Yeah, nice plan!

Uhmmm I stay nearby cyberjaya, selangor...

My gf works at Melacca tats why I will be at Melacca around 1~2 times a month...

Why?

I think you tree look like a type of murraya, most probaly murraya paniculata microphylla,  i had a few of these, nursery in Malaysia inport them from Thailan and Taiwan.

Hi people, Im new here. Glad to find this forum. Keep it up!

I cannot tell u much why is u pine with yellow tip.
what i can tell u is my pine expose to sun from 8am to 1pm, shield from the very hot afternoon sun and rain (remember i live in apartment)
The soil i use is 1/3 burnt soil, 1/3 pine bark from the pinus caribaea, the tropical pines u see in Malaysia and 1/3 brick pound into 2 to 5 mm grain. Sometimes i use black lava soil to instead of the pound brick grain.

The seedling i brought is RM180 for tree seedling from samfong

That is the only white pine that i have seen, bougt in one of the nursery along jalan sungai buloh subang

If you want to buy black pine bonsai from china, the nursery near sungai buloh highway exit to jalan kuala selangor at the moment do sell themranging from rm 250 to rm 1000, pic below

Very interseting and funny finding for me today,

I'm surfing a china website online shopping thingy. then suddenly i typed black pine in the search box and resulted, china traders selling seedling of black pines, 1-2 year olds for about RM10-20 per seedling...hahahaha the postage is about rm20 for all?

Seems like want to try out maybe 1 or 2 just for fun...

wah.. u guys r like pro.. im actually new.. and dun really get the concept of bonsai.. kira noob la.. but enjoy gardening. anyway will post sum pics soon, then hope you guys can help me how to start "bonsai-ing"

Wah... so poisoning here... why the black pine is so expensive compare to other bonsai plant? Is it due to the fact that its difficult to get it growing over here in our climate?

My pine does not turn yellow tip when i bend them, in fact pine is one of the most flexible to bend among the tree that i have enconuter.
By there is two pines i left in my brother house, one not expose to full tropical sun that is from 8am to 1pm only, one full exposure, the full exposure needle turn yellowish.
It could also due to the potting medium,  i would suggest you to join Internet Bonsai Club or bonsai nut, post u pic and ask the member there, or join Lindsay Farr world of bonsai in facebook n ask the friend there.

Some bonsai master will say, learned how to keep pine alive first before u bonsai them.

If the pine is undergoing stress,  NEVER do an root pruning. pruning, cutting, or wireing.
NEVER NEVER NEVER, bare root a o pine

NEVER NEVER NEVER cut more than 1/4 of the root ball when reporting or root pruning, (especially the root with white tip)

NEVER NEVER NEVER bare needle a pine. If you bare a branch, pine does not bud from a branch without needle so the branch/tree without needle is as same as dead.

What you should do after reporting is just leave it for more than tree month before u do anything. Unlike other type of tree, do not needle prune when reporting.

What i sometimes do is i usually wire the tree in its original pot first, bend it to the shape i want then tree month later when the tree does not show any stress i report to a bonsai pot.  However if the potting medium in the original pot is not suitable i will change the potting medium first.

Black Pine or Pinus thunbergii  is expensive in Malaysia becoz
They grow very very slow.
Pine will die if they are stress.
Once the show sign that they are dying u cannot do anything to recover them.
Nursery have to take in consideration these factor when deal with them.

Pine usually does not respond to air layering so your friend cannot propagates for u.
Maybe we can grow black or white pine in Malaysia, but that dos not mean they can propagate sexually here, so no seed for future generation.
Nursery cannot produce them locally.

However there is the Caribbean Pine, Pinus caribaea, a tropical pine do very well in Malaysia. Some people oversea do make bonsai from them.

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This is the photo given in the website...
Then i buy 50pcs lor, then distribute here...hihi joking..
Why not i just buy a few we test dulu..
I try search, 5 needle pine pun ada!!     but bit more mahal, rm25/pokok 40cm height..

Bad news, the agent do not allow me to purchase the black pines, said that the custom will block it... so... no chance...back to the seeds i guess

Should i or not buy a black pine tomorrow at MHY

It was good to meet up with Bonsailelong and Zabel @ Min Hoe Yuen nursery on Saturday. (Even though briefly).

Thank you Bonsailelong for the boxwood gift. Very kind of you indeed.

I managed to get some bonsai supplies, soil, and two of the little flowering plants Bonsailelong recommended. I think it is the lavender purple star.

We must plan up to make another trip sometime.

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