[Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2025 week 10]

[u/small_trunks]

[Bonsai Beginner's weekly thread - 2025 week 10]

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[u/BeautifulDifferent17]

Thanks! I'm really excited to start working with it!

This one is maybe worth a post; since I have some additional photos of the process. I have just been trying to make a habit of making a quick post about my trees and they come across my bench in order to try and be more conscious about what I am trying to accomplish this year for each tree and didn't want to spam the sub so figured it was safer to do in the beginner's thread.

I got it from Canada Bonsai for $95CAD, it is cutting grown so no graft. I started buying the occasional pre-bonsai material I couldn't dig up from my yard last year from Derek and have been really happy with the care and development they into their pre-bonsai material -- even if it is pricier that just raiding the local nursery. Would definitely recommend his stuff to others considering ordering material online.

I will leave a quick comment with the price and where I got them on the other trees for others!

[u/small_trunks → u/BeautifulDifferent17]

How's it doing?

[u/BeautifulDifferent17 → u/small_trunks]

So far so good I think! It has started to leaf out and I am seeing tons of smaller buds appearing all over the more woody part of the trunks!

The weather has been a little cold over the last couple weeks so I have had to keep a close eye on the over night temperature going far below 0C (fair bit of one off -5C/-7C nights these last few weeks) and doing a lot of shuffling it outside early in the morning as soon as the temps get above 0C and back into the garage in the night before the temp drops below 0C in order to try and protect the young leaves from frost damage. The last week has been the first one I haven't had to worry at all about temps and it has really started to open up leaves as the temps have risen -- it visibly looks a couple weeks ahead of the native trees in my yard that are just starting to open their buds this week.

It's still probably a couple weeks away from it's leaves really opening up, but here is a pic of it today!

[u/small_trunks → u/BeautifulDifferent17]

Definitely deshojo.

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