VOLUNTEER Mulberry Bonsai?! - Yes please!!!

[@michaelteran3844]

I got a volunteer mulberry sapling that I'm turning into a bonsai but I put it in a pot and topped it last year. It's already dropped its leaves and I brought it in the house and it was in the house for maybe 2 months and it started budding again so I'm going to go ahead and veg it out indoors thru the rest of this winter into spring until fall. What I find neat is that once the leaves fall off you can leave it somewhere cold for a month or so then bring it back into vegetation much earlier indoors than in nature. Getting more time to veg give you more for training and learning your craft. Oh by the way this is my first attempt at bonsai. I have a lot of houseplants and I grow my own cannabis. Cannabis and garden vegetables is where it all started and I haven't looked back.

[@BackGardenBonsai]

Nice find. You gotta love those volunteers. Especially the species that come from no where. I’ve got a few myself, a gift from the bonsai gods.

[@nickybeingnicky]

"Bird dropped a.... mulberry fruit in my backyard, or wind, or idk" It was poop.

[@PoorMansBonsai]

Totally! hahahah! Or should I say...turdally. I'll leave now.

[@lwinland83]

Any updates?

[@Hy-Brasil]

like the majority of bonsai noobs my first one died - i was doing great taking care of it. it was NOT indoors. but we had a drought and i guess it got too dry....i felt terrible about it. mostly because i was a stupid noob who paid 20 bucks for a juniper that normally costs five dollars at walmart. but hey... no one told me any of this until after i bought it and started doing research! so.... i never did anything with the sad remains. just left them there as a reminder of how i wasted twenty dollars. but then a few weeks later i noticed a couple of weeds sprouting. i was about to yank them out of the pot when i looked closer.... it was THREE baby mulberries.... growing in the shadow of the dead juniper. so i guess the cosmic critters decided to have pity on me, i don't feel like the twenty was a waste because if i hadn't put the bonsai in that particular spot the seeds would have died. Junipers are cute but i'm actually a huge fan of mulberries. they have an interesting (and amusing) history, plus they make fruit that attracts wildlife.

[@PoorMansBonsai]

Sad but redemptive story! Yeah I totally know the sadness of accidentally killing bonsai. :( I've lost count of how many I've lost...but yeah I really like mulberries too! I've seen some amazing ones with really cool looking trunks before. Hoping this one survives!

[@bonsaimoldova]

I think it will be a great bonsai project - very nice material

[@gianaizeljavier167]

Can we have an update for this? 😭❤️

[@PoorMansBonsai]

Yes! Coming very soon! :)