What Kind of plant should I start with?
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I watched a video of Oscar showing how to start 名媛直播 trees. I am all into it now. What would be a good plant for me to buy to start trying to learn to make a 名媛直播 tree?
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82484
Please share more information. What is the climate in your area? What is the planned location for it like, amount of sun, sheltered or non sheltered? Do you want to work with wires or clip and grow? How much time are you ready to spend on it yearly but also how many years until finished. But most important, what species do you like yourself?
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82487I watched a video of Oscar showing how to start 名媛直播 trees. I am all into it now. What would be a good plant for me to buy to start trying to learn to make a 名媛直播 tree?
I good source of trees would be a yard near you. Those are trees that grow in your climate so you don't have to worry about climate.
We have regular meetings of the local club. Some members bring seedlings to give away to prospective members. The price is right.
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82489
Thank you both for your good advice. I have a lot to think about. I read that a juniper was a good tree to start with but then I read later that it has to be outside and I wanted a plant inside, so I'm going to keep looking at your website and maybe take some classes! Thank you so much!
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82490
Well, upon further reading, it appears that I'm going to need to do an outdoor 名媛直播. That's fine, and I need to get outdoors more anyway! haha, thank you again.
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82491
All trees belong outside, there is no plant that has ever naturally grown in a house. Juniper is a good species to start, but you cannot under any circumstances have it inside. Buy a book join a club, good way of getting more plants.
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82492
Great advice!
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82493
Yes, juniper is a good alternative if you live in a cold temperate regions. If you live in mediteranean or tropical region it is an awful recomendation. So what is the climate like where you are?
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82494
I'm quite new to bonsai and I've been having a lot of luck with Jade (crassula ovata) and dwarf Jade (portulacaria afra). I'm in a temperate climate, so they become indoor plants in the winter and go out on my balcony in warmer weather. These are technically succulents more than they are a traditional bonsai species but I find there are a lot of resources out there for styling and growing these to look nice. While I am trying many other species I find these to be very forgiving. Maybe a good consideration?
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Posted 10 months 3 weeks ago #82495
In the very ecsense of bonsai. Trees in pots. Succulent plants cannot be considered bonsai. If it is not a tree, it cannot be a bonsai.
But I am just as facinated as you in growing succulents to look like bonsai. It is also in my opinion the only way to grow anything indoors that will look like an old miniature tree.
However, the nature of jade plants do experience cold and dry winters. If the plant is kept in livingroom conditions in winter it will never flower.
So I keep young jade plants outdoors in summer and indoor in winter for maximum growth. Mature specimens I keep outdoors in summer but in frost free overwintering room in winter. A mature jade plant grown in a shallow pot to look like a bonsai flowering in early summer is a vision comparable to a great mature azalea in my opinion.
Not a bonsai in the true meaning, but definetely worth growing even for the purist bonsai master. Just too bad most of them do not consider them worth the effort. Because after all they are not bonsai.
But I am just as facinated as you in growing succulents to look like bonsai. It is also in my opinion the only way to grow anything indoors that will look like an old miniature tree.
However, the nature of jade plants do experience cold and dry winters. If the plant is kept in livingroom conditions in winter it will never flower.
So I keep young jade plants outdoors in summer and indoor in winter for maximum growth. Mature specimens I keep outdoors in summer but in frost free overwintering room in winter. A mature jade plant grown in a shallow pot to look like a bonsai flowering in early summer is a vision comparable to a great mature azalea in my opinion.
Not a bonsai in the true meaning, but definetely worth growing even for the purist bonsai master. Just too bad most of them do not consider them worth the effort. Because after all they are not bonsai.
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