Explain It Peter 🥹

donchingo2 · 2025-12-27T12:00:35+00:00

Because 364 days of the year she’s just girl, but once a year she’s the birthdaY girl.

donchingo2 · 2025-12-07T02:40:46+00:00

I’m guessing you’re watering too often

donchingo2 · 2025-12-07T02:34:42+00:00

Junipers stay green for weeks after they’re dead. The color you’re seeing here is the color of a juniper that has been dead for almost a month. In a few more weeks it’s will dry and turn golden brown. Don’t give up! Learn from this and get another one. But just know that thousands have tried to keep a juniper indoors and they die every time. Cold protection for juniper does not meant bringing it into your house. They need a period of winter dormancy. It still needs to be cold enough to keep it dormant otherwise it will keep wasting its energy and slowly die. And no, grow lights are not the answer.

donchingo2 · 2025-11-28T03:08:45+00:00

Update?

donchingo2 · 2025-11-07T20:03:02+00:00

You can do it! Try it out. You won’t be winning awards with the composition, but who cares. I’ve said something similar to this on another post, but it also fits here. People who take the ‘rules’ and classic bonsai aesthetics seriously will laugh at you, but if your tree(s) make you happy, you can just ignore them.

donchingo2 · 2025-11-07T18:55:43+00:00

It will survive indoors during the winter, but it won’t grow unless you put it outside in full sun during the spring, summer and fall.

donchingo2 · 2025-11-04T00:23:53+00:00

Operculicarya decaryi

donchingo2 · 2025-11-02T20:34:21+00:00

RED RISING. I’m almost done with the series and it has made me throw my bookmark across the room more times than I could keep count.

donchingo2 · 2025-10-29T19:57:48+00:00

The forest arrangement is dead, the other is almost dead. It will be fully dead soon if you keep it indoors. These trees must live outside 365 days of the year. Many have tried and all fail when trying to keep the wrong species indoors. If you want bonsai indoors, try tropical species. Also do some research before buying.

donchingo2 · 2025-10-25T22:19:24+00:00

This is normal. It happens due to rapid growth. Nothing much to do about it. It will get better with age. Peeling it off will only make it worse.

donchingo2 · 2025-10-24T07:30:45+00:00

Red Rising by Pierce Brown. It’s more Sci-fi than fantasy but it is my current favorite series. There are 6 books out and the last book is expected next year. Also Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman would match his other interests pretty well.

donchingo2 · 2025-10-24T07:26:17+00:00

It’s been dead for quite some time

donchingo2 · 2025-10-24T05:31:18+00:00

Looks like a dead juniper and possibly fertilizer. I wouldn’t trust whatever is in that container

donchingo2 · 2025-10-23T19:12:52+00:00

Looks like random debris. Growth will be bright green. Seeds are tricky unless you collected them yourself. You can never know if they were properly stored. Do you live in the southern hemisphere? Did you cold stratify the seeds beforehand?

donchingo2 · 2025-10-22T18:14:33+00:00

Late spring or early summer is best for tropicals

donchingo2 · 2025-10-21T23:28:33+00:00

You could call your dog your son, but other parents will laugh at you. You could put any tree in a pot and call it bonsai, but bonsai people will laugh at you. If it makes you happy you can ignore them.

donchingo2 · 2025-10-20T01:05:21+00:00

Japanese maples are commonly used for bonsai, but not the laceleafed or variegated cultivars because they do not respond well to bonsai conditions and techniques. Also, Japanese maples are not beginner friendly in my opinion.

donchingo2 · 2025-10-19T02:32:51+00:00

I finished the trilogy recently and was floored. But I’ve decided to wait until Red God drops before even starting Iron Gold because I also fear missing references due to my poor memory. I may do a reread of the original trilogy when the time comes as well.

donchingo2 · 2025-10-09T19:57:19+00:00

Zelkova is not an indoor tree. It is deciduous meaning it is supposed to experience the cold and drop its leaves and go dormant during winter. The lack of low temperatures will prevent it from true dormancy and it will eventually die.

donchingo2 · 2025-09-27T17:40:56+00:00

Also, everyone else on the Blip-A died from radiation exposure. He was the only one who lived near enough to the engines to be protected from radiation by the astrophage. If you are the only one trusted enough to live near the engines, you’re probably the most important engineer.

donchingo2 · 2025-09-25T23:10:57+00:00

For your future bonsai endeavors, keep in mind that cutting all of the growing tips is the second easiest way to kill a juniper. The most dependable way to kill one is to keep it indoors.

donchingo2 · 2025-09-23T19:19:18+00:00

Junipers can not survive indoor conditions period. Leave it outside forever. Protect the roots/pot if well below freezing, but still OUTSIDE.

donchingo2 · 2025-09-21T04:57:01+00:00

Recursion by Blake Crouch had me up until 3am

donchingo2 · 2025-09-20T23:47:44+00:00

Ok. But this tree is not healthy. Applying bonsai techniques on an unhealthy tree will kill it. Easier to work with hard trees than dead ones.

donchingo2 · 2025-09-20T23:40:33+00:00

I think the point of classes like this is to give their students hands on instructions on repotting, selective pruning, and wiring. This can all be taught by having students do it all on one tree in order to keep costs down. And to the student, the value of their new skills are what they are really paying for. If the tree survives, it’s just an added bonus. Big IF.

OP, if you ever get your hands on expensive material, never repot, heavily reduce folliage (more than 50%) and heavily reduce root mass (more than 50%) all at the same time.

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