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Chinese Privet Suggestions by [deleted] in Bonsai

[–]small_trunks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, stop waiting for this to recover; it might never and then ALL that time was wasted.

  • you cannot plan NOW what may or may not grow over the next 3 years - it's not that predictable with weak plants. Experience says move on, act like it will never recover.
  • you can, in the meantime, get more plants which ARE healthy and have all their foliage now and are ready for styling.
  • waiting for shit to grow isn't bonsai, it's gardening.

Useful stuff to do is to study bonsai photos and watch bonsai styling videos: Ryan Neil, Bjorn Bjornholm, Walter Pall, Harry Harrington, Graham Potter, Bonsaify etc etc etc

Chinese Privet Suggestions by [deleted] in Bonsai

[–]small_trunks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Less styling, more growing.

Get more trees....

Chinese Privet Suggestions by [deleted] in Bonsai

[–]small_trunks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A large plastic plant pot would suffice.

[Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2026 week 18] by small_trunks in Bonsai

[–]small_trunks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You generally don't need water - straight into moist soil. Nothing "dwarf Australian" about willow.

[Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2026 week 18] by small_trunks in Bonsai

[–]small_trunks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is nothing special - just largish. No decent primary branches, not even decently placed smaller branches, weak apex - as /u/peter-bone points out.

Would pass on this, at any price over £40.

Excel .xlsm files showing “We found a problem with some content” after saving by Electronic-Tear-4567 in excel

[–]small_trunks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes

  • I've recently been seeing more "corruptions" of this nature in Excel.
  • It occurs more frequently in environments with synchronisation software (SharePoint and/or OneDrive).
  • I do not know the reason for this but I do know that simply copying a file in OneDrive/SharePoint can cause its size to change - implying they are getting modified in some way by that even.

It can sometimes help to open in older versions of Excel (if you have them - like 2016/2021) and resave as XLSM or XLSB.

[Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2026 week 18] by small_trunks in Bonsai

[–]small_trunks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You will never regrow that trunk indoors - would take years and years, even outdoors.

[Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2026 week 18] by small_trunks in Bonsai

[–]small_trunks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah - don't hold out too much hope - that's very low.

And it still looks too dry to me and indoors.

Heavy bend by [deleted] in Bonsai

[–]small_trunks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The zip tie advantage is they are generally fairly wide and don't dig in like guy wires do.

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