Bonsai ^^
2025-04-26
Recently I was coming home from school and I saw that some chesnuts were growing near my house, and since I've wanted to grow a bonsai for some time I took one (not carefully enough and I didn't take the roots) and I put it in a glass jar where I already had a willow "cutting" (which wasn't doing very good).
Some days after that while coming home I saw a lot of chestnuts in another placer and so I took one this time with the conkers and the roots and took 2-3 little branches from other trees.
I am not going to put it in soil yet since I have only one small pot and it has another planta I want to gift to a friend and I am waiting until it grows a little bit more
I assume it will be alright some months just in water
2025-05-02
I took another two chestnuts:
First one: I pulled too rough and the root was even shorter than the first time
Second one: I pulled (this was one or two days after) this one with a little more care and I got the whole root, yay!
I removed the leaves from the two chestnuts with little roots since a I saw a video from a guy with a considerable number of chestnuts bonsais and he said that it's good to cut the leaves since they demand energy from the roots or whatever and it's better to cut them at the start, and like one leaf from one of them was starting to rot (or smth) anyways so maybe they would've become bald anyways.
That little branch with two little leaves is from a non-weeping willow, I really want it to grow roots because willow have small leaves and I read that although they are hard to kill but for the moment nothing is happening... Maybe I will try to get a willow again when they start to flower.
Non-bonsai
2025-05-02: Reduced image size due to having shitty wifi the other day and realising that 800KB of images in a website is UNACCEPTABLE and I needed to reduce it to 300KB (may reduce further in the future)