Well, you can "save" the juniper by soaking the whole
plant until the rocky part gets a little soft (they
use Elmer's Glue or equivalent) Then carefully peel
off the rocks. Be ready to replace the rocks with a
bit of sand or soil.
To get proper cuttings off a bonsai, you have to let
it grow out so that it is not a good bonsai. I don't
think you should prune yours at all until it is
stable.
Kitsune Miko
--- Anthony Toft wrote:
I had posted a message on the IBC site and then read
that this was the
place to be 
Here is the message, I would appreciate any and all
responses, I'd really
like to take up the art as something to do when I
find some spare time
Newbie here, so please forgive my lack of education,
but...
Yesterday we bought a bonsai tree from costco here
in Orlando, after
reading about it (I was trying to find out how to
make cuttings for my
office) it would appear that we got a "Mallsai"
complete with stuck on
stones.
Having discovered this I have axed the 'trees in the
office' plan (at
least with this Juniper) and would instead like to
make little trees for
outside the house we move into within the next
couple of months (I figure
bonsai is less likely to cause damage during a
hurricane ). In the mean
time I need to keep it alive, can I just put it
outside in the existing
pot? Should I look into making cuttings at this
time? If so can I put them
in regular plant pots for the time being? My
mother-in-law is a ceramics
instructor so I will (hopefully) have a fairly ready
supply of pots when I
go visit her.
Also in furtherence to the 'office trees' project, I
think a weeping fig
would survive, does anyone know where in central
florida I could get one
at a reasonable price?
Thanks
Anthony
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