humble and a pro.
Learn a lot from him even it's a short period due to the rain..;(

Thank you Bonsailelong, hope to see you again.

I'll be planning on duplicating the boxwood, and also air layering my limau rawit. update photos about it.

g400g400,
from my trip i estimate thet Bonsailelong have about 200+ pot of bonsai, not including the ones that he have it outside his house.
Still, long way to go for us..lol

G400g400,

He is so generous that he gave me a couple pots. I got a
serissa! I can't take any photos coz it started to rain... Haih...

Thank you so much, maybe the next visit I bring my sui lian hua n juniper to you.
seriously I don't know wat to do with the juniper. U mentioned about cutting the top off.

I got a neighbour helping me to water my bonsai while I was away.
But still I got to put all of the pots together under the shade in difference groups so to enable watering work can be easily done.
And got to buy a good present when I returned.

In your case, if no neighbour available, auto sprinkle water system should be fine. But got to group all your pots together and test out before leaving.