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.



The gears

Wrigthia Religiosa - "shui Mui"

The trunk is approx 1" in diameter, the upper part of approx 8" will be just fine for an informal upright style.

Clean up the part going to be "de-bark".

Give a clean cut, don't leave connection between upper & lower barks.

Brush on rooting hormones.

Use transparent plastic sheet so that when new roots grows out,can be seen.

Put in the soil, don't tie too tied at the top part so that can water, and always keep the soil moist.

Done. Cover from the sun

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

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 1 2013, 01:41 PM

G400x2

'Peat Moss Cultivated Soil' is the same.
The most important point is the soil or moss around the "de-barked" area must keep
moist or wet most of the time.

BONSAI -OFF TOPIC

Taken a day off from works and drove to & fro over 500 KM just to see this.

The "leaning tower of Pizza" in Malaysia. Guess where...Telur Intan in Perak.

...and saw this... the biggest and oldest "bonsai" I have ever seen in my life.



A big Bayam Tree !



..Very old Junipers



Guess how old could them be?








.. probably the same age ???




Ooop!

Spotted something of our interest !

But over the fence.

A master of Juniper bonsai is here.

Some thing interesting along the street.

The master at "works"

a fancy bike..

This town has got lots of good landscapers.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 2 2013, 10:38 PM

See them now?

Hi Zabel,

Thanks for dropping by. The heavy down pour spoiled the time but we still able to talk about bonsai in my "Pondok"
with rain water flooding our legs.

Feel free to drop by again.

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.

Maybe you should think of sending all your bonsai to a plant nursery where the owner is willing to take care for you for a cheaper price.

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 3 2013, 10:40 PM

Bonsai grow from seed is called Misho Bonsai in Japanese.

I do have some Wrightia - "shui mui" grown from seed long time ago and still surviving.

Will take some photos and post up this weekend.

At the mean time hope you guys don't mind to go back to my older post 138 dated 11/11/2010 to check out.

You realise something, there are only 3 of us here in this topic !!! Hope more bonsai kaki can join in to give more

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 4 2013, 01:02 PM

Bonsai grown from seed - Chinese Bonsai Style mainly mini and shohin size.

Here's some of my collections for sharing



Small Wrighthia "shui mui" group

...lots of twisting movement.

formal upright group.

An old Chinese style

front back

Another old Chinese style



This one with "powerful" trunk movement



Fukien Tea grown from seed.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 5 2013, 03:15 PM

Potting a Jude plant - Botanical name known as Portulaca Oleracea.

This Jude plant has been neglected in one corner of the garden for quite some times.
but it has grown up to a size and natural semi cascading style that make me decided to transfer it to a pot.



... then dug up..



.... then...



A healthy, succulent plant. Will let it grows in this pot for sometimes before changing to a tall thin bonsai pot.

Mind I ask how much it cost ?
Just want to know the difference between Melaka and semenyih.

May be just trim it with double apex with the upper one approx. half the size of the lower one.



This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 5 2013, 10:46 PM

Hi G400x2

First I would like to congrats you that you have found a very big "shui mui" stump which is very rare.
But secondly, I would like to say if you keep that stump in that manner, you are going to drown and kill it.

Any plant with big stump like that should be able to grow again.
I suggest you make some hole in the bottom of that plastic paint drum and change the soil to the normal planting soil.

Here is my suggestion

cut away the marked part and cut the plastic drum lower and keep it in half sunlight condition.


Good Luck to your "treasure"!

This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 12 2013, 02:33 PM

Went to San Fong Bonsai yesterday on my way home from work.
Spent sometimes appreciating the bonsai and bonsai materials there.
There are real awesome stuffs in there and the prices are " awesome" too!
I particularly like the casurina tree materials but unfortunately no photos are allowed but not outside the nursery.

Here's the casurina trees for sharing






This post has been edited by Bonsailelong: Jan 13 2013, 03:25 PM

Hi Zabel

Hope you don't mind I suggest that you shouldn't use the " black" soil shown in your photo.
It's actually "longkang" soil, if you wash the "black" soil with water, you can understand what I mean.

Ask for the coconut fiber black soil next time, it should look like this

Hi Zabel,
If you're going to San Fong don't forget to buy some wire, the 1.15mm and some 2 mm size are needed if you want to start misho bonsai.

I think Zabel should be able to help, because the last time I bought the sulphur lime solution is from Ho Min Yuen Melaka.
Till now, the sticker on the bottle has faithed. So can't show any photo.

HI Zabel,

Apologize for giving you a serrisa in a very young stage.
I think you can understand the reason, the rain was too heavy that day and I just simply grabbed one at the far corner of my garden and gave it to you.
If not I should have choose and give a better one.
I give a suggestion to that young serrisa.
Don't be hurry to plant it in a bonsai pot but plant it in a much much bigger pot and let it grows bigger.
Trim the foliage round. Serrisa can has the stem grown up to 1 to 1.5 ins in diameter. (Maybe in 2 years time.)

Hope this one can give you the idea.

Hope this can help.



You can find out more info and precautions to use from Google.

Don't forget to take the precautions when you use it.