每日吃瓜

Thank you. It's a relief to know I've done something right. I'm six feet tall. If I could stand, each giant pot probably would almost touch my knees. But I'll ask my personal care assistant to center each tree in its pot to give the roots more room to "roam."

Someone from Fast-Growing-Trees.com says the Maple should take about a month to recover from transport shock. She didn't use that phrase. She said the tree had something like an anxiety attack that left the trunk green and killed most of the leaves. That worried me because they died before I opened the tree's box.

A problem with my trained Juniper frightens me, too. Though the tree looks gorgeous, some foliage is browning. But someone at Fast-Growing-Trees.com warned me not to prune the brownish parts away. Do they mean the tree is dehydrated? Will the brownness spread? Whatever it'll do, it frightens me.

Please forgive me for being too personal when I tell everyone here that I grieved for two months after I mistakenly killed my favorite Venus flytrap. Sadly, since I empathize too much with helpless creatures, I may need to quit my new hobby and give the Juniper to an expert.?If my plants can't thrive here, they need new homes.

Trapfrog, the word?"expert" may be accurate because I usually watch videos by?bonsai nursery employees. Besides, my philosophy degree and teaching computer science make me detail-oriented, especially about word meanings and grammar. I strive to word sentences precisely. But anyone should feel free to point out any mistake I make. I joined the forum because my trees suggest I've already goofed.

Hello Bill!

Everytime I have an available spot on the yard, I put a tree on the ground for thickening, it saves me time.
However it requires more effort, specially when you have to lift it for rootwork or bring it back to pots.

I noticed that working on a plant on the ground might be challenging for you, but if you choose to, you could do smaller trees, so you won't have to struggle with it when you need to remove it from the ground, so smaller trees would help you on that aspect...
Also, it would help you a lot if you prepare the roots before taking it to the ground, because?you'll want your roots to thicken well positioned, and?it will grow very vigorous on the ground, so it's quicker for roots to cross, or mess up, and if so, you'll have to correct that later.

If you can, you really should?try both aproaches, I develop my trees in?both, ground and big pots. There are some species that thickens quite well in pots.

Btw, I can't see your trees. =]

Hi, Albas,

Thanks for the good tips. Sadly, I doubt I can climb?into my wheelchair after crawling on the ground. Maybe I should buy an indoor plant stand with a built-in grow light for indoor bonsai. I might put a table on my wheelchair ramp's landing where I can reach outdoor bonsai. I wouldn't dare to lift Juniper in my wheelchair because I might drop it or fall.

We'll see whether I can post a photo of each tree, even the Maple, the least photogenic family member.??Knowing the anxiety struck during the tree's trip to my home is good. I don't know what to do if the frightened little guy begs FedEx to rescue and take him home to the nursery.

BillMcEnaney wrote: We'll see whether I can post a photo of each tree

That would be nice.

And you can do it with pots, no problem, you gradually put them into bigger pots to develop (as big as possible for you of course), then when you start finishing you reduce somehow gradually the pot, depending on the species of course.

Key for you will be working on small trees, Mame and Shohin? you can make them using less space, and you can easily handle it.

About?indoor... That's complicated just a few species will tolerate that, I can't help you much with that, all my trees ar outside.
Maybe an accessible part of the yard where you can have a bench?


Thanks for the talking cactus btw... lol

BillMcEnaney wrote: Trapfrog...........?Besides, my philosophy degree and teaching computer science make me detail-oriented.

So what is my user name

The question was to plant or not to plant. You had the answer yourself all the time and it had nothing to do with bonsai. You cannot plant in the ground due to personal restrictions. It is what it is. The other option mentioned was to use the biggest possible pot. That is still the best way for you. I suggest you talk to the healthcare and physiotherapy people around you to get support on how big the biggest possible pot is, how you can improve your abilities to handle them and what aids there are to help you.

The option to put the trees in shallow pots for slower development is also possible.

We are here for the love of trees. Most of us do not have much knowledge or experience with dissabilities. But I think all of us understand that bonsai may be a perfect hobby for some dissabled people. In the end one can grow trees as small as a pinkie. Just as long as there are steady hands and good eyes bonsai is an excellent hobby.

I'm detail-oriented, but my spastic hand muscles make me a lousy typist, Tropfrog. Others follow if I move a finger from the home row to the one above it. That forces me to hunt and pack. Now that I've excused my mistake, I should admit only glancing at your screen name.

每日吃瓜 is an excellent hobby for someone like me, though I may need to adapt.?I could take my Juniper off a table, hold it in my lap, and let someone push my wheelchair. I can't move the tree from the ground to it. Luckily, someone could plant and uproot the leafy trees?at potting time.

Again, I care most about what's best for my trees, so if they need a more skillful?caregiver, I'll find one. After my friend Jennifer adopted my Venus flytraps, they multiplied and thrived. They're still doing that because she's a fine garner with an excellent home for them. I can become a competent bonsai grower. Before I buy another tree, I should learn how to care for my current ones.

You're right. I must transplant small trees into bigger pots until they're ready to dwarf. Let's hope that strategy will prevent the problem Mr. Hanraham described in his YouTube video about the older tree with a thin trunk. Your method will work because he warned viewers to let trees mature before bonsai-potting them.?

The talking cactus clip came from a longer video about whether plants can recognize people and things. In it, someone attached a plant to a lie detector before someone slashed another one with a machete. When the slasher returned to the scene of the Crome, another machine supposedly showed that the "victim" recognized him. Another plant seemed to react when a machine dropped tiny animals into boiling water.

I?wish the assaulted plant were a stinging nettle because it could get sweet revenge.?