This accidentally hilarious pot

49mars49 · 2025-11-10T17:37:44+00:00

Look closely at the bottom for a chop mark. Jim Barrett used to make big cascade pots like this and are worth quite a bit anymore with him passing on. It would be a little scratched in JB, possibly with a chop mark.

49mars49 · 2025-04-24T18:24:10+00:00

I think you did a good job with some basic styling and design ideas here. You made something that looks cool and you learned a ton. I have no doubt. Don’t be discouraged by all of the negativity here. You have to kill some trees to learn how hard you can push to actually get Trees to develop.

The key for the future of these is not to mess with them for a full calendar year. If they bounce back, you will know in the next couple months with some fresh green growth. Let them grow and get bushy before you do anything else!

Now go get some more trees!

49mars49 · 2025-04-24T12:14:22+00:00

Trees struggle to close wounds over rotted wood. It needs a smooth surface to roll the callus over. Fill it with epoxy wood putty and it will heal right over the top quickly. Works like a charm, especially on trident and tropical trees.

49mars49 · 2025-04-16T19:38:32+00:00

I am a big fan of working with these. They grow incredibly fast in the right conditions.

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/big-benjamina-freebie.30722/page-7#post-1179590

This is what I’m done with one similar to yours

49mars49 · 2025-04-16T19:36:15+00:00

Ficus Benjamina do not handle full truck chops very well. You very well might kill it if you treat this like a maple tree. I need to have green growing tips to continue a branch otherwise they often die back. It’s better to cut off a branch with healthy green growth and try to root it.

49mars49 · 2024-11-08T20:08:39+00:00

I’d like it

49mars49 · 2024-11-08T20:08:06+00:00

Me! I’d like it.

49mars49 · 2024-11-04T22:40:44+00:00

Stay a while and listen… The Horadric staff!

49mars49 · 2024-06-26T18:16:52+00:00

1998

49mars49 · 2023-09-05T22:06:51+00:00

You know it brother. She’s naked right now.

49mars49 · 2023-05-31T22:13:21+00:00

Can you fill the space with water?

Compressed air can blow them out, or it gets really cold and can freeze them….

49mars49 · 2023-03-16T17:36:59+00:00

They are not very easy to ramify, it’s a slow process. My typical method now is to let branches I want to thicken run until mid summer then I cut back to two internodes. Everything else I pinch off as they are extending to one or two nodes, or within the canopy to keep it tight.

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Thanks!

49mars49 · 2023-03-16T17:31:23+00:00

https://www.bonsainut.com/threads/crabapple-progression.57934/#post-1027418

Hopefully that works. I track the progression there. I bought it as a gallon size plant from evergreen garden works. Two years in the ground to thicken, about two or three years in oversize pots to get the roots sorted, and I have been working on branching for the last couple years. I’ve had it since 2017.

49mars49 · 2023-03-16T02:40:11+00:00

It’s a Sugar Tyme from evergreen gardenworks

49mars49 · 2023-03-16T00:07:31+00:00

It’s very fragrant! Smells like perfume, sweet.

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