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my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-))
#7480533 - 10/03/07 11:18 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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OK so my wife is not to excited because right now there is not one room in my big house that is not filled with plants, cacti, supplies,soil, hydroponic stuff, orchids, orchid supplies, 300 lbs of worm castings and 400 lbs of hpoo (lol) and i could go on all day but i found a new hobby that i like and would like to form a nice collection
BONSAI :-))
i love the little bonsai trees and the art of bonsai :-))
so does anyone else share this hobby and what do you guys think about bonsai trees :-))
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thallus
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: royer]
#7480738 - 10/03/07 12:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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What is it with wags and plants?
I'm a big fan of bonsais and have been to see a few of the famous ones when there on display. There worth tens of thousands for some of the great ones. I don't grow them myself But might if I ever get the money to get an old one.
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: thallus]
#7480769 - 10/03/07 12:12 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I have 2 that both produce really tiny fruit once a year around thanksgiving time. one produces these tangerine like fruits and the other produces limes. :-] They are both 13 years old.
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Dr. uarewotueat
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: deformedreality]
#7480955 - 10/03/07 12:47 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i like bonsai trees, but i dont own any... the cost of nice mature ones is far too much to even tempt me to buy... and im too impatient to grow them from a small size
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: royer]
#7481294 - 10/03/07 02:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I used to have 2 store bought ones (from a real bonsai store, not that cheap crap you see at Walmart) and one I collected from outdoors. I trained the outdoor tree over the course of 2 or 3 years to shrink the leaves and fill out into a miniature broom style. I ended up losing him after not overwintering properly. The other two I lost from neglect. I'm starting to get back into it now.
I have a few books but my real find was from a guy on Craigslist a couple years ago that had a collection of International Bonsai Journals and Golden State Bonsai Federation bi-monthly newsletters from about 1980 to 1987. It has kept me occupied and is an incredible source of information. The Int. Bonsai stuff features one type of tree per quarter and will give you detailed step by steps for training one from seed.
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cpw1971
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: royer]
#7481357 - 10/03/07 02:51 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I want all my trees to be fucking huuuuuuge  it sucks frost will kill them though
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sublimistri
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: cpw1971]
#7481450 - 10/03/07 03:16 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yea man bonsais are cool, theres a japanese red maple tree that makes a nice bonsai.
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The leaves look a little similare to MJ's leaves.
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: sublimistri]
#7481747 - 10/03/07 04:49 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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When my friends from Japan came to visit a couple months ago I happily showed them my bonsai. I thought they would be like "cool" but instead they looked at me like I was crazy and sed "I thought only really old men with nothing to do kept bonsai?!"-heh If you want a bonsai you can keep indoors more than a couple days at a time I suggest Ficus! They take much less care than most bonsai. JRM's look awesome especially when trained into bonsai, but they can't stay inside for very long and need ALOT of attention. I had 2 very nice Japanese maples being trained into bonsai that died when I left them in my friends care while my wife and I went to Seattle for a month. Bonsai are great tho, and if you would like a source for affordable nice specimens P.M. me, North America's largest bonsai farm is just minutes from my house.
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: Knoa6]
#7482959 - 10/03/07 09:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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i used to really be into bonsai, more than anythign else....like uare said its fucking expensive! when i moved to asia i dropped that hobby....saved a lot of money since lol.
although very common and worth nothing my favourites were ficus bonsai...so fast to see very cool looking results! litle root sensitive but all around pretty good bonsai. i also like fruit trees over otehrs 
i swear royer, you start posting pics and i get back into it...my wife will have a word or two for you 
anyway, what you got growing right now? you like cold or warm types?
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cpw1971
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: Knoa6]
#7483188 - 10/03/07 11:01 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
Knoa6 said: If you want a bonsai you can keep indoors more than a couple days at a time I suggest Ficus!
yeah but if it crashes on your car it won't be covered on your insurance. hehe that was in a commercial
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Re: my fellow gardenites , i have a new hobby :-)) [Re: cpw1971]
#7483753 - 10/04/07 04:48 AM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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hahaha i see that commercial all the time
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