Going To College Soon.. Any Advice?

Kazuki

Ok so I'm a senior in high school right now and i will be going to college in the fall.. (yess i know quite some time to think) so Im basically left with a few options to do with my trees when i go away to college:

-Let them be and pray they survive
-Put them all in the ground and pray they survive
-Have club members baby sit them and pray they survive/pray i get them back
-give/sell them away(oh god the horror)

I just need a second opinion of what i should do.

Ive applied to
Cal Poly SLO, Cal Poly Pomona and UC Davis so I will be quite far away from home in either cases.(still haven't heard from them.)

maybe i should invest in a drip system..? and pray they survive

Thanks for any advice

Kazuki

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dbz12fan

Kazuki,
I have been stuck with the same situation. I am a few years behind you though. For me, I am getting a watering system, going to a college a few hours from home, and visiting every few weekends to checkup on the trees. Plus I will make sure my parents update me if a tree looks sick.

Since you are far away from your home, I think that it would be best if you get a watering system and have your parents check up on the trees and make sure they arent sick. Also have them clip off the new growth every few weeks. You will probably lose quite a few trees while you are in college though.

Whatever you decide, good luck!

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FredL

Kazuki, let me say first of all that if you've been admitted to either or both of the schools you mention, you're a mighty smart young feller and I doubt that any advice you receive here is going to improve the quality of your decision very much. Myself, I'd say any of the alternatives you've come up with seem pretty sensible to me, except for the last one. Maybe one decision for all the trees is not the right way to go, however, and a decision should be made for each individual tree.

Fred

GaryS

How many trees are you talking about?

I lived off campus in the mid 1970's and started my collection at college.

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heymikey(deceased)

Kazuki; Not knowing how many trees you have and how sensitive some might be to climatological conditions I offer the following options: (1) take those that you would most like to see larger or with thicker trunks and plant them in the ground at a parent's or friend's house (ideally where they would be automatically watered). You can fertilize and prune ocasionally on trips home. (2) try to arrange with a club member or other bonsai grower to care for the remainder of your collection in exchange for him/her obtaining free 1/3 or some other fraction or these trees (which ones this other person receives to be determined at end of care period to encourage optimum care of all). With option (1) I think you will be very satisfied with material development in the ground keeping in mind that some species such as tridents can grow so fast as to get out of hand. With option (2) finding a caretaker that is not too advanced that he/she is not interested in your offer yet is enthusiastic and reliable, that's the challenge. heyMikey!!

Bonsainut

Kazuki,
You're young, you have bonsai, you have your health, what do want an educashun fer anywho?

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contaxg2

Have you heard back from school yet? I graduated from Cal Poly, loved the area so much that I decided to continue to live down here. You'll be close to muranaka's nursery. Poly is a great school, btw I transferred from west valley college!

spoonman

yea id just connect one of those timed water systems, if you have the money. easy enough to make. or just give you parents instructions on how much and when to water.

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