/r/Bonsai
A sub dedicated to bonsai trees and associated plants and art styles. Focusing on bonsai techniques (growing, styling, wiring, repotting), sharing & critiquing member trees, bonsai care and general help. Get more trees!
New to /r/bonsai? Please start here.
/r/bonsai rules:
- User flair is required for all new posts, and strongly preferred for everyone else. If you comment regularly, please fill in your flair! Flair is required if you are giving advice.
- MANY beginner questions belong in the weekly beginner's thread. Please read here for more details on where to post questions. Please click the "Report" button to inform the mods of posts that you feel violate this rule.
- Please read the Beginner's Walkthrough in the wiki before posting for the first time. The wiki answers many common questions. If a topic is discussed in the wiki, please post follow up questions to the weekly beginner's thread.
- Please be civil! Our community is based on mutual respect, and comments that violate this may be removed without warning at the discretion of the moderators. No personal insults. Constructive debate is good; name calling is not.
- Please provide constructive feedback in comments. Try to add value to the conversation and aim to improve your fellow growers skills.
- Hate has no place here. Harassment on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, sexual preference, age, etc is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
- ALWAYS post photos of your trees when asking questions
- Downvotes are for off-topic comments only, NOT because you disagree with the comment. This helps the mods ensure that correct information is being presented.
Topics of frequent interest
- What are bonsai and how are they developed?
- Troubleshooting sick trees
- Watering Advice
- Repotting Advice
- Pruning Advice
- Growing from seed
- Growing bonsai indoors
- Floating bonsai & water bonsai
What kind of tree is this?
If you're not sure what kind of tree you have, read this section of the wiki. If you're still not sure, stop by and ask about it in the Weekly Beginner's thread.
Looking for more information?
There is an additional resources page in the wiki. It is highly recommended that you read through the links provided there, especially the bonsai4me articles.
Bonsai Artists & Blogs
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My bonsai is growing a little out of proportion. Do you have any tips on how I can prune the tree?
14:18 UTC
Trying to remember a term
I've been racking my brain trying to think of a word l've heard used in the context of black pine's but really applicable to any old tree. Is there a specific adjective perhaps Japanese used to describe the fissured bark of a mature pine tree? I remember hearing it in a video but it's doing my head in. Thanks in advance
04:35 UTC
Cherries under my cherry mezzotint!
Barbados cherry(C), F. benjamina ’too little’, ficus refusal.
00:47 UTC
[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2024 week 44]
#[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2024 week 44]
Welcome to the weekly beginner’s thread. This thread is used to capture all beginner questions (and answers) in one place. We start a new thread every week on Friday late or Saturday morning (CET), depending on when we get around to it. We have a 6 year archive of prior posts here…
Here are the guidelines for the kinds of questions that belong in the beginner's thread vs. individual posts to the main sub.
##Rules:
- POST A PHOTO if it’s advice regarding a specific tree/plant. See the PHOTO section below on HOW to do this.
- TELL US WHERE YOU LIVE - better yet, fill in your flair.
- READ THE WIKI! – over 75% of questions asked are directly covered in the wiki itself. Read the WIKI AGAIN while you’re at it.
- Read past beginner’s threads – they are a goldmine of information.
- Any beginner’s topic may be started on any bonsai-related subject.
- Answers shall be civil or be deleted
- There is always a chance your question doesn’t get answered – try again next week…
- Racism of any kind is not tolerated either here or anywhere else in /r/bonsai
##Photos
- Post an image using the new (as of Q4 2022) image upload facility which is available both on the website and in the Reddit app and the Boost app.
- Post your photo via a photo hosting website like imgur, flickr or even your onedrive or googledrive and provide a link here.
- Photos may also be posted to /r/bonsaiphotos as new LINK (either paste your photo or choose it and upload it). Then click your photo, right click copy the link and post the link here.
- If you want to post multiple photos as a set that only appears be possible using a mobile app (e.g. Boost)
Beginners’ threads started as new topics outside of this thread are typically locked or deleted, at the discretion of the Mods.
22:42 UTC
The Four Horsemen of the Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread.
20:29 UTC
My 17yo Japanese maple changing colours.
17:23 UTC
My little juniper
16:54 UTC
Anyone have a tree that you love but other think not?
12:42 UTC
Mirai missing at the PBE?
Not to be a gossip, but does anyone know why Ryan and the crew were missing from the Expo this last weekend? I was real psyched to meet them all, and then there's not a sign of them.
They posted a YouTube video today with a Korean Hornbeam and Ryan mentioned the PBE at the beginning like they were planning on going. Seems like something happened last second.
02:06 UTC
Bonsai literature
Can anyone recommend any books that they find useful covering all aspects of it? Something to refer to perhaps.
20:56 UTC
What an awesome idea!🎃🎃
Happy Halloween!👻🎃
16:30 UTC
Repost of my Halloween display
Happy Halloween, hope you all get some good treats
14:33 UTC