these r nice huang yang...

don'y have such type of bonsai over here in my town... put this into my shopping list at sanfong...

bought a bonsai book for more inspiration!

So I think you'll be buying more than 5 pots lar ..LOL

kk, thanks for all your help ( and other forumer as well ) ~ and sorry for making you busy

haha, bought a bonsai book last time coz saw it very cheap..it's the book that made me wanna start with bonsai

There are many boxwood species in this world with slight difference from each other,It's all depends on which regions of the world they are growing.
You can go to Google to find out more.
The one commonly found in our country is Buxus Harlandii with beautiful cork bark like stem and natural old looking.

Thanks to Malaysia, the country with so many public holidays!
Spent the whole morning doing a Wrighthia giving it the initial "Larch Style" shaping.

This Wrighthia "shui mui" was potted about 8 years ago, because of it's vertical stem that gave me an idea that
one day I'll want to shape it into some thing like a Larch.



..lots of careful brushing works to do to clean up the stem and branches.

A wound was created when it was potted.

Deepen, enlarge and elongate the wound, than give it a slight touch by a lighter, then brush with lime sulfur solution.

Now still in the original pot

... and now the roots..

Front.

Back.

And now for it's size. But something is still missing, it doesn't has a nebari, a piece of flat stone was places under the stump before planting into the new pot.
Hope that can help to form a good nebari in a year or two's time before further shaping and transferring into a smaller shorter pot.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 24 2013, 03:34 PM

Bought this just for fun.

Something not so usual. Please show how's the moss when you spore the seed.

guys, altho i haven't got my bonsai yet..ayam excited to get the tools liao xD where can i find concave cutter in sarawak? don't seems to see them in nursery i went to last week. umm bonsailelong, just wanna confirm with you, can a young buddhist pine be a bonsai? without waiting for 5 years? XD what fertilizer is suitable for buddhist pine? might be buying it tmr if not then sunday

We usually by cutter from hardware shop.
For a beginner, straight cutter like this should be good enough.



This costs rm18 over here. There are same type of cutter like this costs only rm7-8 but simply won't last long.
The fertilizer you bought earlier should be good for Buddhist pine. N15 P15 K15 is meant for tap root trees and Buddhist pine is tap root specie.
Remember never over apply! Or you will
Any tree, young or old when planted in a pot with some shape is "Bonsai".
I've got young Buddhist pine about 10" tall but I'm only free on Sunday to do the initial shaping.
And after the 1st shaping, it probably can be called as "pre-bonsai" and you should take care and maintenance it to become a bonsai.
At the same time, get more trees or more bonsai .. Hei hei hei hei hei.......... (injecting bonsai racun)

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 25 2013, 11:14 PM

not sure why, the N15 P15 K15 fertilizer i bought doesn't seems to dissolve in water xD unlike other pink or purple colored fertilizer for flowers i bought before, it will dissolve into soil when i water the plant, this one i try use my hand crush it also nothing happened xD

oh and 1 more thing..should i wire my cedar juniper after i repot it to a bigger pot? coz the trunk is kind of senget and not straight. after it grow big dy then hard to wire liao right? if i need to wire it, where can i get the wire? XD

Pink color one is flowering hormones and the blue or purple one is for fruiting simulation.
Just put about 10 "biji" of the N15 P15 K15 around the stump of your plant fortnightly, every time you water
the fertilizer will dissolve slowly into the soil.

Can you post a bigger photo of your ceder to show it's trunk.

kk, i'll post the pic tmr
another problem i observed on the trunk is that there's small bump on the trunk..the size of the bump is about the size of the fertilizer i bought and is a bit red in color..is it a disease or something? and yeah, i also will post the pic of it tmr~

SG BULOH TRIP

Heard from a friend that there are Black pines and maple for sale in one of the nursery in Sg Buloh.
Drove for an hour after work to the place and hope can shop for one or two to add to my collections.

The first stop is at a bonsai and flower plant nursery beside the highway just before reaching Sg Buloh town.
This nursery is in long narrow piece of land in between the highway and the Sungei Buloh. (river)
It've got a row of gigantic China ficus along the external side of the fence.
When asked about the Black Pine, the nursery boss's son show me a place where he kept about 15 pots of them.
The Black Pines look like just gone through an adaptation period, some with new spores of needle leaves.
But when asked about the price......guess what.. rm800 to 2k.
Oh My goodness ! I am still thinking of the rm200 black pine that I bough several years ago from the Chinese traders.
" Wah ! why so expensive ? "
" Don't you know how to see, they sure can grow, the ones that can't grow have die long ago."
So, my rm200 budget to buy a black pine is actually
I didn't take any photos of the black pine and walk on to look for maple.
Found few maple, already very seasoned to grow in our climate.



How much ? rm180 to 300 !
And so I left this place and move on

( to be con't)

in sarawak here got lots of maple ( now only i know it's a maple! ) but not sure which is the species that you wanted to find.
guess what, i actually thought the plant that i saw is papaya tree coz the leaf looks so alike LOL!

bought my buddhist pine just now hopefully i bought the right one this time..


and here's some pic of my senget juniper

Hi infrasonic

You got a very healthy Buddha pine.

I think this example I've done can suit your tree.

This young tree is multiplied from cutting from one of my bigger tree.

Cut away all unwanted leaves except the branches.

wire around the main stem and make the first bend.

Wire the longer branches too and make some branch shortening movement.

(Front) Cut the leaves shorter.

(Back) Will let this young tree grow in the same pot for at least 4-5 months before re potting and further shaping.

In your case, your young Buddha pine has got few branches along the stem. There's good.
Always leave the branches at the concave side of the bend and cut away any branch at the converse side.

See whether you can do something to your cedar like this as it grows. Cut away the small lumps if you don't like them to be on your trees.



If you can't find aluminium in your place pvc coated wire like this should do because your tree looks big enough.



I usually use aluminium wire, 2mm and 1.15mm in diameter. the brown one is softer and the black one is slightly harder.
I suggest you can contact San Fong Bonsai and get them to post over to you the wire you want.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 27 2013, 04:30 PM