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Walked around with my grandmother today and found a few seedlings in one of her flowerbeds. They're too small to tell yet, but I'm hoping they're from the maple sapling she planted in the corner of the yard when I was a little kid. I've had a long love-hate relationship with that tree, and it'd be nice to force it to submit to my will and be shorter than me. But knowing my luck they're probably just more sweet-gums.  We took cutting of the original tree, but I don't have a whole lot of hope for them to take.  How well do bonsai travel? I move between 7a and 7b during the year (I go to school four hours south of home) and would prefer to be able to bring my tree(s) with me rather than risk a roommate or neighbor killing them. Any special precautions I should take?
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May 24, 2012 00:23
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Thanks. I'll definitely keep an eye out for seeds on the maple if those saplings turn out to be sweetgums. I'm a bit worried about the potting soil I put them in, though. All we have around here is sticky red clay and even broken up really well it doesn't work for potting plants. My dad's used it to (accidentally) kill at least three aloe vera plants. Not that it's made a dent in our aloe population.
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May 28, 2012 05:12
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Last summer my grandmother and I pulled up a maple seedling from one of her garden beds and I put it in a pot to see if it'd take. It did pretty well over the summer, a few big leaves and a few inches of woody growth. It's spent the winter inside with my father's menagerie of unkillable aloe plants (they just keep multiplying). Looking at it the other day, I noticed some powdery white stuff in the soil around its base.  What could this be and will it follow my little tree forever when it comes time to re-pot in the spring?The soil it's in currently is a mixture of crappy red clay from where we dug it up and whatever potting soil mix my father had on the porch. I will be replacing the current mix with something more suitable when I repot. I'll also hopefully be putting it in a giant teacup planter. Tiny tree, giant teacup.
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Feb 20, 2013 08:00
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