Bonsai trees, who has one?

nope i misted it every so often and i bought proper bonsia feed but i never got around to using the feed cause they died befor your supposed to use it.I bough loads of books about them and read loads on internet about them and i just could not keep mine alive.After around 3 weeks of having it the leaves all fell off,and i was just left with a stick.I kept buying them thinking next time i will keep it longer but nope dead.
 
I read up on it briefly but there were so many things to leanr about and that was just the way you cut it?

Doesn anyone have a basic guide to start a begginer off including picking a right one as I read you should really buy them from a tree nursery?
 
ONESHOTKILL said:
nope i misted it every so often and i bought proper bonsia feed but i never got around to using the feed cause they died befor your supposed to use it.I bough loads of books about them and read loads on internet about them and i just could not keep mine alive.After around 3 weeks of having it the leaves all fell off,and i was just left with a stick.I kept buying them thinking next time i will keep it longer but nope dead.
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Sounds like what i did with my first tree, i bought a book, some clippers, read about it on the net, even bonsai feeds. The leaves didn't so much fall off, but it did developed some mould at the roots.

This time i didn't buy any books (lost that one and the clippers too), and feed it with miracle grow :D It's looking healthy so far.
 
I lost virtually my whole collection many years ago when a hard frost killed them. Amongst the ones that died was a fantastic silver birch I'd grown from a seed through a layer of old leaves to curve its stem "naturally". I gave them up after that.
 
phykell said:
I lost virtually my whole collection many years ago when a hard frost killed them. Amongst the ones that died was a fantastic silver birch I'd grown from a seed through a layer of old leaves to curve its stem "naturally". I gave them up after that.
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any interesting websites/books/words of wisdom for someone who is thinking of doing the same?

other than "Don't"
 
I had 2 or 3 as a kid. They all died. One I pruned to death and another I gave to someone to look after while I went on holiday, they didnt look after it :(
 
Raymond Lin said:
This is a better picture of what it looks like, very good for £5 i think.

Anyone know what tree it is? The lable didn't say, or if it did i thrown it away long ago. I wanna know so i can find out how often i need to prune the roots.
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Looks a lot like a Serissa Foetida to me (though my spelling is awful so might have misspelt that!). If I'm right the roots will be stinky if you cut them (hence foetida - like fetid).
 
i bought an 'outdoor' one about 6 weeks ago, watered daily, fed proper bonsai feed as required, it died within about 3 weeks :(
 
I really like them but Kate thinks they're gay. They give you an aura of oriental wisdom, sort of a Mr Miaggi thing going on.
 
Baggy said:
Looks a lot like a Serissa Foetida to me (though my spelling is awful so might have misspelt that!). If I'm right the roots will be stinky if you cut them (hence foetida - like fetid).
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Correct :D

I have two A Serissa and a Chineese Elm- Will post some pics tomorrow :)
 
Lopéz said:
I really like them but Kate thinks they're gay. They give you an aura of oriental wisdom, sort of a Mr Miaggi thing going on.
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so you SEEM deep and meeningfull but without the whole living as a hermit for 20 years etc
 
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