Bonsai Nut

After a little over a month in the fridge, the kernels were ready, but today is July 11th. With my growing season usually stretching into October, what are the chances any of these will survive through winter with about 3 months of growth?

Looking for recommendations for places to buy seeds,

I purchased some seeds from a place called “tree seeds online” seemed to be legitimate. Has anyone had any experience with them?

Sheffield’s Seeds seems great! I’ve got a couple different conifers from them, JRP, Monterey Cypress, Keteleeria, western white pine

Not all of these are for bonsai, any ...

I received a black pine bonsai from a friend. This black pine seems to be seriously unhealthy. Is there any advice on whether it can be saved? If it can, how should I care for it?

While I would not consider these bonsai trees, they are miniature trees which I would really appreciate your expert help with. I was gifted three weeping figs from my mother before she passed away, so these trees are incredibly important to me.

While inspecting them, I noticed that it looks like the rope used to hold the braided trunks together on two of the plants was ...

As there's not much information on this species as bonsai, I thought I would start a thread.
I have seen few folk posting about Pinus armandii, but it seems nothing past the seeds part. I'm not much further ahead than that.

Some information from James E. Eckenwalder - Conifers of the World

Pinus armandii Franchet
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