Orlando Bonsai » initial potting https://www.orlandobonsai.com The purpose of this site is to share and enjoy the art, history and horticulture of bonsai and to provide current bonsai news and information. Sun, 19 Sep 2021 06:47:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 New Podocarpus https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1250 https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1250#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:15:41 +0000 http://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=1250 I haven’t worked on a Podocarpus ever since I displayed one at Epcot 3 years ago.  Alothough I have been trying to find a replacement for that one in my collection I have had a hard time finding good material to work on.  Last year I found this one at Mike Rogers’ Nursery and had to have it.  Over tha past year though, I have lost a lot of upper branches and now it turns out that the entire top is dead.

Podocarpus Pre-Bonsai

Podocarpus Pre-Bonsai

But deadwood means a great carving project to address in the future of this tree.  I already have an idea of what I want to do.  I need to establish the branches and structure of this tree first.  First things first, let’s get that tree out of the nursery pot and into some bonsai soil to give this tree a kick start.

Upclose look at the trunk and nebari

Upclose look at the trunk and nebari

The base of this trunk is wonderful, lots of different fronts to the tree so plenty of options for development.

Prior to root pruning

Prior to root pruning

The roots of this tree weren’t great, but at least I didn’t need to prune much off to get it into this bonsai pot.  The soil mix was also pretty poor for drainage, too much sand.  It will really flourish in my bonsai mix

Podocarpus initial potting

Podocarpus initial potting

Well it doesn’t look much of a Bonsai at this point, but this years goals are simple.  Get the tree to develop better roots, and put out new branches.  I may get lucky and be able to chose a few branches, but the styling won’t occur until late this year or next year.  Just need to keep it alive and happy.


]]> https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?feed=rss2&p=1250 2 I couldn’t wait! https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=147 https://www.orlandobonsai.com/?p=147#comments Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:50:56 +0000 http://orlandobonsai.com/blog/?p=133

I couldn’t wait any longer. I had to finally make a bonsai of this tree. I’m am glad I did. It has grown so much in only 3 years. This was the size of a pencil when I got it and now it has great movement and character. The tree we trimmed back pretty hard to get it into this shape, but it won’t take long for it to fill back in. March 2006


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