The really old ones have had alot of care and dedication put into them for alot of years I'v seen some for sale for over $7000
can you grow your own bonsai trees from shoots or will they just get big?
you can take a large tree and make a bonsai out of it, ive dug a 10foot maple out of the ground before and chopped in down to 2ft in winter when it was dormant and just waited for new shoots to come out in the spring, chose,kept and wired the ones i liked and after 2 yrs i had a 2 ft bonsai that looked exactly like the original 10 ft one.
I would love to see some pics of it if thats ok, along with your Pork Jackson Fig?
Mine is a Port Jackson, very small at the moment, long way to go yet.
ill take some soon and pm them to you, if you want your PJ fig to get bigger quickly then put in a normal much larger pot with just some normal potting mix and fertilize regularly especially whilst its warm. it will grow much,much faster. leave it there for a year or two and you can practice wiring and trimming whilst its growing. read up on how to trim and wire the roots and in a few yrs when your ready, transplant it back into a bonsai pot with proper bonsai soil.
remember bonsais require a lot of regular fertilizing as the bonsai potting mixes tend to be mostly small rocks and pebbles and cant hold too much nutrients.
Thanks heaps for the tip. Will it be ok to put into a larger pot in the middle of summer? Wouldn't it shock the plant?.
i was talkin to a guy who grows bonsais and he trimms the roots to stunt there growth (keep the tree small)
does anyone else do this?
Harry
Decided on a Sargent Juniper.
Are tools (leaf cutters, trunk benders, trimmers etc.) essential?
Small leaf cutters (anything small and sharp enough to prune unwanted leafs and branches) are essential.
Junipers are very nice. Don't worry about the copper wire to bend branches and trunks unless you really want to change their shape. I'm not going to bend or train the branches on mine until I have enough confidence in just growing them.
Good luck, and post pics when you get it.
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