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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70183
Hi,
My children all chipped in and bought me a bonsai tree growing kit from Grow Buddha a couple of weeks ago.
I followed the instructions to grow the Chinese Black Pine trees in the providing pot. I put all the seeds in one pot which is what they did on the tutorials.
A couple of weeks have past and they've actually grow a bit, much to my surprise. I'm wondering if I should've planted them all together or not? I really have no idea what I'm doing here, closest I've come to growing any plants is cutting the grass with a lawn mower, I have absolutely zero experience.
But I'd love to try and make this a bit of a success.
I've attached a picture of how they are now, any advice will be extremely gratefully received.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
My children all chipped in and bought me a bonsai tree growing kit from Grow Buddha a couple of weeks ago.
I followed the instructions to grow the Chinese Black Pine trees in the providing pot. I put all the seeds in one pot which is what they did on the tutorials.
A couple of weeks have past and they've actually grow a bit, much to my surprise. I'm wondering if I should've planted them all together or not? I really have no idea what I'm doing here, closest I've come to growing any plants is cutting the grass with a lawn mower, I have absolutely zero experience.
But I'd love to try and make this a bit of a success.
I've attached a picture of how they are now, any advice will be extremely gratefully received.
Thanks in advance,
Paul
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70185
Give them another week or so until the little seed pod comes off. Pot them up separately and put them outside. Be careful of watering and wait a few years.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70188
Hey, thank you for your advice.
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70189
First of all congrats on germinating these pines, lots of people don't even succeed in that.
I do hope you realize that there will not grow bonsai out of these seedlings, but normal fullgrown trees?
I do hope you realize that there will not grow bonsai out of these seedlings, but normal fullgrown trees?
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Posted 3 years 6 months ago #70191
Hey,
Thank you for your response.
I done a little research before I went ahead and planted the seeds, as I found that germinating is not always successful, as you've said. Which is why I planted all the seeds into a single pot, I didn't really expect them all to grow.
I am aware that these are trees and that to make them bonsai trees there is skilled work to be done in a few years (which I was not aware of a few weeks ago).
This initial success with germinating has massively motivated me and I want to succeed with these now. I am quite excited at the prospect of this being a project that continues for many many years.
I will definitely be posting in this forum for advice before I do anything.
Thanks again for your reply.
Paul
Thank you for your response.
I done a little research before I went ahead and planted the seeds, as I found that germinating is not always successful, as you've said. Which is why I planted all the seeds into a single pot, I didn't really expect them all to grow.
I am aware that these are trees and that to make them bonsai trees there is skilled work to be done in a few years (which I was not aware of a few weeks ago).
This initial success with germinating has massively motivated me and I want to succeed with these now. I am quite excited at the prospect of this being a project that continues for many many years.
I will definitely be posting in this forum for advice before I do anything.
Thanks again for your reply.
Paul
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