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Hello, I am brand new to bonsai and have bought a couple of books and have spent several hours searching the internet. I have noticed some information is hard to find when it comes to specific times of the year for cuttings and planting seeds. My plans are to start one or 2 indoor plants from seed for the fun of it, and maybe start a couple of fast-growing outdoor ones from cuttings, and then going to lowes and picking up some young trees to practice "instant bonsai". The plants I have decided on for the indoors are the Chinese elm, Ficus of some sort, and maybe Fuchsia. My question is where does everyone typically purchase their cuttings and seeds on the internet, and what time of year would I place cuttings. I live in Mississippi in the US and do not have a nursery very close to my vicinity. I'm not even sure if I made the effort to drive to one whether they would have what I'm interested in. Sorry for the lengthy question, and thank you. -The Newbie

I do not buy cuttings. I usually run into them at a club, a garden, ..

Indoors is asking for trouble, to be honest. So unless you really know what you are doing with plants, and are willing to invest in lightboxes etc, I would not recommend going for growing trees indoors. It is a lot harder to keep plants truely healthy indoors. Considering your location, I would say you can keep pretty much all specis outside, so why would youo even consider growing indoors? (And.. why grow ficus from seed? You must have loads of trees where you can just grab a branch and root it?)

For seeds I am in Europe so I will use different dealers. Just be aware that you are growing a tree. So buy tree seeds. Do not enter the 名媛直播 Seed pitfall. (There is nothing special about them). So go online, find yourself a seed dealer such as and buy a gramm of seeds. That will get you typically 20-100 seeds. 1/3 might germinate on your first attempt. You grow them. you play around. Half of them dies again. And at the end of year two you have some 10 plants leftover from the original 100 seeds.

I would say, go outside in autumn, collect seeds from your local trees and start with those.
You can be sure there suitable for your climate, the seeds are "fresh" and the cost is nothing.

I only wanted to grow from seed because of the pride of it eventually. And I wanted indoors because of viewing it and we live in an apartment so not much space. But thank you for your help means a lot

HestonCV wrote: . I live in Mississippi in the US and do not have a nursery very close to my vicinity.

Depending on where you are in Mississippi,of course, there is Brussel's in Olive Branch, just south of Memphis. The stuff they have mail order looks a little mallsai to me, but the greenhouse area was pretty good the last time I was there. That means there are thousands of trees for you to buy, all kind of species, and assorted ages. The older ones are expensive.

HestonCV wrote: I only wanted to grow from seed because of the pride of it eventually. And I wanted indoors because of viewing it and we live in an apartment so not much space. But thank you for your help means a lot

It’s not that I don’t get it, but you say you’re new to bonsai and yet you decide to start from seeds; apart from being way more problematic that it seems (to have good chances of success you should plant a hundred, and you say you don’t have much room), it’s the type of project that can only turn into a decent bonsai in two decades at least. Ain’t it a bit much for a newly approached interest?!?

Also, while indoor bonsai can indeed be a thing, it’s way harder than “standard bonsai” (that is, indeed, outdoor).

So I humbly suggest: if what you actually want to do is indeed bonsai, you need to approach it the way bonsai needs to be approached (outdoor, get a few plants compatible with newbies and your climate, start learning how to keep them healthy first, then how to apply bonsai techniques). What YOU would like bonsai to be is, at this stage, irrelevant, and can only bring you to failure, as you’re deciding to start from something even experienced practitioners would struggle with...

Ofc, take this as a suggestion only, as that’s what it is...