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Just keep it from freezing and it should do fantastic for you. Did you check out my tour of Jim Smith's collection at Heathcoat Gardens? He had some of the most amazing ones on the planet! Here's the link. th-cam.com/video/2UmNzwlRkXo/w-d-xo.html

I can do that! Thanks for the great idea, I feel with winter coming on that I was running out of ideas for videos. When it comes to "good bonsai" that's a tricky one because bonsai is such a subjective endeavor but I can definitely discuss the general rules that I try to follow to create my trees. You don't happen to know a Nancy Aronson who lived in the Chicago area as a little girl? I was madly in love with her when I was eight years old! LOL

Thank you Mama. I once took a writing class that taught me to assume that your reader is "intelligent but uninformed" on whatever topic you were writing about so that's how I try to do my videos. I realize that many people well versed bonsai, even more so than myself, watch my videos but I still think that taking things down to simple explanations is the way to go.

Or maybe Phyllanthus myrtifolius

Thanks for commenting! I don't think it's heather. First heather is almost constantly flowering with tiny purple flowers and this tree has never had any blooms. Also heather stays very low, like this tree is now, but the guy that sold it to me says he has one that now has a two inch trunk. Regardless of what it is I'm looking forward to working with it as if develops

Thanks Tom! I appreciate the positive input. Parrot's Beak are quickly becoming one of my favorite varieties. I am definitely becoming more partial to shohin size trees. It seems the older I grow the smaller my trees get!

So have those branches hit the ground and grow back up. I actually know of one massive oak like that right in town here, a friend of mine lives there. It is so very cool. Great idea

That's awesome! I have so many seedlings from last year I don't know what I'm going to do with them all! I hope you have great luck growing yours

It's still alive as of today!

Just plain ugly is more like it! LOL It is SO bizarre that it does have a certain amount of charm. I was going to chop it up into separate trees but since you like it so much I'll keep it intact and style it from there. I'm thinking of calling the "The Creature II".

@ Maybe I have a liking for monsters. Will be excited to see what you do with it to make it to your liking but not change its true character. I watch every episode of your channel.

@@MamaJArk Yes, the bonsai that is clean and sleek and graceful and "perfect" stirs something inside of us but the one that is contorted, twisted, tortured and misshapen can have an even more profound effect at a completely different level. I think those trees evoke that sense of struggle that we all feel at some time or other. Thank you for you loyalty! I truly appreciate it!

Thanks Nigel! I'm still a little confused so I'm going to list the trees and then try to name them. No. 1 - Clean lines, fairly large leaves, white pot. Elemental Bonsai tells me it's a "Port Jackson" rubiginosa. Concur? No. 2 - Cut backs that died leaving the tree in almost two pieces. Lots of aerial roots. Natalensis? No. 3 - Crazy wild growth with huge number of roots growing out of the pot. Burt Davii? Thanks for helping!

@@WoodcrestBonsai That's sounds right to me!!!

@@TheBonsaiZone I'm going with it!

Thanks! I think you are absolutely correct. I was able to find a picture and it appears identical especially the way the new leaves unsheathe.

I use a number of different types but my main one is any good slow release pelleted fertilizer. I have three different brands and they all work equally well so pick up one that's available in your area and you should be good to go

Is there a tree you want me to turn around?

You are so right! I never even saw it until you pointed it out to me. It appears at about :50 and is visible until about 1:00 and then reappears at about 2:02. I will definitely use that as my front since I was leaning in that direction anyway.

I used to grow landscape plants for a living 30 years ago and I guess it's still in my blood! I love to propagate new plants and I feel like there's a certain connection with a bonsai that I have grown and nurtured from the very beginning versus one purchased somewhere else.

I'm very happy with them.

Hooray! Another milestone reached! I know this is probably reaching but I'm setting my sights on 500 by the end of the year!

Thank you so much Mama! I'm so glad you are enjoying my videos.

Stumps are good! I have me share of stumps too.

I appreciate the kind words!

Thank you so much! Only six more to go! I have the feeling that more and more people are discovering my channel and hopefully I'm providing something of value.

@@WoodcrestBonsai I think yours is one of the best.

@@kevinwilkes5969 Wow, thank you man. You really made my day!

If you haven't already please check out the earliest vids of this tree. It's quite the transformation.

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I saw that video and they looked like real thimbles. They must need to have drain holes drilled. I think in Japan this tiny size it called "finger tip" bonsai. Just as an FYI I got my pots from House of Bonsai in Cal.

@WoodcrestBonsai yeah just a diamond hole saw bit will cut through ceramic if you ever find something that could be used as a pot I do it all the time. I was looking at some thimble or fingertip pots on Amazon. Maybe in the spring I'll get some

I just posted another video on a tiny portulacaria. Please check it out!

They are fun even with the challenges they present.

I have some of the Lilliput ports and they grow so SLOW so I'm thinking of potting up some cuttings.

Thank you!

Of all the trees I got from my friend this is one of my favorites. The bald cypress I'll be working on this winter is just about neck and neck

Since I got this tree with the roots the way they are, there's no telling how they managed to create that form. I'm loving it though!

Yes, I think in time it can grow into a very interesting tree.

I really think this tree has great potential even though it's been through a pretty rough time.

Thank you!

Almost always on an angle, usually about 45 degrees with the highest part of the cut where you expect the new apex to form

It does have a gracefulness based on the movement of the trunk that the others do not possess.

No, premna are not cold hardy at all. If the plant tissues freeze that portion of the plant will die. I had two groups in the ground, one was protected by overhanging branches of an oak tree and the other was more exposed. Because we barely touch freezing the ones under the oak were fine, The one more exposed died basically to the ground. Amazingly, it actually resprouted and is now just one of the most funky premna I have, really not sure what do with it. I will feature it, along with the ones under the oak, in my next video

@@WoodcrestBonsai Thanks for the good information...I need to be careful in my acquisitions and stick to trees I can maintain outside year around...TFS...