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Quote: Originally Posted by dubtaco Hi Joe, Forgive my newbie ignorance when it comes to bonsai, but this is beginner bonsai thread so here goes... Do you collect from private or BLM land, and is it legal to just dig those junipers up? I'm not going to turn you in, just wondering because I would like to go collecting Utah Junipers from BLM land. I have seen many that I think would make nice specimens near this spot where I go fly fishing. Could you write up a little tutorial about caring for a juniper after it is collected. You mentioned misting to foliage with water for 2 years and not over watering. Do you have a soil mixture that you have found works best, or do you use as much of the native soil as possible. I assume you use a container that fits the tree, but how much larger than the tree should the container be (height, width, length...). Sorry for all the questions, but I really want to try yamadori and would like to be successful.

Tell you what.. You tell me what weight fly rod to pack and what flies I should be tying and we can talk about your Yamadori experience..

All Jokes aside Kind of... I go collecting on private land that a club I belong to has the rights too so yes I do have a permit as if I get stopped by the cops then I can show them my permit

You can go through BLM or US forest or dept foresty and attain a permit. But they will ask you where what type and how many. Then they will charge you for a permit and the trees each branch works differently..

This is assuming that they approve of it..


Joe