Working on My 12 Dollar Juniper, Part 2, The Bonsai Zone, March 2023 

That is absolutely the perfect pot for that tree. My address to follow 😂

@@mattbrennan647 If you can prove to me you have a tree that is worthy I will send you one too!

Nice work, Jay! 😁

@@BlueJayBonsai . I knew you’d find a way to squirm out of that 😂 Maybe in 10 years

Hello Jay ! 😀 What a beautiful pot you got Nigel there!

He definitely recreated the Lego bonsai in real life 😁

100%! I thought the same. 😅

Thanks, I really like it too!!!

those blue glass beads are pretty cool! 😉

Thanks so much, it will be interesting to see how it grows this year!

The tree is doing really well and growing nicely!!

Thanks Derrick, maybe the trees in training section!

You're right. Botanists like Ryan Neil talk about energy storage a lot. Of course trees get their energy from the sun, but my understanding is that wherever the majority of the energy is stored (in winter) should be pruned as little and infrequently as possible. Pines store lots of energy in the roots, and don't like being root-pruned... which I've learned from sad experience. Pruning is like surgery: it sets all trees back, but in most conifers, it seriously weakens them to heavily top-prune and root-prune in the same year--heavily being more than 20-30%. Imagine having surgery on two major organs in one year! Root-pruning essentially replicates a landslide; top-pruning is like a hurricane. No tree enjoys it, but some species can handle it better. You can butcher trident maples back to a stump, but frequent heavy pruning will make any tree suffer, weaken, rot, die back, get bugs and diseases, or at best remain in a juvenile state.

Interesting! Thanks so much!!!

Want a t-shirt that’s says this

@@amayanut great idea

Yes, so many hidden treasures out there!!!

Stolen from a D&D site: "Trees destined to evolve into treants meditate through many long cycles of seasons. They can live for decades or even centuries before realizing their potential. Those lucky enough to awaken do so only under unique circumstances and in areas saturated with natural magic. Other treants and powerful druids can feel the stirring potential of these trees and will protect them in secret groves as they grow close to their moment of awakening. During this long process, face-like features grow into a tree's bark, their lower trunk divides into legs, and their longest branches begin to bend down to serve as their arms. When the time comes, the fully-formed treant pulls free from the earth and joins its kin in protecting its woodland home."

Bare rooting doesn't hurt the tree, the Blade Runner Juniper died because it was left outside for the winter and it got way too cold for it.

​@@TheBonsaiZone I hope the tree will make it, usually junipers don't like bare rooting. The times i did that they died. So i don't bare root them anymore.

It is doing really well, it's potted up in a nice bonsai pot now!!

Yes, alive and kick'n

​@TheBonsaiZone that's awesome! It looks great in the videos.

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