We will make the Jin look nicer later. Lmk if you have any suggestions or questions. Not my tree but I can definitely raise a suggestion or do some small changes.

Just wanting to show this young juniper a bit. Looking to make it into a semi cascade. Now to let it grow and grow

Anyone with more experience than me feel free to chime in

I acquired this 13 year old Brazilian Rain Tree (my first bonzai) about a month ago and its been acclimating fine in front of large west facing window (New York). I knew that I would likely need to supplement with a grow light in the winter (and perhaps on cloudy days like today) so I purchased a SANSI 32W grow light.

But now I'm wondering if this might be too much supplemental light when combined with the west facing window.

I’m also wondering if a stronger grow light could completely replace the window during the winter? I was considering something like a Mars Hydro TS 1000. I hate how janky this lamp looks and it would be cool if I could create a nice looking setup using an LED panel and move the tree away from the window during the winter. Especially because the area around the glass is not well heated and I think temperatures could drop below 50F.

My hibiscus pre-bonsai popped out a huge flower today and I’m loving it.

I bought a 36” tropical hibiscus spring 2025. It bloomed all summer. I overwintered indoors but was loosing the battle to aphids. It survived the winter indoors and I moved it back out in May I started air layering off this bit. We had heavy rain which killed off the aphids but then the trunk rotted. I cut off the air layer prematurely and it’s been spending the summer recovering.

I noticed buds developing a couple weeks ago and this unit popped out overnight. The big flower on the small plant is so out of scale and I love it. I’m looking forward to getting it to branch out in the 2027 season.

Went to Green Witch Gardens yesterday and had a good time. It was smaller than the website lead me to belive but they had a lot of good trees. I forgot to take pictures of the trees but I did come home with a Japanese black pine and a very nice juniper. The goal for this year is to not kill them and make sure they make through the winter. Today, got a Koto Maru Japanese maple and a very small Dawn Redwood. Excited to see what i can do with these two in the future. Dawn Redwood was slippotted from a small plastic pot to the pot it's currently in. I feel that this will hopefully provide better insulation for the roots this winter.

Update on the free junipers: As you you can see in the photos, they are still alive. For now

Should make a nice shohin one day

Berkeley Horticultural Nursery

I tried to airlayer my Apple tree in the spring of this year. I cut a 1” strip around the circumference of the branch, applied rooting hormone powder, wrapped wet sphagnum moss in plastic wrap then in aluminum foil. I watered it once or twice per week through spring and summer, and took off the moss ball this week to find it formed some lumpy scar tissue (?) around where I cut with very little (if any) root formation.

Greetings everyone.

I wanted to introduce myself to the Reddit community.

My name is John. I did a 2.5 year, full time apprenticeship with Michael Hagedorn to learn his eye and learn how to reverse engineer great trees.

I have now been growing and developing trees for over 5 years at my bonsai nursery in Western Oregon. We grow a few dozen species, but mostly focus on 6-7.

My hope is to help develop the domestic supply of quality bonsai.

We sell seedlings as well as finished show material. I plan on posting material for sell at a discount to the Reddit community, but we also have a website with supplies, tools and trees. Our main shipping seasons are spring and fall, so we will be ramping up our listings over the next few weeks.

Feel free to PM me if you have questions.

John Eads

leftcoastbonsai.com

Instagram left.coast.bonsai

Acquired as a seedling, field grown for a decade and collected in 2019. Now in a mix of both pumice and zeolite + 10% akadama & pine bark. Very late in the season the candles are extending rapidly but yet to produce needles, all fingers are crossed.

Forest evolve a bit on its own.... at least it's still alive (my main goal)

I cleaned up that wiring after taking the photo and then promptly forgot to take another picture

Got a cute small bonsai for my birthday! Slowly learning what to do with it. Randomly it got scale and I felt so bad for it as I picked off all the damn bugs