Casuarina(agoho) before and after workshop

Here are two casuarinas, they are both yamadori planted in 2006 .

casuarina 1 before workshop



after


casuarina 2 before



after

Hi Pady
very beautiful trees with intriguing wabi-sabi aesthetics, especially the first tree. They both have awesome trunk movement and texture. The first tree looks more refined. What treatment do you give to the deadwood? In other forums I have come across the argument that deadwood on casuarina rots very easily. What is you opinion? Thanks for sharing.

Cosmos

Pabling,

Great trees. Good job!!

Kind regards, friend,

Jose

Hi Cosmos
The deadwood in these casuarinas are almost the same since I planted them in 2006, I just clean it with brush and apply lime sulphur every three months. It seems that the deadwood are well preserved.

Hi Jose,
We have just started working on my casuarinas this morning, they seem to be healthy to withstand the pressures of the workshop. I will try to post the others which we are going to work on this week end.
Cheers
Pabling

Howzit Pady,

Very nice work. We have a lot of casuarinas/Ironwood growing here on Maui. Just wish I had the time to go and collect it.

A Hui Hou,
-Tim

Hi all,
I like the first one, good job.
I'm new on this forum and I dream to have a Casuarina.There is some Casuarina in Guadeloupe in the Caribbean but I do not manage to grow them after the collect.

Do you have a secrets?

David.

Nice work , I love your furniture also.

very nice Pady. can you give some advise when collect Casuarina?.

Thank you,

Hi pongsatorn
I believe you can collect casuarina in you country anytime of the year. During this rainy season its even better,survival rate is much higher'.

Hi Smithy
Am glad you like it,
The furniture are made of molave, this wood is used for outdoor furnitures

Thank you very much

hi pongsatorn if you find any good casaurina up in chang mai post a picture , i have been looking for some with good trunks but cannot find in khon kaen . i have a thai friend in kk who is very good at bonsai and he says they are not easy to collect and many die. good luck john

john5555leonard wrote:hi pongsatorn if you find any good casaurina up in chang mai post a picture , i have been looking for some with good trunks but cannot find in khon kaen . i have a thai friend in kk who is very good at bonsai and he says they are not easy to collect and many die. good luck john

Hi John,

I'm not useto dig casaurina brfore as we know it is die easy. I have some bonsai friends at Hatyai province can fine some good casaurina, but thay don't know also about how to dig it.

pongsatorn.k wrote:

john5555leonard wrote:hi pongsatorn if you find any good casaurina up in chang mai post a picture , i have been looking for some with good trunks but cannot find in khon kaen . i have a thai friend in kk who is very good at bonsai and he says they are not easy to collect and many die. good luck john

Hi John,

I'm not useto dig casaurina brfore as we know it is die easy. I have some bonsai friends at Hatyai province can fine some good casaurina, but thay don't know also about how to dig it.

In Hatyai.Do you mean me?

help needed padychitan , do you have any advice on digging up and keeping alive caraurina regards john and bonsai thailand

very nice transformation

puwanath wrote:

In Hatyai.Do you mean me?

yes, also you Ohm.

Hi everyone
Here are some pics of the other casuarina

Before

Hi everyone
Here are some pics of the other casuarina

Before

Here are some usefull tips inyamadori casuarinas.

Re: Casuarina Equisetifolia (Cemara Udang or Mu Ma Huang)
cosmos on Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:53 pm

.Hi padychitan
Thanks for your reply. I tried to collect two yamadori but failed. I left the soil from the site I picked up the tree since I have read on Bonsai Focus and other books, that the roots of casuarina has a symbiotic relationship with a fungus and also have minute root nodules with bacteria that change atmospheric nitrogen into usuable nitrates. I thought that making a new mix for the yamadori would upset such associations and what you are telling me i.e. using river sand alone, would not be conducive to craeting such mutalisms. Can you pl elaborate on how you carry out your yamadori on such trees.

Thanks
Cosmos.
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Re: Casuarina Equisetifolia (Cemara Udang or Mu Ma Huang)
padychitan on Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:50 pm

.Hi Cosmos

I think that what you are telling about a "symbiotic relationship with a fungus and minute root nodules with bacteria etc." does not only apply to casuarinas but to all yamadori. It is a good practice to bring a portion of the soil where you dig the yamadori and mix it to your potting medium so the useful bacteria present in that soil could multiply in the new medium.The use of humic acid can help this usefull bacteria multiply.

I use volcanic cynder and course river sand as medium for my casuarinas for good draining. Casuarinas hate to be waterlogged.It has been our experience to leave some branchlets of collected casuarinas for better survival. Those that are totaly defoliated usualy dont suirvive.

Pabling

john5555leonard wrote:help needed padychitan , do you have any advice on digging up and keeping alive caraurina regards john and bonsai thailand

Hi John,
Sorry for my late reply, my internet provider had a problem with their tower so I was off the net for more than one week.

Digging of a casuarina yamadori is no different than digging any other yamadori, Its the rule of thumb that when digging yamadori, you should try to get as much roots as you can, try to preserve the moisture and plant it in a training pot the soonest you can.