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Could you give me more details about why? I've read online that it is possible to grow a japanese maple indoors, but that a wisteria would be much harder. I live in a cold state (Colorado) and can provide it with the dormant weather it needs each year. I have a humidifier in my room as wellBofhSkull wrote: Wisteria and maple are not indoor-compatible plants, and they'll quickly die if kept indoor.
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Ironfist wrote: Could you give me more details about why? I've read online that it is possible to grow a japanese maple indoors, but that a wisteria would be much harder. I live in a cold state (Colorado) and can provide it with the dormant weather it needs each year. I have a humidifier in my room as well
In general, the only plants that can do indoor are tropical plants. Plants native to temperate climate need seasonal change. That alone (even without citing air exchange, humidity level and sun) means that if the indoor environment is good for the plant, it's not good for you, and the other way around.
While I have no doubt you can in some circumstances keep a maple indoor and let it survive, bonsai need to be strong for what you need to do to them. A plant merely "surviving somehow" will hardly ever be healthy enough to be grown as a bonsai.
If you need to keep them inside, rely on tropical material that can do reasonably well inside.
If you want to go with maple and wisteria, you'll have to keep them outside and arm yourself with what you'll need to let them survive the winters you have over there...
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So is there any kind of bonsai that would work for what I want? I really wanted some color, but a nice black pine or juniper would still achieve the feng shui I'm hoping forBofhSkull wrote:
Ironfist wrote: Could you give me more details about why? I've read online that it is possible to grow a japanese maple indoors, but that a wisteria would be much harder. I live in a cold state (Colorado) and can provide it with the dormant weather it needs each year. I have a humidifier in my room as well
In general, the only plants that can do indoor are tropical plants. Plants native to temperate climate need seasonal change. That alone (even without citing air exchange, humidity level and sun) means that if the indoor environment is good for the plant, it's not good for you, and the other way around.
While I have no doubt you can in some circumstances keep a maple indoor and let it survive, bonsai need to be strong for what you need to do to them. A plant merely "surviving somehow" will hardly ever be healthy enough to be grown as a bonsai.
If you need to keep them inside, rely on tropical material that can do reasonably well inside.
If you want to go with maple and wisteria, you'll have to keep them outside and arm yourself with what you'll need to let them survive the winters you have over there...
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So is there any kind of bonsai that would work for what I want? I really wanted some color, but a nice black pine or juniper would still achieve the feng shui I'm hoping for
Did you even read what Bofhskull just told you? How do you think that you can keep pines and junipers indoor? You just got told that only tropical trees can live indoor.
I think you should do what Mickey84 says. Read one the subject. You can find all your answers on this website. Or buy some plastic pine "bonsai" for your feng shui.
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I'm now looking at a kit that has three types of seeds meant for indoor growth: purple orchid, sacred fig, and flambouyant tree. Which one of these do you think I'd have the most success with in the environment provided?Mickey84 wrote: Here’s some info on indoor 名媛直播
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There's absolutely no need to be rude about it, as i clearly said I'm completely new to this and don't know which ones are temperate or tropical. Pine trees grow in Colorado, so how was i supposed to know it wouldn't work? I'm looking for support, not negativityHansen wrote:
So is there any kind of bonsai that would work for what I want? I really wanted some color, but a nice black pine or juniper would still achieve the feng shui I'm hoping for
Did you even read what Bofhskull just told you? How do you think that you can keep pines and junipers indoor? You just got told that only tropical trees can live indoor.
I think you should do what Mickey84 says. Read one the subject. You can find all your answers on this website. Or buy some plastic pine "bonsai" for your feng shui.