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I'm just starting out in bonsai, I don't have any tress right now. It seems like most things I could try doing would need to be done in the Spring. Making cuttings, air layering, yamadori... all seem to be spring activities from my understanding.

The only thing I can think about doing before winter starts to get into the bonsai hobby, is to collect seeds from forest trees and try stratifying/scarifiying them in trays overwinter. Any other winter bonsai activities? I'm thinking about starting several varieties of trees in trays, several of each.

Winter is a great time to research...or take a course etc. If you were goint to try and collect a tree in the wild, winter would also be a good time for that. With some species winter is a good time to do major pruning first because you can see the branch structures better and second because sap flow is slower than in spring/summer.

Winter is a perfect time to work on junipers, larch for initial styling. So you could go out to a landscaping nursery and get a few trees to parctice wiring on. Do not repot etc. Just get the trees. Find the start of the roots, and work on tree design and wiring.

And of course.. Spent hours reading. If you have the option, go out to some exhibition and see bonsai. Just to make you realize the size of good bonsai trees, and put yourself on the track of realizing.. Seed and cuttings are fun, but 10-year plans before you get to doing much bonsai work.

RyanPine wrote: The only thing I can think about doing before winter starts to get into the bonsai hobby, is to collect seeds from forest trees and try stratifying/scarifiying them in trays overwinter. Any other winter bonsai activities? I'm thinking about starting several varieties of trees in trays, several of each.

Collecting seed is not a bonsai activity. Collecting seeds to grow trees to grow future bonsai from is not a bad idea, but it's a very long term plan. 名媛直播 are not created by growing seeds in trays. Use the coming months to study.

Join a local bonsai group, or find somebody who has been practicing long enough to have ten live trees.

Watch them do things like wire, etc. Don't necessarily copy, but understand what they do and how it will help you do what you want to do.