Interested in entering the world of bonsai

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Also know of a good place to buy small bald cypress around New Orleans?

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I did some research a number of years ago. I think you replant trees with desirable touch base sizes and cut the truck back and shape it over time to look like a full sized tree. This is the time of year to locate and dig up trees

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Anyone have experience or tips in creating bonsai with Bald Cypress or spruce pine? Or Bonsai info in general?

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You won't be shite without the right tools..

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I 'did' Bonsai when I lived in Houston. I learned a lot about how plants want to grow and how to make them grow the way I wanted them to, two very different things.

Summers, and to a lesser extent spring and fall were a bitch, because if it got too hot, too dry, or too anything else, the reduced root systems couldn't take the stress.

Back then there weren't watering controls that could drip irrigate four times a day for a certain number of minutes and adjust those for changes in humidty (humistats were darned expensive then), or put up an awning when a gully washer thunderstorm would pop up and wash all the soil/rock mix away from the roots.

I’ve got a fukien tea that I almost killed because I forgot to water in the summer. What I do now is leave about 1/2 - 1 inch of water in a container that the ceramic pot sits in to absorb the water so I don’t have to constantly water. Not sure if that’s the right way to do it, but the tree has been doing fine.

3 year thread bump, nice