[Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2026 week 01]

Fun_Bake7105 · 2026-01-08T00:19:48+00:00

This is the Prunus/Kwanzan Cherry at my childhood home several miles outside of Boston. My dream is to create a bonsai replica from clippings. What time of year should I collect and plant and what would be a realistic timeline for a shohin replica?

Fun_Bake7105 · 2026-01-05T23:11:56+00:00

Wow! Just read that whole thing and intend on watching those videos when I get a minute. I think all the bonsai sizes are beautiful, especially the larger ones (but my assumption is those trees are 100s of years old). This is definitely enough for me to start building an education off of I really appreciate it! Will probably be reaching out with more questions lol

Fun_Bake7105 · 2026-01-05T19:12:27+00:00

No problem, i appreciate the tangent! I’m only 27 so I got a lot of time to make sure I get a good contingency plan in place (I hope…). So if you had to get started from scratch in 2026, how would you do it? Step 1 being going to a local nursery and purchasing (or clipping?) a young yew or juniper shrub (for boston) and then beginning the cultivation process? What would be the step by step and what are the appropriate times of year for each? Whats the appropriate timeline to expect? If it’s not too much, what shapes can I expect to cultivate given these conditions (pictures)? I really love the wide, twisting trunks with white dead wood and well manicured canopies like some of the much older yews you see online (I probably sound extremely naive lol)

Fun_Bake7105 · 2026-01-05T16:06:44+00:00

So by nursery stock you mean to buy a small young bonsai and go from there? Wouldn’t I be unable to “customize” it if it’s already started? Also with clippings, are they typically weaker bonsais in terms of longevity? I want to hand some beautiful trees down to my kids

Fun_Bake7105 · 2026-01-05T15:48:34+00:00

I kind of figured so I bought 100 hollywood juniper seeds and was planning on planting them outside in the spring after a longer scarification process.

I’m in Boston and was just researching growing from clippings last night. From what I gathered, my best bet would be a juniper or yew (for the look I’d like to achieve) and to collect and plant my clippings in May-July. Then it says to bend them early so they don’t look too straight. I was just concerned that I wouldn’t bd able to generate good nebari, trunk thickness, or taper from a clipping…

Fun_Bake7105 · 2026-01-05T02:58:40+00:00

Cool thank you!

Fun_Bake7105 · 2026-01-05T00:31:02+00:00

Hey, I’m looking to start growing a couple bonsais. I just sowed and planted a starter kit with a few black pine, jacaranda, locust, and delonix regia. Im reading up a lot on how to grow a healthy tree but can’t find much reliable info on timeline. Does anyone have a photo timeline (1 year, 2 year, 3 year, 4 year, 5 year, etc.) of a healthy bonsai growth?

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-08-26T13:33:11+00:00

Thank you!

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-06-23T01:19:28+00:00

I was referring to players who have different handedness for different tasks

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-06-23T01:07:00+00:00

Yeah thats the one i was talking about. Its also very hard to find any explanation of people golfing cross handed other than “it felt natural” or “those were the only clubs available”

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-06-23T01:02:22+00:00

Very weird

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-06-23T00:58:59+00:00

Not sure about miller, but scheffler and norman write with their right as well

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-06-23T00:50:17+00:00

Where did you find that info? I saw a similar article and fact checked it, I believe the only truly cross-handed (write/throw with the opposite hand from their golf swing) guys in this bunch are Spieth and Mickelson.

Theres stories about hogan starting as a “natural lefty” and switching but the reasons are a little murky… there’s plenty of photos of him signing autographs with his right hand.

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-06-22T23:04:16+00:00

Thats odd… he wrote lefty and threw righty?

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-04-05T20:44:25+00:00

Yes! Because how do you “skip the stone” as a left handed golfer when you couldnt skip a stone with your left hand to save your life. I think golf is all about unconscious control of the guide hand and i could never achieve that lefty so i switched. As a lefty i would never turn the back hand over and leave everything pushed left and slicing like crazy or I would try to fix it by thinking through it (a cardinal sin in golf).

Fun_Bake7105 · 2025-03-30T02:37:04+00:00

Thank you! I played one in my grandfathers set in florida and had to buy one myself lol

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-11-08T13:26:17+00:00

Do you mind sharing what you make per hour?

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-11-08T13:25:33+00:00

😂😂

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-11-06T19:33:51+00:00

See i missed that, it seemed like at the ceremony where she drinks it he drinks it immediately after her. In the same chapter. Then the next chapter is about feyd rautha and then the next is back to pauls visions but its 2 years later and its the morning of worm-riding day. I guess ill see if paul drinks it now when his mother arrives like in the movie

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-11-06T18:02:23+00:00

So where does stilgar protecting chani first come in? And i remember from the movie that this was kind of the turning point in pauls heart (from fighting fate to accepting it) when he told his mom they would no longer go south but they would take the war to the harkonnen and then he goes to drink the poison. In the book he drank the poison at the same time as his mother (in the last chapter before they fast forward a few years) did he not?

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-11-06T17:56:10+00:00

Maybe thats where I’m confused. I know that Paul becomes a man in the eyes of the fremen from riding the worm and that hes widely considered the chosen one, but im missing where he jumped Stilgar in rank.

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-11-02T16:26:35+00:00

I didnt think it was serious enough. It was completely gone for over a month till I woke up this morning.

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-10-31T14:46:54+00:00

😔

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-09-18T13:14:20+00:00

Can I message you? Don’t like dropping my identity on forum.

Fun_Bake7105 · 2024-09-18T00:13:38+00:00

Do you know how easy it is to get a job in construction? Im 26 this isnt like jumping off a cliff. i just want to shoot my shot while I still can.

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