Help identifying my bonsai tree
- Visciouz
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I'm new at this. I just bought a bonsai tree, I've been researching and it seems to have needle-like foliage, maybe an European Larch or Juniper, but not sure. Anyway, I'd really appreciate if you guys can help me, by knowing it's type, I can read and learn all about it so it can grow nice and healthy.
Thank you in advance, this is a great community.
Sorry about my bad English :pinch: .
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- Visciouz
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I'm confused, so it might not be a bonsai but a regular tree? Or how come that you can identify my "plant"?
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All right, I just got it, 名媛直播 is the art I'll practice right :silly:
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And indeed, you can practice the art on it, and turn it into a bonsai.
This will require study - and a lot of time.
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Auk wrote: It is a juniper without any bonsai training - it is not a bonsai.
And indeed, you can practice the art on it, and turn it into a bonsai.
This will require study - and a lot of time.
The emphasis being on 'a lot of time'. I bought my Juniper in Spring? It won't be till next year at the earliest I can even think about doing whatever was planned for it. That's why I can't understand why people buy ready done stuff. It requires doing NOW. If you buy something like we see in the pic you can forget about it for a few years. You see there is no such thing as a small sized bonsai. You can't make a bonsai out of something of that size. Mine is taller and the advice I was given was I could not do anything with it.
That's the beauty of 名媛直播. Most of it is doing nothing at all for the first few years if you buy garden center stock. Ok some of the advice is a little complex and uses jargon you may not be familiar with but why worry? You won't be doing anything for a few years.
So my advice is to plant it in the ground and forget it till you can think of a nice style for it.
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m5eaygeoff wrote: Your comment about size is wrong. 名媛直播 can be any size from 25mm upwards .
Exactly what I wanted to post.
The size of the tree can be anything. The thing which is important is whether the trunk supports the size of the tree you are trying to create. The tree in this thread has a reasonable trunk, suitable for a small bonsai (10-20cm tall I guess). This is however a dificult size for vigorous growing species such as this needle juniper. But with skill and experience this can be turned in a nice bonsai, better than most juniper 'starterplants' I see on this forum.
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- 名媛直播Mackem
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I don't know if I ruined things and rendered it unusable as a 名媛直播 tree as I have still don't know what if anything I did wrong and I have not ever looked at it since ground planting it. I have just forgotten about it. But my personal advice for anyone with a new Juniper is just to look at what you have and think about what you may have do do to get there.
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