Ms G - thanks so much, so glad you like bonsai! :smile: More pictures coming up! 
bundesliga - that is a fab seed site!
Thanks for posting it!
clearcutter - you'll have a lot of fun guaranteed. Never started maples from seed as an adult - as a kid the winter did the trick and seedlings would start in the spring. The japanese maples I get are grafted onto a strong root stock, by themselves they have wimpy roots and do not clone.
packn
Thanks my friend, more pictures coming up.
First a couple of trees I've been growing for big trunks. First is a redwood that was started from a burl sometime in the mid 80s, gifted to me in 92. In a 1/2 oak barrel, I think I'll cut it in 2 years and start getting it ready for life in a small pot.
The trunk is nicely tapered and the spots where I removed lower branches are filling in nicely.
Next is a dwarf pomegranate my wife planted 6 years ago. Turns out she's not crazy about the tree, so last year I gave it a good prune and soil prep, and next spring I'm going to air layer a bunch of upper branches. Once they have taken and are in pots, I will cut the trunk 2 feet above the ground and start developing it. I like the roots on this one, looks like a sphinx or dog to me
The trunk on this one is about 1/3 the thickness of the redwood.
I also like difficult plants. I've been growing this star jasmine for many years and it has never taken off. My 0420 grow taught me my water is very alkaline, and I think that is why this plant has been slow. I flushed her with a bunch of pH 5.5 water, then fed her seaweed, she seemed to like it but is still a sad little plant. Hope I can put a smile on her face this year.
And a few of my others - glad you asked packn!
A myrtle. This is the 4rth air layer I have taken off a tree in my friends back yard. It was in a 5 gal pot for 4 years, then transplanted to this ceramic pot last year.
Spring 2004 I had a paper white birch that got ill and died back severely. I cut the trunk at root level and most of the trunk still looked live. I cut the rootball in half, bare rooted, and put one of them in a plastic 5 gallon pot. It developed a strong shoot, pruned back anything else and let her rip. It's been growing gangbusters and base of the trunk is already turning white. Will probably keep this one in the big pot for another year of so.
Here's a wisteria that I picked up very cheap at a bonsai show a couple of years ago. They're a bit finicky - don't like too much or too little water, don't like much ferts, like coarse but not very rich soil.
Last one for tonight is a pair - one the front left a Micro Fuschia - for size comparison I have an 8 oz blue cup in the picture - the flowers are very very tiny. The back left is a Satsuki Azalea, the second picture is the same plant spring 2004, with the same Micro Fuschia on the right - the Fuschia really filled in nicely this year!
Thanks for visiting my little garden!
bundesliga - that is a fab seed site!
Thanks for posting it!clearcutter - you'll have a lot of fun guaranteed. Never started maples from seed as an adult - as a kid the winter did the trick and seedlings would start in the spring. The japanese maples I get are grafted onto a strong root stock, by themselves they have wimpy roots and do not clone.
packn
Thanks my friend, more pictures coming up.
First a couple of trees I've been growing for big trunks. First is a redwood that was started from a burl sometime in the mid 80s, gifted to me in 92. In a 1/2 oak barrel, I think I'll cut it in 2 years and start getting it ready for life in a small pot.
The trunk is nicely tapered and the spots where I removed lower branches are filling in nicely.
Next is a dwarf pomegranate my wife planted 6 years ago. Turns out she's not crazy about the tree, so last year I gave it a good prune and soil prep, and next spring I'm going to air layer a bunch of upper branches. Once they have taken and are in pots, I will cut the trunk 2 feet above the ground and start developing it. I like the roots on this one, looks like a sphinx or dog to me
The trunk on this one is about 1/3 the thickness of the redwood.
I also like difficult plants. I've been growing this star jasmine for many years and it has never taken off. My 0420 grow taught me my water is very alkaline, and I think that is why this plant has been slow. I flushed her with a bunch of pH 5.5 water, then fed her seaweed, she seemed to like it but is still a sad little plant. Hope I can put a smile on her face this year.
And a few of my others - glad you asked packn!
A myrtle. This is the 4rth air layer I have taken off a tree in my friends back yard. It was in a 5 gal pot for 4 years, then transplanted to this ceramic pot last year.
Spring 2004 I had a paper white birch that got ill and died back severely. I cut the trunk at root level and most of the trunk still looked live. I cut the rootball in half, bare rooted, and put one of them in a plastic 5 gallon pot. It developed a strong shoot, pruned back anything else and let her rip. It's been growing gangbusters and base of the trunk is already turning white. Will probably keep this one in the big pot for another year of so.
Here's a wisteria that I picked up very cheap at a bonsai show a couple of years ago. They're a bit finicky - don't like too much or too little water, don't like much ferts, like coarse but not very rich soil.
Last one for tonight is a pair - one the front left a Micro Fuschia - for size comparison I have an 8 oz blue cup in the picture - the flowers are very very tiny. The back left is a Satsuki Azalea, the second picture is the same plant spring 2004, with the same Micro Fuschia on the right - the Fuschia really filled in nicely this year!
Thanks for visiting my little garden!
That Micro Fuschia looks sweet...very nice...I like the Satsuki Azalea as well and the Myrtle and the........ 
I don't expect anything from year to year with my bonsai, but I do expect a harvest from my 420, and I can get a bit impatient - my girls are teaching me patience, and they're doin a good job of it. 
You've inspired me, im goin to try it out. Looks like a hobby i would enjoy. Do you have any recomendations of a good begginner tree?
Thanks - you've got me tongue tied!!! Glad you like the thread.
