Coming !

Wow!

What healthy JPB you have! If I can I'll do the same, import 100 nos of JBP.

But my miserable JBP are full of yellow tip needle.

Could it be too hot down here?

Hi Proton wira,

Do u mind telling how you can keep all your JBP in such a good healthy look.
do you cut short the needle and remove any candles?

From the photos, you got lot of good stuff on the bench too !

Mind to show off ?

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Apr 20 2013, 10:00 PM

Initial Shaping Literati Style ?

A young Tamarind bought from Min Ho Yuen.





....on the bench.....

Cedar - Initial Bonsai Shaping.

This 5 ft tall cedar has been decorated as Christmas Tree for a couple of years during Christmas season.



The faith of it to become Christmas tree again has ended but the chance to become an awesome bonsai has began.





with more than 80% of the foliage cut off but with roots undisturbed...

..now planted in a big pot.... might take at least one year to recover before working on pruning the roots.

Welcome Alvchin

Looking forward to share the photos of your trees.

Hi Alvchin,

u got quite some collection!

Nice cucur attap!



Give a suggestion on the dead wood preservation.

Sand paper or use fine wire brush the dead wood EXTRA carefully. If u break the wood ....
Apply lime sulphur solution, when dry (usually over night) apply carefully 2 coats of colourless wood varnish.
Wood varnish can be bought from any hardware shop, it has water repelling effect.
If the dead wood have any rotten part, scrap the part off until solid wood.

Good luck to your nice Cucur attap!

In our region,even decent bonsai looking maple like this is hard to come by,
can you tell me where did you buy the maple?



"Silver pine" in Chinese is actually not a pine nor a juniper.
It's a False Cypress family called Boulevard False Cypress.
When plant directly under the sun, the foliage will turn green.
But under half shade condition, the foliage is silver in color.
I got this B. False cypress plant on ground which at one time I've mistaken it as a Casuarina.



For this one, if you can post up a clearer photo showing it's leaves and flowers, I might be able to identify it.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Apr 24 2013, 09:54 PM

Well, your "silver pine " is Boulevard False cypress for sure.
And the other one is a popular Indian flower which Indian use to present to their gods in prayer.
It's common name is Crape Jasmine and scientific name is Nandyarvattam.

Yip, I've few white mulberry.
Mulberry is described as the most terrible material for bonsai.
It just simple grows and grows, very very difficult for leaves ramification.
But every time you cut away the old branches, new branches and fruits come out.
But very soon it will be out of shape again.
For large wound, I'll say... never heal!
I'll take some shots and post up during this weekend.

Initial Shaping - Another Cedar

This one.....probably 6 year old.



Getting the root ball out from the pot is no easy task.



Now on the "operation table"....



"Operation" half way through....



.....2 hours later.



With almost 90% of foliage removed and 60% of root cut away, will it survive?

Welcome anti@,

Usual suggestion, get a boxwood.

can show photos?

Hi, the guy over there in the East, seen to be very quite nowadays?

Is the guy down south also busy listening to ceramah too?

Great Start Zabel !

Probably after the GE, I will want to buy another black pine.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Apr 28 2013, 05:04 PM

This 2 black pine (most likely Chinese) bought from Min Ho Yuen sometimes early February this year .



Some styling were done to them when they were brought home.



After 3 months, these black pines shown remarkable adaptation to new environment, new candles and needles grow out well.
And so I decided to give them some shaping improvement ...
After making many considerations of which candle to cut and 4 hours of careful wiring and hard bending works...

At least look more like bonsai now.



Placed back to the same location.

....before. ...after.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Apr 28 2013, 05:42 PM

Hi Alvchin,



Not bad even without the dead wood.
It will be better if your cucur attap can have some foliage ramification works.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Apr 29 2013, 09:38 PM

Sungei Buloh, but very expensive.

Bought from Melaka, only rm100 each.

If I've not noticed wrongly, your soil might have problem.
If you have bought your cucur attap from Sanfong, you can notice that all Sanfong's cucur attap are planted with sand.