Bonsai Trees

[Letang Is The Truth]

does anyone have experience with these? i would like to procure one for my office, i feel like it would really increase my energy in here. i was wondering if anyone had recommendations on one that would be low maintenance and no natural light as there are no windows in my office

[count2infinity]

[cheesesteakwithegg]

I was re-gifted one of these in an office grab bag one year. I threw it away.

/csb

[shafnutz05]

[Juice]

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[Letang Is The Truth]

I really should have just PMed him

[DudeMan2766]

Very first thing I thought of

[Shyster]

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I’m not sure how it will do without direct sunlight, but you might want to track down a crassula gollum (do a Google image search on that name). It’s basically a mutant variant of a jade plant. I have one I purchased from http://www.gosucculent.com/, and in five years or so it’s grown to be around a foot high and looks quite tree-like. You can trim it to keep in in shape, and as crassulas grow readily from cuttings, so you can put the "trimmings" in soil and grow more plants. As a succulent it doesn’t need much water or complex care, so it's good for an office plant.

[mac5155]

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I’m not sure how it will do without direct sunlight, but you might want to track down a crassula gollum (do a Google image search on that name). It’s basically a mutant variant of a jade plant. I have one I purchased from http://www.gosucculent.com/, and in five years or so it’s grown to be around a foot high and looks quite tree-like. You can trim it to keep in in shape, and as crassulas grow readily from cuttings, so you can put the "trimmings" in soil and grow more plants. As a succulent it doesn’t need much water or complex care, so it's good for an office plant.

Don't they call these a Christmas Cactus?

[Letang Is The Truth]

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I’m not sure how it will do without direct sunlight, but you might want to track down a crassula gollum (do a Google image search on that name). It’s basically a mutant variant of a jade plant. I have one I purchased from http://www.gosucculent.com/, and in five years or so it’s grown to be around a foot high and looks quite tree-like. You can trim it to keep in in shape, and as crassulas grow readily from cuttings, so you can put the "trimmings" in soil and grow more plants. As a succulent it doesn’t need much water or complex care, so it's good for an office plant.

i was looking at this:



which is a Portulacaria afra, a dwarf jade. i just worry that the container it is in is somewhat small and i would have to re-plant. it is 6 years old

[Willie Kool]

In a very low light location, I'd consider some kind of shade terrarium with mosses, lichens, ferns, etc.

[Juice]

i have some sick bugs from work you can keep as pets on whatever you end up getting

[mac5155]

I don't know if our work has a policy on it or not, but I wouldn't bring a plant in anyway just as a courtesy to anyone that works around me that may have an allergy or something

[eddysnake]

I think you can get bird flu from bonsai tree

[Kaizer]

i had one, it never grew a smegging centimeter from its original size and ended up turning brown and dying.

[Rylan]

i had one, it never grew a smegging centimeter from its original size and ended up turning brown and dying.

Your chi must suck brah.

[Shyster]

I’m not sure how it will do without direct sunlight, but you might want to track down a crassula gollum (do a Google image search on that name). It’s basically a mutant variant of a jade plant. I have one I purchased from http://www.gosucculent.com/, and in five years or so it’s grown to be around a foot high and looks quite tree-like. You can trim it to keep in in shape, and as crassulas grow readily from cuttings, so you can put the "trimmings" in soil and grow more plants. As a succulent it doesn’t need much water or complex care, so it's good for an office plant.

Don't they call these a Christmas Cactus?

I don't think so. Christmas Cactus are plants from South America with long branches that look like leaves joined end-to-end. See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumbergera. Coincidentally, I have one in my office. This is its flowering season, and at the moment it has more than 10 flowers on it.

[bhaw]

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I’m not sure how it will do without direct sunlight, but you might want to track down a crassula gollum (do a Google image search on that name). It’s basically a mutant variant of a jade plant. I have one I purchased from http://www.gosucculent.com/, and in five years or so it’s grown to be around a foot high and looks quite tree-like. You can trim it to keep in in shape, and as crassulas grow readily from cuttings, so you can put the "trimmings" in soil and grow more plants. As a succulent it doesn’t need much water or complex care, so it's good for an office plant.

i was looking at this:



which is a Portulacaria afra, a dwarf jade. i just worry that the container it is in is somewhat small and i would have to re-plant. it is 6 years old

These are everywhere in phoenix. Pretty minimal upkeep.