/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!
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/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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Moving from high elevation to Low with bonsia
Hey all the bonsia I have had have been with me the last few years living at 7,500ft in elevation. Is there anything i need to do or should be aware of when moving to low elevation with them in November? Also drastically changing growing zone. I have some juniper, an engleman spruce, olive, and two dawn redwoods.
22:41 UTC
Can't stop adding trees
I keep finding more trees around my property and now I'm up to 7. I feel like maybe it's enough to count as an actual forest bonsai.
21:57 UTC
Can't stop adding trees
I keep finding more trees around my property and now I'm up to 7. I feel like maybe it's enough to count as an actual forest bonsai.
21:56 UTC
White Pine
Got some moss, adjusted the angle some, moved the branches down. Picked this up from the woods
21:40 UTC
Picked up another operculicarya decaryi. Now I just have to make a pot for it
16:08 UTC
Am I the only one who enjoys winter and bringing in the tropical?
I love being able to show off the bonsai to guests inside the house instead of outside.
15:24 UTC
Where to buy Ginkgo trees (Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina)
Does anyone know of a place that sells ginkgo bonsai in the north Georgia, East Tennessee, or west NC area? I love the leaf shape and haven’t had luck finding somewhere
15:19 UTC
Ginkgo fall colors
14:29 UTC
Boxwood yardarori
So my dad got rid of it’s 30+ years boxwood hedge last spring because it was entirely eaten by moths each year and slowly dying.
Without much hopes I took one home and surprisingly it shot new leaves during summer.
- Is there any hope it’s alive or is it just residual energy from the tree?
- Anything special I should do during winter?
- Should it be alive, can it grow new leaves from the upper section, or will I have to start again from the trunk?
Pics are when I collected it and how it’s going now.
08:57 UTC
I leveled up famous bonsai master Dan Robinson to 50 in Fallout Shelter
22:25 UTC
Live Oak Concept, Yaupon Holly with Hanging Moss
Collected 6 years ago, initially styled as wind-swept but I restyled about 4 years ago. I entered it into the Houston Bonsai Society Annual Show this year and was honored to win the “People’s Choice” award. Definitely not very “traditional”, let me know what you think.
21:44 UTC
Red maple yardadori 4th year in training. Fall colors.
Native red maple pre-bonsai showing off in the afternoon sunlight.
20:57 UTC
Little Yamadori
I'm not very good with my trees, so I don't know the species but I found this in the woods in my back yard. Trimmed it up to be a small literati
19:40 UTC
Dwarf jade I chopped back in the spring
19:30 UTC
[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2024 week 41]
#[Bonsai Beginner’s weekly thread –2024 week 41]
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.
19:04 UTC
Cork Bark Jades inside for UK autumn and winter
Time to dig out the grow lights
18:10 UTC