Do you have access to Floresant Lighting. some times that helps in case you don't have enough sunlight. You can get them very reasonable . Sometimes you have to use artificial lights and hopefully this helps. Those trees are really nice. Thanks for the pic.
Charleen
Passiflora bonsai
We can do this together then, huh? I'll get your pic
of the JP, it is more a natural, but that is what they are going for.
Isn't it?
Cumulus79,
Here is the JM that needs wiring.
Charleen,
I have also (had) fluorecent lighting here. I have tried it with two spots last year, and it worked great. But after a couple of months the lamps were loosing efficiency and another disadvantage is that the plants needed to be placed really close to the lamps to get any benefit from them. This means that I would need hundreds of lamps to light all of them. I have choosen the five rarest plants and put them around the two lamps while the hundreds of other plants vanished in complete darkness.
Maybe it's not 100% bonsai that I'm creating, but I'm trying to get as much tips as possible from the bonsai forums to make it possible to grow tropical trees in my greenhouse which would otherwise not be possible to grow in my country because they would get too big to grow or move into greenhouses and covered places. This counts specially for my Nangka tree, which has never been seen or known flowering/fruiting in Belgium. I hope to grow the very first Belgian Nangka fruit in history that way :)
Things like carefully wiring, growing the roots over rocks, professional shapes in ying-yang- harmony, special bonsai containers etc will only be applied if the plants start looking really ugly, but I may do some experimenting with cheap and easy to get practice- plants...
You can control the size of your plants by the size of yor flowerpots you put them in.
If you put them in the ground they will reach for the sky, but in a pot, they are limited by the size.
So that would not require any wiring unless you just want to try for a different shape.
Let me check and see if we can redirect this so no one will get upset in what we are discussing. O.k.?
Charleen
Cumulus, let's go over to Garden Talk,
I opened a thread, Controlling tree size.
Maybe someone can help you there. O.K.?
I have been interested in and dabbling with Bonsai for somewhere around 50 years and kno't really know a whole lot. What I do know I learned from books and here on DG. I have lost quite a few in the past few years because of watering problems.
Cumulus, I think your Passiflora bonsai is great, and to get blooms is wonderful. The few bonsai that I have left are stored for the winter in my 'plant room' a room on north side of garage, that is kept just above freezing. I don't have any in my gh, unless I count a
dwarfish type of Crassula in a 5" pot. It has been in the same pot for probably 5years, has a what I only know as Pencil cactus planted at the base. good luck with your bonsai.
Donna