Originally posted on Michael Hagedorn:
I’ve received several emails about how to handle juvenile foliage on junipers, and felt like this was one of those discussions that could be useful to a larger group of people. Juvenile growth in junipers is when the shoots display needle-like growth on a typically scale growth variety (a few of those are listed below). This is Rocky Mountain juniper, a… Continue reading Juvenile growth on junipers…Cut? Leave alone?

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Originally posted on bonsaichology:
In 2009 I started with a baobab experiment.  All my baobabs I have started from seed and I did not want to wait so long to have thick trunks. (I was no youngster in 2009 either).  I had an idea to trunk split (much like figs) some of them.  At that stage I was communicating with Harry Harrington (UK) and he… Continue reading Trunksplitting, scoring and scratching to thicken bonsai cuttings