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candystripper -> Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 4:17:29 PM)

This is really off-topic; but has A/anyone any experience with Bonsai trees? Are they hard?

candystripper



Aileen68 -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 4:20:30 PM)

I have the wonderful talent of being able to efficiently kill anything lush and green.
Plants shriek when I come near them at garden centers.
Sorry...no help for you here.



dincubus -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 4:22:17 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: candystripper

This is really off-topic; but has A/anyone any experience with Bonsai trees? Are they hard?

candystripper


I have killed three attempts at bonsai. they are definately not easy



fastlane -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 4:24:55 PM)

hell, I kill weeds!

Not intentionally, either!



ownedgirlie -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 5:10:30 PM)

Bonsais take more work than your basic plant. To water them, they have to be submerged in water for a given period of time- not too long, not too short. Someone gave one to a former boss once, with a card that said "May you live as long as this plant." (nice, huh?) He gave it to me and said "Here, you have a new job duty." i told him i hope he had his affairs in order. [;)]



krikket -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 5:12:23 PM)

Since i once killed an air fern i'm probably not the one to ask..lol.

However, if you can find some cheap ones (probably as difficult as finding a Master, but ya never know..lol) buy several, try them out in several parts of your house, different watering, etc., and do lots of research.

If nothing else, someone probably has some really nice silk ones for sale..lol..

good luck <g>

jimini



Gauge -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 5:35:39 PM)

quote:

This is really off-topic; but has A/anyone any experience with Bonsai trees? Are they hard?


I would imagine that they are hard... they stand up after all. A limp Bonsai would just flop around... wouldn't they? [8D]



mnottertail -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 6:04:17 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: krikket
However, if you can find some cheap ones (probably as difficult as finding a Master, but ya never know..lol)
jimini


In my opinion krikket, cheap masters are not that hard to come by.

Ron



Alumbrado -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 6:07:30 PM)

Not so much hard, just that they require specialized knowledge and patience...they aren't houseplants in the usual sense, and have to be treated like the little trees that they are, so an occasional splash from a watering can and some MiracleGrow won't do.
You have to be a forester, not a gardener.

And many of the ones sold in chain garden centers are whacked off shrubs, and pretty much doomed when you buy them.

Having said that, there is a lot of good information available on the 'net and in books, and many places have a local bonsai club, who can be very helpful, although sometimes overly focused on 'tradition' for my tastes.



silkNsteel -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 6:26:10 PM)

Hi Candy,

Yes, I have had several Bonsai over the years. They are very difficult and require a lot of attention but are worth the effort. Hmmm that reminds me of the description of a good Dom, they also require a lot of attention but seem to be worth it *winks*

But back to the off-topic, there are indoor and outdoor Bonsai, as well as flowering, non flowering, evergreen, decidious... well you get the idea. You need to do some research to find out the best choice for your situation. Wow, where have i heard that saying before....

Good luck if you decide to take one on... a tree that is! [8D]
silkNsteel



jadenth -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 7:22:47 PM)

my dad has managed to not kill the bonsai that my mom and i gave him quite a few years ago which he keeps at work. he isnt that good with house plants, but it is still green... probubly because its plastic.



NakedOnMyChain -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 7:23:10 PM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

I have the wonderful talent of being able to efficiently kill anything lush and green.
Plants shriek when I come near them at garden centers.
Sorry...no help for you here.


Ah, yet another who possesses the time honored power of the Black Thumb.

I've got it, too. I still have a dead palm tree and four pots of dead mums left hiding on my porch. I can't get up the courage to throw them away. After all, I did kill them. Ah well, I suppose I'll pitch them when I go through Round 14 later this month and buy new flowers and herbs... which will die a week after I buy them.



Aileen68 -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 7:25:34 PM)

quote:

Ah well, I suppose I'll pitch them when I go through Round 14 later this month and buy new flowers and herbs... which will die a week after I buy them.


*laughing*
Oh this is soooo me.

sidenote....how's the little bambino growing?



MHOO314 -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 7:31:36 PM)


quote:

ORIGINAL: fastlane

hell, I kill weeds!

Not intentionally, either!



stop making yellow snow, they'd live



champagnewishes -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 7:45:01 PM)

one word....bamboo

The ONLY plant that i have managed not to kill. Stuck it in water a year ago, set it on a shelf and promptly forgot about it. It's thriving!

Unlike the $75.00 bonsai tree i purchased and killed within three months, the bamboo shoot cost me $.99



Arpig -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/5/2006 7:47:50 PM)

Personally i am like Aileen....the touch of death to green things, but my mother has a real green thumb, and she has not been able to pull off a bonsai yet, so I can only assume they are very tough



NakedOnMyChain -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/6/2006 9:45:12 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Aileen68

sidenote....how's the little bambino growing?


Growing well, and kicking more. LOL. I find out the gender next week. Everyone is betting on a boy. Oooh, I feel the impending birth of a new poll in the stupidity section.

Anyways, so that I can't be accused of hijacking a thread, my brother had a Bonzai tree in his room for a while. The last I saw it was flourishing. Well, I went in his room the other day to say "hi" while I was out at my parents' house and I noticed a lovely little yellow tree. I looked at my brother and asked, "Is it supposed to be that color?" And he said, "No, but I think it Feng Shui's the room better. Don't you?" Apparently the Black Thumb is a genetic trait. I know my Mom has it. I know my sister and brothers have it. I definitely have it. I just don't understand where my Granny and Granddad came from.

(I actually have a funny little theory about people being worse with animals and plants the less they rely on the land. My Granddad was raised a farmer, despite his later degree in engineering, and he's awesome with plants. My Mom and my siblings were raised as "city folk" and we kill anything green we glance at. Of course there are obvious exceptions to the theory.)



kisshou -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/6/2006 1:41:41 PM)

Since so many others who are plant killers responded I will let you in on something I found out. There is a whole section of plants available for purchase from Home Depot that you can return for a refund/exhange if they die. Just go to the garden section an ask. As for me, yes I actually killed a plant that lived in water. I am horrible with houseplants but great with gardens. Go figure!



ownedgirlie -> RE: Bonsai Trees (3/6/2006 10:37:47 PM)

You all just reminded me i need to go water my plants...



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