Anyone here like bonsais? + traditional content

Bladenoobie1

Bladenoobie1

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I've been trying to get into bonsai's and coming this spring I will be repotting some and begin training and pruning. Stopped by a nursery and thought I'd share some pictures:

*The large large tree is a korean hornbean and was one of the displayed bonsai trees also much far out of my budget.
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- Julian
 
Cool. I like bonsais, my neighbour used to make them, he came up with some really cool designs. Love that barlow too :D
 
If this thread is to remain here and open, the focus must be upon the knives. If it becomes a discussion of bonsai does and don'ts, it will get closed or moved.
 
I collected old trees from rock faces for about 10 years as well as taking young trees and torturing them in to the old shapes.:D
If I didn't live in the frozen boonies I would get back into it. I have a few trees in the ground that I have been shaping which is much easier than trying to box them and keep them over the winter in tiny pots. Here are some of the specialized tools used in the art of bonsai.

Best regards

Robin
 
Bonsais have always seemed cool to me. Don't know a thing about them but I was given this little ginsing ficus a while ago. It's not very full right now, recently trimmed and lack of good sunlight lately. I have a tendency to kill plants, but I'm hoping to keep this one alive. Here it is with my Erickson stag EDC...knives take less care thankfully...little oil and a touch up the edge is all it ever needs.

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I love Bonsai's but I remain a rank amateur. I am still learning with the $25 and less Bonsais until I get the hank of it. That Hornbean is amazing, my guess is in excess of 5K???
 
Its a coffin barlow, I think I made a thread about it before. I really wish I can collect trees, but in at least here in southern california most trees are protected meaning that if I were to collect trees I would need to get them from private land and have permission from the owner. The small tree pictured above is a oriental sweet gum. Its already been trained to grip the rock, but it's still a relatively young tree and needs to grow more.

Getting into more traditional knife content, who makes good quality traditional pruning knives?
 
wolfmann601 said:
I love Bonsai's but I remain a rank amateur. I am still learning with the $25 and less Bonsais until I get the hank of it. That Hornbean is amazing, my guess is in excess of 5K???
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Yep, $8000 to be precise. I currently have a little ficus(like the one pictured above), the oriental sweet gum I posted, and a juniper. I would like to grab a maple as well. I intend to plant my ficus in the ground, let it develop a bit more girth and more spread before returning it to a bonsai pot. I also have a benjamin ficus outside that my chameleon (now deceased) used to live on. The ficus used to be so small, but over the course of 10 years have developed an interesting trunk, lots of exposed roots, and character making it a potential bonsai candidate. I'm still too inexperienced to work on it though.

Also @Pipeman, where would I buy traditional japanese pruning tools online? Some of the stuff from my nursery tends to be overpriced so I'm looking elsewhere to purchase them.
 
Tina are regarded as the Top Banana I believe, but there's lots of nice pruners and budding/grafting knives out there.
 
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