/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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Calamondin Orange
My calamondin/calamansi tree I’ve been training for a few months. Turning out quite well!
17:08 UTC
Looking for opinions on Aqua Soil
Hi all. My daughter was discarding about a quart of Aqua Soil from her aqua scape aquarium and it looked to me like something that would work for either a bonsai soil additive or a top fertilizer. It is tiny hard soil bb’s, pure black in color. What do you pros think?
16:05 UTC
How should I style this boxwood?
I'm unsure of how to proceed with this boxwood. Any ideas appreciated
15:55 UTC
[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2024 week 26]
#[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2024 week 26]
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.
06:50 UTC
Which is better starting Shimpaku?
06:30 UTC
People are really greedy on Facebook Marketplace
And It’s not even styled
00:26 UTC
Built a table for my bonsai...
21:35 UTC
Woah
19:28 UTC
Looking for bonsai nurseries in London
Hi all,
I am planning a trip to London, UK. Are there any bonsai gardens in the city?
What do you recommend?
19:22 UTC