bonsai

Hi there people!!!!! My name is Miguel and I am here to learn it all!!!!. I am a complete beginner to carnivorous plants but I am there for the long haul on learning this trade, in my opinion (which is actually not an opinion but an absolute truth lol) this is 1 of the most exiting and EXOTIC...

I picked up a Pinus mugo with an interestingly shaped trunk for use as the start of a bonsai but I'd like to reduce the size of the needles and increase the number of branches before I start to do what I wanna do with it. Have any of you made pine needles smaller, is that possible? Should I be...

I finally broke down and ordered a red Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum) off Ebay to reduce to bonsai starts. The only local nurseries which have them want $100-$200 for the same size 4 ft tree I ordered for $20 (hell ova markup!). I realize it will be all long and twiggy and I won't get to bonsai...

A guy that works at Linder's garden center who I met on a cacti forum emailed me that a new shipment of exotic cacti came in Friday so here's what all I got on Saturday, talk about greedy! :D Two new Adromischus for my ever growing collection: Adromischus clavifolius (this is not what this...

I have a young tree I am trying to turn into a bonsai. How long should I wait until I wake it up? i am think in early March or late February.

So, an odd question here. There was a thread about the biggest traps not too terribly long ago (the answer of which seems to be a B52 or B52-hybrid)... but are there any VFT cultivars that have really SMALL traps? I had a weird dream a while back of a Carnivorous Plant Bonsai or Saikei setup...

FINALLY! Here you go Tracey, some of my split rocks in a clay bonsai pot... enjoy! :-O

I posted this when I was 15 and I wish I could change the title now... I'm focusing on houseplants these days but still very into carnivores and hoping to restart my collection now Non-CP 3 Epipremnum aureum "Golden" 1 Epipremnum aureum "Neon" 1 Polka dot plant 1 Lipstick plant 1 Oxalis 1...

Given that I live in an apartment as large as someone's chicken coop (yeh, that was what I was told :-)) ), many of the plants at my balcony ain't as large as they should be. Despite that, many of them have got good leaf : pitcher ratio. Most of the time, the pitcher is more than half the length...

i am canadian, 27 years of age and have just recently taken a curiosity to cp`s. my girlfriend loves plants and we are well over 60 plants ( 02-11-08 we are up to 80 now!!!) in a 4 1/2 appartment, cp`s included. it started with a friend of ours who had the idea of putting vft`s in an aquarium to...

So i bought this little tree (its a bonsai) from a garden place about a month or so ago...and I was messing with the wiring on the branches and noticed some of the leaves have these brown crusty scales on some of the leaves anda few of the smaller branches. So I filled my sink with warm water...

Yes. Clay. I love this stuff. I have noticed that in pots where I use 50% arcillite, 25% LFS, and 25% bark & charcoal as the medium, with a 1/4th inch top dressing of Sphagnum, I can have near-instantaneous drainage , however, it has been my experience that it does not dry out any faster than...

After several years away, I'm back. That's right I used to be on here many years back, but due to a divorce several years ago, I lost all of my carnivores and a great deal of my bonsai collection to the unyielding temper of our sun. But a recent trip to California Carnivores gave me the "bug"...

Hey everyone my name is Zach and I am a freshman at Cal Poly Pomona in Southern California. I am studying Plant Science, and I recently bought some CP's, and now I'm hooked!! I created two different bogs...a large one and a small one, and I have them in different places because the plants in...

I'm ordering Cofea arabica (Coffee plant), Ficus retusa (Taiwan ficus), Mimosa pudica (Sensitive plant), and Ficus benjamina (Weeping ficus) seeds. I have never raised a plant from a seed so I was wondering how I should go about growing these plants. I guess I need to know how deep the hole...

I was just reading the thread about Frysters cool new grow rack: http://www.terraforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=108367 and it got me to thinking about something that has been in the back of my mind for many years.. A co-worker of mine is a houseplant fanatic..bonsai, orchids, rare troical...

I have found that if you treat the VFT like a bonsai and grow it in a bonsai pot, it will stay small. If you release it into a big pot... yea he goes kinda crazy for you. This is progress from March - Oct this year. It's roughly the same time period as my VFT leaf pulling experiment. So if I...

I recently got a bonsai tree, and it is my first one. It's kind of strange, because the gravel is glued down so it is kind of hard to tell if the soil is wet enough or not. I don't think it needs dormancy, because the care sheet it came with didn't say anything about dormancy. Does anyone know...

I just got on here today. So far I don't see too many people on here but it could also be cause it's a Friday. Feel free to send me a message! I have around twenty or so plants and I'm totally crazy about them. I can't wait for February when they've had a good sleep and are about to wake up so...

<img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i30/winthorpe1/DSCF3696.jpg"/> <img src="http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i30/winthorpe1/DSCF3695.jpg"/> Thought I would post a couple (bad) pictures of my bonsai.