Bonzai!!!

Mutt · May 19, 2009

Just a pic of a BM mom. sorta neglected her pruning for a bit.
She gets top dressed with compost and worm castings from my own bin when needed and a shot of big bloom or grow big if needs an extra kick which isn't often. Gave her a good root washing about a month ago and new compost/perlite to be happy again.
When i get the room gonna flower her in the bonzai pot :hubba: can grow any strain small i say

1" soil depth under t5 6500k tubes and some cfls @ 2800k. will do a root trim and post it up before flower

next plant is a Juicy Fruit x C99 I'm revegging. major PITA to grow small yield but excellent smoke. so saved her for a cross project see if i can make her a lil more tame for myself.
Planning on crossing a K2 male with a K2 female, C99, and BM. Find some phenos in there and back it to the k2 male for SnG see what happens

the beer can is 22 oz.

ozzydiodude · May 20, 2009

I pulled up a stump to watch. I have been reading up on doing a couple of bonzai mothers. Thank you for your great post on bonzai growing

eace:

Mutt · May 20, 2009

i'm horrible at grow journals...but will update when i remember

prob with being a heavy toker and a busy schedule. but will update and pic some of the oddball things i try out.

Mutt · May 25, 2009

Juicy Fruit x Cindy99 reveg. Takin off now

Only took 5 weeks

Reveggers are not good lookin are they :fid:

ShecallshimThor · May 25, 2009

5 weeks eh?
mine had like 20-30 shoots after 3

NYC_Diesel x Jack_Herer · May 25, 2009

Hi Mutt,
Great post, I am trying to get some banzai mothers going myself as my last few got way too unmanageable and large. Hope you don't mind me dropping in with a Q but I was curious what size pots you keep the banzai moms in, and how much of an impact this has on being able to keep them very small?
It's a technique I am not familiar with so I am trying to figure out how to keep them that size. Is it more of the way they are pruned and grown or does the container have an impact? I assume it does but I am curious how much. I keep having to cycle my mothers in and out with their clones and it would be much easier just to be able to keep a mother without cycling her.
Gracias

Mutt · May 25, 2009

5 weeks eh?
mine had like 20-30 shoots after 3

It does have a lot of sat in it

Sats known to be slow at a lot of things.
Have had some strains that were a PITA to clone. other's that wouldn't reveg.
Every strain is different.

Mutt · May 25, 2009

NYC_Diesel x Jack_Herer said:
Hi Mutt,
Great post, I am trying to get some banzai mothers going myself as my last few got way too unmanageable and large. Hope you don't mind me dropping in with a Q but I was curious what size pots you keep the banzai moms in, and how much of an impact this has on being able to keep them very small?
It's a technique I am not familiar with so I am trying to figure out how to keep them that size. Is it more of the way they are pruned and grown or does the container have an impact? I assume it does but I am curious how much.
Gracias

Shallow pots is a must. I work from clones never the seed start. I take a few cuttings shove the seed into flower. much easier to bonzai a clone IMO.
This particular mother is in a 1"d x 5" square bonazi pot. no drainage holes either but i use 100% organic medium and only get minimal salt buildup. Bout time it gets salted up its time to trim roots and rinse em off replace medium. But would highly recommend you use one with drainage holes.
mine is high stress trained, topping, taking numerous cuttings, breaking main stems. you can tie em too (LST)

Just google Bonsai. tons of how to's some on MJ you wouldn't expect to see a guide. If peeps can bonzai trees why not a weed.

Mutt · May 25, 2009

second pic is when i put the freshly rooted clone in. 1st pick is after some pruning and cuttings taken.
Hope this helps. I could have tied em down to get even more clone sites, but i was getting plenty from her for my size grow.

ShecallshimThor · May 26, 2009

didnt mean to put you or your baby down just suprised me to see so little growth
sorry

Mutt · May 26, 2009

ShecallshimThor said:
didnt mean to put you or your baby down just suprised me to see so little growth
sorry

No sweat.

This particular Hybrid JFxC99 was very difficult to keep happy from the start. The hardest from a bunch i got from a breeder friend in BC. But also turned out to be one of the best out of the group. The other one from same guy...i just couldn't flat handle the smoke way to intense for me. Juicy Fruit x Champagne. I can't describe how uppy it was even for a sat dom. I let that strain go. It almost felt like it was laced. but i grew it and knew i didn't lace it

, had reports of similar from others that grew it. most kept it and loved it, but they like there speed weed.

This JFxC99 is more tame but still speedy. Excellent day smoke. So def. worth the trouble for me

I never worry about yield or ease, effect and taste are everything to me

Mutt · Jun 8, 2009

Well here's a few shots of part of my grow. Got a Cindy in there, but have a few bonsai'd C99 clones in flower...all those in pic 1 are C99.

Got some other stuff goin small as well. I like seeing how small i can keep em LOL gives me something to do.

I shoved the c99 mom for seeding in couple weeks early to get a jump start on the K2 as it is a much much shorter lifecycle than the C99.
The Blue Mystic mom in a 1" deep pot is patiently awaiting for one of my K2's in veg to be a male. As well as the C99 in the 3 gallon pot, the JFxC99 reveg, and A K2 Female. Gonna make a couple of beans.

Gonna be Bx'n the F1 hybrid K2xC99 to the K2 male gonna try cubing it to make my own strain. "Cindy's Peaks" :hubba: So got a looong summer ahead of me.
Also have a Ducksfoot99x (ak-47/bubble berry) and a samba (stabalized K2xAfghan Orange) in veg as well. LOL I like variety

zipflip · Jun 11, 2009

i dug the whole mini look to ya mothers mutt and got to readin up on it all a bit an decided to do one myself for now. an if it pulls thru i'm gona do the other 3 im revegin the same.
only i dot know if im that sure bout divin into a 1inch deep pot yet tho for me.
im just startin to toy around wit them as tehy startin to show new growth now finally from the chop couple weeks ago.
the thing im still in question about is after a root trim/thinning and repot how much new root growth is expected an how quickly.
im assuming as soon as it gets bound in its current pot all i got do is pull her out trim her wig an slap her back in wit new soil in the same pot again...? in lamens sense anyway, no?
there pix in teh revegg link in my sig.
thanks for your subliminal inspiration on the bonzai thing

laterz

Mutt · Jun 11, 2009

im assuming as soon as it gets bound in its current pot all i got do is pull her out trim her wig an slap her back in wit new soil in the same pot again...? in lamens sense anyway, no?

well it will always be sorta bound. its when it gets severely bound you need to "trim its wig" as you said. ussually you can tell when its time. not much new growth yellowing no matter what ya do....tells ya about time to trim em back.
Good luck. its really not that hard

zipflip · Jun 11, 2009

ya i'm seein alot of the it seems harder than it looks wit growing. an when i actually do it i wonder y i stressed so much.

Mutt · Jun 18, 2009

gonna just grow her...see id i can do it without a root trim

and a partial flow room pic

thedonofchronic · Jun 18, 2009

:hubba:

Mutt · Jun 18, 2009

:48:

ozzydiodude · Jun 18, 2009

Mutt, How long can you grow a bonzai without trimming the roots in a 3.5 inch square by 1.5 inches deep?

Great looking plants

eace:

zipflip · Jun 18, 2009

lol i was just gonna ask him bout the same thing?

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