Anyone Interested in a Bonsai Forum?

Please post if you are interested, we need to take a count here.

I think suiseki should be included as a part of Bonsai.

Dave -- If we have enough people, is it possible to have the capability of posting pics?

Thanks,
Tim

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HAHA Edward Scissorhand.

I've been called the Hacker now and then. You should see the hacking and chopping I did on an azelea...see "How not to wire a tree" in the photo forum. You definitely would not want to see what I did to a Chinese hackberry, a red maple, and...

Tim - I managed to kill the only bonsai I ever had (After it was dead I did spray paint it chrome and keep it for awhile tho).

I could really use some discussion to give me confidence to try again :)

RiseAnn,
Your tree will live forever! LOL

I killed my first juniper when I tried to trim, wire, reduce the roots, and pot the same day. I managed to keep some alive for almost 2 years now.

I would love to learn about that! I bought one and I also killed the poor little thing. What an interesting concept the bonsai is. Would love someone to invent that concept on all my favorite trees!!
Janice

I like everyone else killed the only one I had.
Tim, tells us what it takes to keep em alive! LOL!

Jody,

It's simple and yet not so simple...do NOT water on a fix schedule. Check the soil, water only if it dry in the upper 1/2". I stick either a toothpick or a plant label in the soil and use it as a gauge. Also most trees should be outside.

Most often when you get a bonsai (mallsai) from a mall or store (target, walmart, franks,lowes, homedepot, ect), it is half dead already either the care taker over water or under water.

Bert---- How long have you been practicing the art of bonsai?

i would be interested too
i once got a bonsai for my birthday from old boyfriend.
i left for a rugby tornament and left my bonsai with my (new) boyfriend. is very good with plants and started much of my interest in them. i came back and it was just about dead. hmmm???
my roommated finished it off

that was the end of my bonsaiing for a while.
but lately they have sparked interest again especially since i really got into gardening. i am trying to get an internship with a bonsai grower. and a contract for credit at my school.

it would be wonderful to learn from all of you too.

quynh

I would love to learn. I want a Japanese maple, whisteria and azalea. Don't know if I have the patients but I would love to try.

Angel

If this becomes a go then you should give us biweekly lessons or something Tim.

Haha I'm a newbie too, I have only been doing bonsai for about 2 years but have wanted to get into it years ago.

Bert is the man!

Do I count??

I have a small tree that I'm trying to force into being a bonsai. It is a locally grown Red Cedar (as in naturalized tree). I dug it up when it was only about 4 or 5 inches tall, it was in a bad place for a tree. They can get very very tall and wide. But I'm going to try and keep it cut back to a small bonsai.

It would be nice to have a special forum for bonsai's.

~RaeBuckner~

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Add me would love to learn more.

I do bonsai since 1967