Haha Haha Haha!!!

Next change ....
Looks like quite some kaki here got infected with black pine fever.
If the black pine are new stock from China, better not to buy. Chances of surviving is low.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 18 2013, 05:06 PM

Nice one Loo

Pinus thunbergii

Grow, cultivate and train black pine in climate like our country is no easy task.
Lots of try and errors, scarify (tree dead) etc etc etc.....
I'm so happy that I've successfully multiplying the specie with air layering.
Here's something I wish to share with everyone.

Air-layered Black Pine No.1
My first try out in air layering sometime back in February this year.
In May, the result came out to a surprising sucess.



And today, this is how the lower portion of the tree looks like. Growing green and healthy.



For the upper portion of the tree, another air layering process has done aiming to get a broom style mane pine.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 19 2013, 02:54 PM

Air Layered Black Pine No.2

Immediately after the first black pine, a second tree was air layered.

This is how the tree looks like when I first bought from Min Hoe Yuen Malacca for RM100.





About a month after the air layering process, I started adjusting and giving initial shape to the tree.
Although it's only 3 months after the tree was air layered, I just can't wait and decided to check out the result.



... "don't fail me please ....."



... wow!
strong healthy roots..... amazing !!! Just in 3 months....



Very careful planting and potting using Indonesian volcanic soil....

Upper portion.



Lower portion.




Thank you for viewing.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 19 2013, 02:54 PM

Pine fever on..!

Pot and Save a Chinese Juniper

This is a very old Chinese Juniper of unknown origin. It consists of both scale and needle foliage in a disorder manner.
From the front of the tree it might looks healthy and green due to good exposure to sunlight.



...and natural drift wood surface.



Digging up this Juniper is no easy task, its roots spread as for as 1 meter away from its stump.



The front of the tree.



The back is different. It's due to the back portion of the tree was shaded from sunlight for years.



The worst part.... a portion of the stem has started to rot. This could be a reason why this Juniper is not able to develop full mature scale needle foliage.



Will only be working on the shaping the tree when it has grown and gained back a balance of healthy green mature foliage.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 20 2013, 02:12 PM

Not bad. AZ

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 20 2013, 09:59 PM

Hi Guys,

Got any good stuff?

Let's look at some the international bonsai forum ... say ibonsaiforumotion.com
Bonsai enthusiasts over the world share their works and experiences.
Anybody putting up their trees for sale?

The above statement is a pretext.
We know the rules when we sign up and join this forum.
And most important the moderator knows exactly what he is doing.

We have been working hard to bring this bonsai topic back to life.
Instead of giving such a dishonest and untrue comment, why not join in make this topic more lively.
Show the good things of yours, people will sure to approach you.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 24 2013, 05:41 PM

Let trace back to Oct last year, when bro G400400 posted on this topic asking whether this forum is still alive or not , we then tried hard to keep the topic on. Then bro Zabel joined in .. and so on and so on...
Hope we can keep the bonsai spirit on this topic on and high....... not because other intention.
Thanks to all

Hi petbrat,

You're very welcome to join in to share your experience about the specie of plant that you are familiar to.
But of coarse the choice is yours. Let's have constructive inputs that can benefit all of us.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 25 2013, 08:34 AM

Dangerous place eh?

The first time I went there, not only RM went into the nursery's boss pocket but also to the MBBM. (I got a parking summon)

Hi Alvchin ,mind to share your latest addition from MHY?

.....and I remember G400400 got to pull out his credit card from his pocket when he visited Sanfong.

Anyway, let keep the bonsai spirit high.

Agreed

Hi Alvchin,

You got some good stuff.

Junipers with good trunk size and branches that can give many options as sari and foliage.

Hi Zabel,

Your juniper is making good progress !
But that poor fellow under the tree seen to have lost his way among the bushes!?

As for your "shui mui", I would like to suggest that you brush clean the trunk, re pot, let new branches grow freely for a couple of months and by then you should be able to figure out how to deal with them automatically.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Oct 27 2013, 08:50 PM

Hi CJ,

Mind to share your collection?

"BOXWOOD MUSHROOM"

The following para is taken from Harris Harrington's Species Guide in his page Bonsai4me.com

"Boxwood have something of a poor image as bonsai, mainly due to the proliferation of poorly designed trees being styled with pom-pom foliage. Boxwood have a naturally multi-stemmed growth habit that lends them to being styled like large spreading park trees and it is with this style that they look their best when grown as bonsai."

I particularly like Boxwood, buxus harlandii of coarse. It's natural old cork bark texture trunk, small foliage and easy propaganda give me the reasons to grow and keep large nos of them. But what Mr Harrington said about boxwood wood styling is very correct. I got big majority of my buxus harlandii shaped like a mushroom.
Here are some of my buxus photos for sharing.

And now their sizes .....



Any sifu willing to share photos of their tree and experiences on how to shape buxus other than a "DOOM"?

AZ,

Your boxwood is actually not bad. It got a good nabris.
If you are willing to try, cut away all the branches as shown below and let new branches spore.
Buxus harlandii requires half sunshade condition to achieve good healthy grow, and frequently feed.