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Bonsai Myth Busters
- Pup
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Re: Bonsai Myth Busters
I have Tillandsia usneoides growing in the air suspended by a bent hook does that count.
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Chandlers Kitty litter turns to mush

It's too bad your in such a hurry cause the stories I could tell you, Bushels and baskets of stories, hole crates full of stories. But if you can spare a moment I will tell you one story.
- Luke308
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Re: Bonsai Myth Busters
Pup, can you please clarify if you mean the myth is you cant make a good bonsai from a Pinus pinea, or were you saying you can?Pup wrote:Australian plants do not make good Bonsai. Cant collect them![]()
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Neither do Pinus pinea.
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Craig
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Pup's stone pine
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- Pup
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Re: Bonsai Myth Busters
Young Luke I was told many years ago they do not make good Bonsai I have two. One was on display at the May convention in Fremantle this year.Luke308 wrote:Pup, can you please clarify if you mean the myth is you cant make a good bonsai from a Pinus pinea, or were you saying you can?Pup wrote:Australian plants do not make good Bonsai. Cant collect them![]()
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Neither do Pinus pinea.
Thanks
Which has since been published in the BCI Bonsai and stone appreciation magazine. So I am saying yes you can they have been posted here.
IN THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE ATTAINED, ACHIEVEMENT IS WITHIN SIGHT
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- Luke308
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Re: Bonsai Myth Busters
Thanks, how long have you had yours for? do you treat them like other pines, or is there anything special I should know?
PS yours looks looks fantastic
PS yours looks looks fantastic
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Re: Bonsai Myth Busters
I recently collected a radiata pine. It was pulled from the ground by hand (was not expecting too collect on this ride) Threw it in my back pack and rode for another two hours on a warm day. Completely bare rooted and slightly damaged - 8 weeks later it still survives and hasn't lost a needle.Leigh Taafe wrote:A friend of mine bare roots and washes Japanese Black Pines with a hose as he digs them from his growing field - I guess this busts the myth of keeping some of the old soil!
Steve W
If it were not for my trees, maybe I could see the forest.

