(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best live indoor house plants

Depends how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go.

A complete set of tools includes shears, wire cutters (the japanese kind, not the kind from home depot), knob cutter, jin pliers, concave cutters, leaf cutters, wire in various sizes, root rake, broom, etc.

In practice, you can get away with just shears for a while. The tools you need are determined by the kind of tree you have & work you plan on doing. If you just have a starter bonsai and want to maintain it, a set of shears is really all you need (and you probably need to leave them in the drawer for at least the first six months!).

• If you plan on taking the plunge into nursery stock or collecting, you’ll find a lot of the other tools helpful. At a minimum, I would definitely add the wire cutters, and concave cutters & knob cutters are pretty handy too. If you're going to get concave or knob cutters, do some reading on ways to use them properly first. You can really damage your tree with them if you don't know what you're doing.
  
  
• A root rake is also cheap and handy when repotting.
  
  
• A long pair of bonsai tweezers is useful for all kinds of things. The good ones have a spatula on the end that's useful for things like scraping off cut paste.
  
  
• Cut paste: the liquid latex kind, and the clay-type. Both are japanese imports, and totally worth every penny. They last forever so you won't be buying them all that often.
  
  
• A cheap set of sieves is useful if you want to mix your own soil.
  
  
• A long wooden chopstick - useful for all kinds of things, but particularly useful when repotting. I never repot without having one handy.
  
  You definitely do get what you pay for with things like shears and cutters. I have Japanese tools that I've been using for 20 years and they still work like the day I got them. I have a cheap Chinese-made concave cutter that I got a couple seasons ago that I already want to get rid of.
  
  Like with anything, prices go all the way from dirt cheap to "how much money do you have?" Best thing is to buy the best you can afford, consider japanese tools if you can afford them, and avoid just getting the cheapest possible set you can find.
  

I can't tell if your being serious here. JPN are the most stereotypical bonsai on the planet, obviously you have to be aware of that. Just type it into google. The first entire page of results.

1: Probably the bonsai most often seen by people are the juniper procumbens nana. They are commonly sold in malls, supermarkets, and department stores

2:When we think of a traditional bonsai and what it should look like, we think of a "Juniper Procumbens Nana."

3:Juniper Procumbens, aka Japanese Juniper, are what most people picture when they think of bonsai. This document is meant to describe them.

4: Juniperus procumbens 'Nana' is strongly indentified with the art of bonsai. ... of the trunk and branches captures the essence of bonsai

5: This dwarf Juniper from Japan is the most popular evergreen in the U.S. When we think of a traditional bonsai and what it should look like, we think of a Juniperus procumbens 'Nana'


I could go on for pages and pages but clearly you must see why i am having a hard time telling if your serious, just trying to get a rise, or are truly inexperienced, which isn't a bad thing, but if your inexperienced i would have thought you would have at least done a google search before making such a bold & incorrect statement like that.

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gag coloring book

touch screen gloves

hidden safe, book

sushi making kit

Funny ladle

Reusable zip lock bags, better than tupperware

dice, for how to choose dinner

bonsai tree

good luck!

Usually, the length is from the roots to the top of the stem, and doesn't measure in the twisty part or leaf section, but it can depend by seller. More honest, better quality ones at least do that from what I saw out there based on reviews.

Also, just reading there is a another variety of Dracaena we can use called Lotus Bamboo. Though it kind of looks like a long green dildo carrot.

https://smile.amazon.com/Jmbamboo-5-stem-Hydra-Bamboo-Design/dp/B011F3SFFM/ref=sr_1_2

Oh, yes! Sorry, I meant to post a link to the lava pebbles as well but forgot! I like the lava because it's porous and allows the soil underneath to "breath" and doesn't keep the soil wet for as long as regular pebbles do, for example. They also make the plant's colors really pop!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007P3X4XU/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_xPupnIVrqdefu

Pine bark fines are a specific thing. It's not "fine pine bark".
"Fines" refers to small particle size, i.e. it's not big chunks of shredded bark like for mulch, it's in smaller pieces.

Picture.
https://www.amazon.com/Quarts-Quarter-Inch-Pine-Fines/dp/B00GP8QXGQ

Picture.
https://www.midwest-trading.com/product/Southern-Pine-Bark-Fines-38

So go down there and look at this and see what the bits look like.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/4-qt-Pine-Bark-Fines-Mulch-Resealable-Bag-100536822/305719740


What are you growing?

I love this dish.

The penned Rosa dish from noodles and company.

Lucky Bamboo

My mother gave this to me years ago when I started uni. I still have it.

EDIT: Hold on, let me find the link on Amazon.

EDIT: I can't find any prime ones, but here's a good, not too bulky cheap one

They look fine, just add a root rake. I really like this one. https://www.amazon.com/Bonsai-Rake-Spatula-Robust-Durable/dp/B016MWOVQS/ref=sr_1_30?keywords=tian+bonsai&qid=1566270733&s=gateway&sr=8-30

I recently bought this plant and it was labeled as a "Money Tree". After googling the images and realizing it didn't really look like a money tree, I feel like it might be a ZZ plant (Zamioculcas). https://www.amazon.com/Hirts-Gardens-B000PYAGFU-Zamioculcas-zamiifolia-Easy/dp/B000PYAGFU

Is anyone able to help identify it?

Looks a bit like this

https://www.amazon.com/Brussels-Bonsai-Gensing-Grafted-Ficus/dp/B07H9SDRMS

But idk for sure

There's a huge greenhouse in Medina called Hirt's. They're a big seller on Amazon (apparently they don't ship things super well, but that's not a concern if you're picking it up.

http://hirts.com/contact-us/

And here's that Bonsai on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Mini-Fukien-Tea-Bonsai-Tree/dp/B000NPSJCI/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1468411454&sr=8-6&keywords=Fukien+Tea+tree+bonsai

I'd imagine it'd be cheaper without having to pay shipping and they might have some larger ones.

Like this? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K57KJK4/?tag=097-20&ascsubtag=v7_1_2i_4ch_3d0h_4_x01_-srt10- it's not a succulent but I found it in Amazon quickly.

It's not sarcasm or condescension I'm just disagreeing with you and telling you're wrong to believe this is a bonsai.

They are produced for the retail houseplant market - I see them all the time at the garden centre.

"all this information available" - all I've found are amateur writers on garbage sites like eHow - oh, and this:

• http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/bonsai/msg111655434903.html - where they point out it's not a bonsai...
  
  I can tell you categorically that these plants are only sold as bonsai by disreputable online stores - including your bonsai boy and their ilk. I bought a plant like this at my garden centre in a plastic pot for 99cents... Putting it in a bonsai pot does not make it a bonsai.
  
  These are bonsai... - they look like trees...

I found it on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Bonsai-Tree-Pot-Baby-Groot/dp/B07F1Z8H73 im on the fence about buying it.

There are quite a few varieties of palm that can be grown as bonsai plants. The ponytail palm is one that is nontoxic to cats and dogs, though there are probably other kinds as well if you don't like the look.

There's one on amazon. cost a lot more than in stores, but it's an option

i found a cheaper one but it's also cheaper in quality i guess

Amazon has a few options, but it seems this specific one I have sold out.

I was given this tree, this soil, and these pellets for my birthday recently. I live 10 feet away from a window at work and the idea was to keep the tree either next to my desk or on the window sill where it will be facing the east and be in sunlight from sunrise to about 3/4pm every day.

I have no idea how to get started, absolute no idea. This is what the tree looks like.