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It seems that in a very short time I have accunulated a collection of shohin trees. Most are works in progress but a few are quite presentable.

Nice work Gerard

I like the first Black Pine.

Olives are not usually my favourite of species, but this one, with it's rough/corky bark, nice movement and great proportional taper is a winner! How old is it? (or is it a layer off a much older tree?) and what type of Olive, is it a rough bark variant or just common?

Thanks for sharing

Cheers,
Ryan

Love the first and last black pine... They appear very healthy, what is the fertiliser regime you have for them?

cre8ivbonsai wrote:Nice work Gerard

I like the first Black Pine.

Olives are not usually my favourite of species, but this one, with it's rough/corky bark, nice movement and great proportional taper is a winner! How old is it? (or is it a layer off a much older tree?) and what type of Olive, is it a rough bark variant or just common?

Thanks for sharing

Cheers,
Ryan

This's olive came from an elderly Italian man who grew it as a pot plant for many years. It was his practice to lift, cut the bottom half off the rootball and replace.

matlea wrote:Love the first and last black pine... They appear very healthy, what is the fertiliser regime you have for them?

I fertilize with osmacote, power feed every few weeks and dynamic lifter occasionally for most trees. However azaleas and shohins never get dynamic lifter. Tha mini pines do not get much food during the growing season, I feel that the food and water should be held back to prevent aggressive growth

Thanks for the great posting Gerard

I love the elm as well but it love to have any on my shelf!

stew

People keep telling me to make shohin bonsai i like that olive cool tree there you have a nice collection great stuff

Olivecrazy wrote:People keep telling me to make shohin bonsai

Me being one of them, you'll need scaffolding for most of your bonsai mate

Beautiful trees, thanks for sharing, gotta love Shohin

Hi Gerard ,
What a great collection , got to love those little ones....
Cheers John.

Hi Gerard,
You have some really nice trees in that lot.
In my experience it is not hard to accumulate shohin but it is much more difficult to keep them alive and looking good. Both culture and trimming need to be spot on to maintain these little beauties.

Very nice. Wonder how you keep yours so healthy with so little soil.
I love the "pencil" pine

Very nice work Gerard.
cheers Anthony

I'm loving them all! What sort of time do you cut the candles on your jbp's to keep the growth from getting too fat? Or is that more controlled by reducing the water and fert? Cam

Wow nice training regime, "grow as a bonsai, or get turned into a pencil".
Seriously though fantastic little trees!

Is the first Black Pine Austrian? The needles look a bit curly.

Taz Cam wrote:I'm loving them all! What sort of time do you cut the candles on your jbp's to keep the growth from getting too fat? Or is that more controlled by reducing the water and fert? Cam

I decandle small pines a couple of weeks later than the rest that makes it late December. I remove a lot of needles in April and in summer I keep them on top of capillary matting to maintain some humidity.
Holing back on water and fertilizer is natural when there is not much soil so I dont need to think about it much at all.

Scott Roxburgh wrote:Is the first Black Pine Austrian? The needles look a bit curly.

Sorry Scott I have lots of black pines and I am not great at telling the difference, I would love to get educated in the differences.