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In hot climates, should hinoki cypress grow in akadama or more organic soil?

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Late summer clean up for my elm forest

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.poundncashdown.com/post/132323

An ambitious project for me. It was a lot of fun to figure out. I'm hopeful that it'll grow in and cling to the rock in the future. Getting rid of that wire would be nice.

Once it puts out some growth and shows that it's established, I'll do some semi hard pruning to refine the shape a bit.

The pot is one I formed by hand with a mix of portland cement and perlite dust.

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Going for a Pierneef style

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Before and after. Going for Shakkan style with a twist, literally.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.poundncashdown.com/post/90603

This is a follow up to my previous post linked here.

I’m trying to encourage the trunk to thicken while slowly figuring out which branches to make the main ones and how to balance the overall shape.

I try to let this tree grow out thick and dense with little to no trimming, then chop it back to a state that will let light through to the lower foliage while building the shape. That usually means clipping off upward growing new shoots to push growth into lateral or more downward growing shoots. Rinse and repeat that a couple times a year and we’re here.

I usually propagate most of the cuttings by throwing them in water under a grow light elsewhere.

I'm still lacking some solid, low growing, main branches. Stay tuned for more shenanigans.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.poundncashdown.com/post/79872

This is one of too many Benjaminas. They propagate far too easy for my lizard brain's good.

This tree needs a reduction in foliage and upward growing branches in the upper section. That should help balance out the growth between top and bottom, push some back budding to occur, and let the lower foliage get some proper light.

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Trees in progress

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My first bonsais (lemmy.world)
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Time to start learning how to wire and care for them!

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Relatively new to bonsai, this is mine that I’ve had for about a year. Have not done any pruning. Anyone have tips/tricks to share with a newbie?

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Picture when I first got it. Previous owner did some wiring work but it looked big and a bit odd to my liking.

Big cut to get it into smaller size (and I got lots of cuttings out of it).

Wiring and defoliating to give some movement to the branches. When defoliating a ficus it's better done with scissors so the new grown points are left undamaged.

After one month and seeing the first leaves growth, I repotted to akadama and kiryu 70/30 in the same pot. I rotated a bit the plant when doing so. Ficus are very resilient so it actually started growing better with better soil.

This is 2months after picture, I'm quite happy in how it looks already 😊

I won't work on this ficus more for the time being, just leave it grow strong and develop good radial roots and finer branching.

I'll write another progress post in the future about the "brother" ficus of this one which looked more like a stick and will take more time to look bonsai-y 🤭

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My amber bonsai (discuss.tchncs.de)
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In a Glass dome because of dust

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As the title says. I want to get my first Bonsai, but I cannot decide which one. What can you recommend for indoor placement? What do I need to keep in mind?

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