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Come nel giardinaggio , anche nella prima impostazione di una pianta a bonsai , non si dovrebbero vedere mutilazioni come in questo caso

I salute your fallen cuttings buddy. I always take Chinese Elm cuttings in August. They're still going strong on my windowsill in the sealed up Costa Coffee cups with small drainage holes and only water them at least once per week (until Spring). I didn't use any bonsai soil, just regular soil.

I would n't call that a failure by any means. But too much moisture thats for sure. Maybe next time use a large pot with some decent drainage and cover with a plastic bag.

You could try again with soil that holds less water, maybe just sand.

Well done Bill at least you given it a try not 100% successful but the one thing you have learned a better understanding well done you for showing the reality good luck with the successful ones buddy 🫶

Hi Bill, thanks for sharing your experience with these cuttings. You're right about the soggy soil causing the roots to rot away. It can be so tricky to try and manage in that container without drainage. You could try putting a few of those small pots, each with several cuttings, inside the aquarium, sitting on a little layer of gravel. That could prevent the cuttings from sitting in the soggy soil. I don't know if the aquarium is tall enough for all that, but maybe worth a try. Wish you all the best of luck with them, whatever you do..

good job. keep us updated

Happy New Year Bill.

Merry Christmas and Happy new year Bill to you and your family looking forward to seeing your projects 2025 I bought a label printer for my trees great bit of kit thanks to you Bill keep up the great work buddy 🫶

Great tags. I've just bought a box of metal tags to put on my many starter trees. Glad to see your success with crab apple root cuttings, because I want to try that with mine.

Merry Christmas Bill to you and your family. As well as a very happy New year 🎊 I hope that 2025 is good to you. I love the plans! Good luck to you mate 👍

Merry Christmas Bill! Hope you and your trees have a great new year!

My plan for 2025 is to start using this label maker for my trees.

Good tagging system Bill. I wish I'd done something similar but I was lazy and I honestly didn't think far ahead. I have my videos dated that are saved on the laptop under each playlist. But I had an issue a while ago and lost a lot of older videos from the laptop. Laptop issues. The videos are still on UA-cam but I have no access to the original if I ever want to go in and take anything from them and reedit for a future video.

Thanks and Hope you had a great Christmas and a very prosperous New Year...Sequim, WA...

Hey cool! My neighbor has one of these in his yard and he gave me some apples to grow!

What you need to do is study, learn and then post videos on you tube on how to bonsai

A great idea - I have found the big issue is the plastic sticks often crack and snap after a decent winter :)

Thanks Bill. Very useful.

Brilliant tagging system. Sometimes I wish I had done something similar to keep track and document, but then I just tell myself a lot of my new smaller trees come and go, and those I had for a while I don't even recall when and where I got them anyway. Goal of bonsai is to make them seem old so the actual age is arbitrary. But it would be nice to know!

Whenever I decide to move my trees to a bigger pot I remove all the old soil/medium it was in...tease out all the roots to form a radial pattern...trim them if they're too long...fill the pot about 3/4 full...place the tree in the pot making sure the roots are all spread out...start to fill the pot...making sure the soil is around the new roots by poking a wee stick around to fill any wee gaps...repeat that till the pot is full...give it a really good watering...wait 2 mins...water again....put in more soil if watering has compacted it down. DONE. I have done what you mentioned in the past and will continue to do is completely submerge my trees in water, but I ONLY do that in summer. It works well for my Chinese Elm and Fukien Tea trees.

What kind of tree was the first one you submerged into the tub of water(blue rectangular pot)...Good information...Thanks for sharing...Sequim, Wa...

Love it Bill ! Awesome progress and nice organised collection. I wish you success with seeds ! Keep us updated. Are you from Scotland ?

😢 it’ll recover next year

Since its fall this is probably normal sometimes Japanese maple leaves go brown rather than fall color /dry on the tree due to weather conditions it even happens on mature trees and all trees aren’t equal even if they are the same variety just leave it be it’ll be fine come next spring

I did the same last year. I have around a dozen seedlings to pot up this spring. Great video, thanks.

A great video Bill. Very clever. Might just do that myself. Perhaps Father Christmas may bring me one of the printers.

Can you get bigger sized labels if needed?

Cool system Bill! That label maker looks pretty decent. Thank you for sharing your set up

I think you have inspired me to finally label and track my trees.

less than a month ago I got a 7ft Paul's Scarlet from the end of season sale at my local garden centre for £10! cant wait til the spring.

My maple leaves are coming out twisted and mutated. Any ideas?

In my experience Bill you should have some success with these seeds. That labelling gadget looks really good. What is it called and where did you get it?

Good luck bill

Nice one Bill, I hope they germinate for you!

Peter is the true Bonsai Master, I've bought 5 trees from him. The first one which I still have is the Fukien Tea. Unfortunately, my Cotoneaster died. No idea why as they're supposed to be pretty hardy trees. Hopefully these seeds take for you.

My Acer in the Bonsai pot is in a slightly different state. There's a few buds which should lay dormant for the next few months. A few of the leaves turned that beautiful deep red. There's still the old leaves from this year and you've just done what I'm going to do at the weekend - defoliate the whole thing. Looks like your Acer will survive...hopefully 👍🏻

I think your maple is just fine..just in case keep it away from other acers...

I enjoyed your video. Keep up the good work.

that looks like a great idea.

yeah the old katsura has some great character. I must have well over a 100 bonsai/pre- bonsai including many maples but know katsura!

Nice one Bill 💪 I always appreciate the effort you go to to do a good job, no matter how small it may be. I'd love to know your background, are you in the trade?

Great update Bill, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. No problems with me from the technical side. All seemed ok with the microphone. I love your biggest and oldest katsura. Did you buy that as garden centre stock or from a bonsai specific place? You've done a great job with it.

I've only got 2 Acers. The one I keep in a Japanese pot is kept indoors and still had its leaves. The larger one which is about 18 inches is still in its pot and that's currently outside with no leaves. I've heard that if you cover the pots with bubble wrap, this will protect the roots and help stop the soil from going completly solid. I haven't tried it myself yet, but temps got down to about -5 in Glasgow, so I'll have to do it at some point. Cheers buddy 👍🏻

I would definitely make a feature of the dead part of the Katsura. I would use some lime sulphur to whiten it up even though lime sulphur is seldom used on deciduous trees. The internodal length on acers must be kept as short as possible for ramification, as you are well aware.

Thanks for sharing your challenges! This is how we all learn

What I did with my Horse Chestnuts was... Get a big pot... Layer of soil then on top of that, lay about 10 chestnuts. Another layer of soil, then chestnuts and repeat. Leave it outside in a shaded area and cover the pot with mesh to stop cats, foxes and such. Leave it till late March. Carefully remove the chestnuts from the pot and hopefully you should have them sprouting. Hope this helps.

Is this Aesculus hippocastanum youre talking about. Tray them up, 1 conker per 10cm pot free draining grow mix, barely covered then play in a cold frame. By early spring they should be up.

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