Go to another forum disillusioned you ask yourself why do they keep telling me this is not a bonsai and refer to this as a mallsai.
Creating bonsai from nursery stock.
There are many ways to create a bonsai tree such as growing from seed cutting back a tall well developed tree or air layering branches or even the trunk of and older tree but these take many years before you can even start training them into shape.
Nursery stock tried and true stock for bonsai.
My first tree nursery stock new to bonsai.
Nursery versus bonsai stock.
Jason goes over the techniques such as cleaning branch selection and pruning.
Spread roots evenly and fill the pot slowly with the bonsai soil.
Position the tree off centre in the pot about a third to the one side.
He discusses the thought process on designing the tree at each step and how to approach nursery stock.
I selected these trees because they showed some surface roots and the base of the tree showed some swelling.
Buying bonsai nursery stock is a fast way of propagating a tree and you can start right away with training it.
Growing bonsai from nursery stock prebonsai nursery stock are young garden plants also called prebonsai that sometimes have great qualities for bonsai purposes.
In this video jason goes over the step by step process for creating a bonsai from a 1 gallon juniper juniper procumbens nana nursery stock.
Found a good deal on a great nursery stock pre bonsai trident new member too maples.
How to select a nursery plant in order to create a bonsai.
In another article i might expand a little and share my thoughts on mallsai.
Great stock comes from where you find it there is no price or purchase location that will assure that any stock is of high quality.
Finally getting in to bonsai after years of interest.
Bonsai branch selection.
This article however deals with the question.
Instead it was created to show that quality bonsai can indeed be created from common nursery or garden center stock and that such sources of material should not be readily dismissed as a source for quality material.
Step one for repotting a pre bonsai olive from nursery material into bonsai training pot is to check where the main roots are located.
How do you make a bonsai from nursery stock.